Board Holds Special Meeting for ‘Simple’ Project

The Rochester Planning Board on July 19 made good on its word to hold a special meeting to help Special Permit applicant Kristina Bacchiocchi of 428 Walnut Plain Road hold to her construction timeline to install a new parking area before she can construct the new addition to her house to open her daycare business.

During the previous meeting on July 12, Bacchiocchi got emotional when she learned that she could not begin construction on the addition until she had approval for the parking area from the Planning Board, which was expected to take a number of meetings before that would happen.

During this meeting, however, with all the requested information and engineering the board had asked for the week prior, Planning Board Chairman Arnold Johnson told Bacchiocchi that Town Planner Mary Crain would have a draft decision drawn up for the board to review and likely approve next Tuesday during the regularly scheduled Planning Board meeting.

“I think that we have everything that we asked for,” Johnson said. Board member Ben Bailey agreed. “Looks good,” said Bailey.

Planning Board member Gary Florindo said he had only one concern, which was keeping all stormwater from running off the property and down to the street. Bacchiocchi said she had faith that her engineer would not allow that to happen.

The board does not usually review a draft decision and approve it on the same night, said Johnson, “But in rare cases where we have a simple project like this, we’ve done it in the past … a couple times.”

The next meeting of the Rochester Planning Board is scheduled for July 26 at 7:00 pm at the Rochester Town Hall.

By Jean Perry

 

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