Application Contents
Sec. 17.4. Application Contents.
Every site plan submitted in accordance with this article shall include the following data, details and supporting plans. Plans must be prepared and signed by registered engineers, architects, land surveyors or landscape architects, as appropriate. The number of pages submitted should depend upon the proposal's size and complexity. All of the requirements must be met in each plan, with notations explaining the reasons for any omissions. Ten (10) copies of the application, plans and materials must be submitted, unless the proposed project requires a Special-Use Permit or Use Variance in which twenty (20) applications must be submitted.
(1) Name and address of the owner(s), name and addresses of applicant(s) (if different from owner), names and addresses of professionals, date, north point, locus and scale.
(2) Boundary of the entire tract and any adjacent or contiguous parcels in the same ownership and total acreage encompassed thereby.
(3) Any existing water courses, wetlands, railroad, street rights-of-way, utility lines, easements, public open spaces, permanent buildings, structures, permanent easements, natural, cultural, historic and archaeological resources including cemeteries or burial grounds or features and municipal boundary lines within 500 feet of the tract.
(4) Plan drawings:
(a) Scale shall be one inch equals 50 feet or other suitable scale as determined by the Administrative Officer.
(b) When more than one (1) sheet is required, a cover sheet drawn to suitable scale shall show the whole site and indicate match lines for each page of the plan.
(c) Plan will be drawn on sheets no greater than 40 36 inches long by 24 28 inches wide. A margin of two inches on the left and top sides and one inch on the right and bottom sides shall be left around each sheet. Every final plat shall have a space, at least three inches wide and two inches high at the lower left-hand corner of the plan for the Board's approval stamp.
(5) All building setback lines, easements and rights-of-way. Location and use of all existing and proposed buildings and structures in the development.
(6) Detail of adjacent properties (abutters) and public ways as will relate to the subject premises, to the neighborhood and to the street pattern.
(7) Existing and proposed sewers, water mains, culverts, and other underground facilities and utilities within the tract, indicating pipe sizes, grates, manholes, and location.
(8) Existing and proposed contours at intervals of no greater than two (2) feet.
(9) Building dimensions indicating exterior of building design and proposed landscaping. No smaller than 1/8" = 1'. Architectural drawings for all buildings, including plans, sections, and exterior elevations. (Architectural rendering may be required and should include such items as materials, color, door and window size and locations, roof and cornice lines, and other major design elements.)
(10) Landscape plan at the same scale of the site plan, showing limits of work, existing tree lines site furnishings, all proposed landscape features, improvements including planting areas with size and type of stock for each shrub or tree. All landscape plans shall be stamped by a Landscape Architect. (11.) Erosion and sediment control plan (containing all materials as identified in Section 18.13)
(12) A map showing the proposed circulation patterns, including present and proposed locations, design for ingress, egress, parking, road system, acceleration and deceleration lanes, traffic signs, pavement stripping and markings and pedestrian circulation.
(13) Location, arrangement and dimensions of truck loading and unloading spaces and docks; how the building will be serviced.
(14) Construction completion date; the phases, if any to be followed in the construction of the development.
(15) Location, height, materials of walls, fences and plantings specific for screening purposes.
(16) Location, size, height and orientation of all signs and exterior lighting on building facades and elsewhere on property.
(17) Text of Provisions to restrict uses of the property or to establish an association of merchants or property owners by means of lease provisions, covenants or other legal documents the text of such provisions shall be provided.
(18) All necessary State or Federal permits shall be submitted as part of the Final submission package. Applications involving a Special-Use Permit or Use Variance shall also submit all other materials specific to their particular request as specified in the Zoning Ordinance. A filing fee of one hundred ($100) dollars for structures or uses 5,000 square feet or less; three hundred ($300) dollars for structures or uses 5,000-20,000 square feet; and five hundred ($500) dollars for structures or uses over 20,000 square feet. Additionally, the Planning Board, in its discretion, may retain independent assistance, reviews, consultations, tests and analyses regarding any aspect of or issue related to the application or related to its review of the proposed development, and all such fees, costs and expenses shall be borne by the applicant. A retainer fund paid prior to the retention of such consultants, or experts, or professionals, may be required in the discretion of the Planning Board. In any event, the applicant shall pay all such invoices within seven days, the prior payment of which shall be a condition of any approvals by the Planning Board. Such assistance may include, but not be limited to, the review of overall building and site design, site engineering including drainage, and traffic impacts, evaluation of landscaping, site amenities, environmental, engineering and architectural review. The need for such review shall be at the discretion of the Planning Board. Amounts paid by the applicant shall not exceed actual costs incurred by the Planning Board. Meeting costs, including but not limited to, advertising and abutter notification, shall also be borne by the applicant, as applicable.