Board OKs office building

JACKSON - Planning Board members have voted 7-0 to approve an application that proposed the construction of an office building on South Cooks Bridge Road near Bennetts Mills Road.

The building was approved at the board's May 7 meeting.

Planning Board attorney Gregory P. McGuckin said the approval includes several conditions, including the installation of a fence with the details to be agreed upon by George C. Limite, owner of the adjoining property, and Douglas Klee, the board's engineer, and provided that the fence cannot cause a variance condition. The fence cannot be more than 6 feet high.

There will be no garbage pickup before 7 a.m. and the building must be reduced from the planned 10,200 square feet to 10,000 square feet, which means two parking spaces will be placed back on the plan since no loading zone will be required.

There will be landscaping along the front property line, but not in the sight triangle, McGuckin said.

The issue of how the office building may impact on Jackson's state Council on Affordable Housing obligation is to be determined at the time of approval and not at the time of the issuance of the certificate of occupancy, unless a court decides otherwise.

The building's signs cannot state that it is a medical office building even though it may include medical offices. The building is to be considered a general office building.

The applicant will comply with all landscape suggestions and any new sign changes must come back to the Planning Board with a new application for site plan approval.

Before voting on the application, board Chairman Kenneth Bressi commended the board and the applicant's attorney, Ray Shea, for working so well together on this application. Bressi and board members Blanche Krubner, George McKay, Eileen Tobasco, Daniel Berke, William Cook and Todd Porter voted in favor of approving the application.