Kris Engstrom, owner of In Full Bloom, met with the Shelburne Development Review Board (DRB) to apply for design review, site plan amendment, and conditional use approval for her business at 5657 Shelburne Road in the Village Residential Zoning and Village Design Review Overlay Districts.

She has been in business for 28 years. The business is expanding, with the help of her daughter, and there is a need to enlarge the production and storage area to the rear of the building.

The retail area will remain the same as will the exterior lighting, Engstrom told the board.

A neighbor, Dennis Webster, said Engstrom has done a nice job with a property that previously had been neglected.

The request was approved by the board.

Airport reconfiguration

Mike Burke, Engineer for Krebs and Lansing Consulting Engineers, Inc., returned to discuss the application of Ray and Barbara Magee for sketch plan approval of property at 144 Air Park Road in the Rural Zoning District. The MaGees own the Shelburne Airport, which includes their place of residence.

Burke said even though the airport is owned privately by the MaGees, it is used by the general public. He said while the MaGees want to sell the airport eventually, they plan to keep a five-acre lot around their residence and want to see the airport continue to operate. The application was classified as a major subdivision.

Board chair Peter Gibbs asked if there wasn't some other way to configure the required five-acre lot so that a part of it would not consist of a long narrow strip of land running beside the airstrip. The odd configuration was made so that the zoning regulation of five acres is met and the property containing the hangars and storage areas for the airport operation would not be impinged upon by the MaGee residential property.

The sketch plan was approved with the condition the access road be assigned to one of the two lots.

Tractor Supply application

Dereck Woolridge of Primax Properties made application on behalf of owner Ernest C. Hoechner and Joseph Alosa to get Preliminary Plan approval for properties in the Mixed Use Zone District on Shelburne Road.

The applicant seeks to transfer 1.97 acres from a previously developed parcel at 3640 Shelburne Road to an undeveloped parcel at 2009 Shelburne Road.

Also the applicant asks Preliminary Plan approval for a PUD-C (Planned Unit Development-Commercial) at the above two addresses which would include erection of a "Tractor Supply" retail business building at 2009 Shelburne Road.

Included are plans for 73 parking spots including four handicapped spaces, an outdoor display area of 20,000 square feet, one loading dock at the rear of the proposed building, plus a pedestrian walk to the building entrance at the south side of the building and a bicycle rack.

Discharge of wastewater will go into a swale around the perimeter of the property and into a pipe on a pond on the property and then into a pipe that runs into and along Bay Road. Lighting values will not change. Landscaping will be in the form of grouped trees and shrubs, especially at the rear of the property.

The building itself, according to Dennis Webster, will be of indestructible masonry of an earth brown color and stand 7-feet high. Two feet above the masonry will be a series of opaque glass windows. "We are focusing on receiving the most light from the east and the south," Webster explained. The main entrance will be at the south side of the building. One loading ramp will be used and made of black metal. Total lot coverage is 48.45 percent.

Vice Chair Mark Sammut said the board would like more details and a plan to enclose a dumpster.

Anna Palmer said "We'd like to hear from the neighbors regarding storm water runoff, a garbage enclosure, and the footage of the northeast elevation.

The board voted to continue the application pending a March 3 site visit.

Wrong site

Snyder Custom Homes owner Chris Snyder appeared before the DRB for approval of a Final Plan Amendment to a previously approved subdivision to the building envelope on Lot 1.The application proposes modifications to that building envelope. The property is on Sutton Farms Drive in the Rural Zoning District.

Snyder acknowledged the residence being erected at the site is 30 feet too far east of the agreed-upon Lot 1 boundary line.

The board planned a site visit and the application was continued to the March 3 meeting.