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January 21, 2022
South Burlington Development Review Board
C/O Ms. Marla Keene, Development Review Planner
City of South Burlington
180 Market Street
South Burlington, VT 05403
Re: Conditional Use Review; Existing Lot 17 Hillside At O’Brien Farm
Dear Board Members:
The Development Review Board issued Decision SD-20-16 on November 12, 2020. This Preliminary Plat
Decision reviewed a proposed development in the Hillside at O’Brien Farm Master Plan. Specifically, part of that
application included the proposed development of apartment dwellings located on Lot 13 and Lot 15 within the
Hillside Master Plan. In that Preliminary Plat review, the Board discussed and advised the Applicant that the
additional parking required to facilitate the construction on Lot 13 and Lot 15, could be located on the adjacent
lands outside of the Master Plan, with the issuance of a Conditional Use Permit. The Board memorialized the
necessity for this conditional use permit in Condition 13 of the Preliminary Plat decision.
The Applicant has now filed Final Plat in furtherance of the proposed Development on Lot 13 and Lot 15.
That Final Plat includes the construction of parking facilities on Lot 17. As requested, the Applicant is applying
for a conditional use to grant this parking, and requesting this conditional use application be reviewed
simultaneously with the Final Plat for Lot 13 and Lot 15. The Project proposes the construction of the
commercial parking facility on Lot 17 as outlined at Sheet C-7 attached to this application for your review.
These lands are used in this project to facilitate the construction of parking associated with Lot 13 and
Lot 15 of the Hillside Master Plan. As discussed extensively at Preliminary Plat, the Master Plan area was
designed to accommodate 458 dwelling units. Subsequent to that Master Plan issuing, the Inclusionary
Ordinance was passed, providing for additional density in exchange for the required inclusionary housing. While
we have been able to site the buildings required to construct the full density of the Project (including the
inclusionary housing and the bonus market rate units), this has necessitated the use of some additional adjacent
land to facilitate surface parking. The land involved in that additional parking remains the same as the land
involved at Preliminary Plat.
The Applicant has proposed this parking as a conditional use, commercial parking facility, which is
allowed in the C1-LR zoning district where it is located. The reason that this land is not simply incorporated into
Lot 13, is simply to allow for the underlying density of the land to remain available to the Eastview planned unit
development. We believe (and plans provided to the Board at Preliminary Plat for Eastview demonstrate), that
the density of these parking lands and other remaining lands can be accommodated in future phases, along with
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the parking now proposed. We appreciate the flexibility of the Board in directing this approach which has
enabled us to both meet the inclusionary requirement and to truly realize the offset density provided, which
would not be possible if the underlying density was unable to be constructed.
Review criterion for the Conditional Use mirror those of the Site Plan and PUD sections of the LDR. The
Applicant has therefore not addressed those criteria again in this cover letter. The Applicant believes that if the
Board approves the development in the Final Plat for Lot 13 and Lot 15, it can also approve the Conditional Use
for necessary parking associated with the Project. All review of all criteria in the Final Plat include the lands in
Lot 17, and therefore all review criteria are addressed in that application.
We appreciate the Board’s review of our Project and look forward to discussing the details with you in
the near term. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Andrew Gill, Director of Development