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Consultants Information

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Mailing Address

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Applicant Information

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Description of Current Use:

Project Information

Proposed Use:

Will You Be Digging in the City Street?

Are You Increasing the Building Footprint?

Will there be Modifications to the Interior of the Building?

Are You Building a New Driveway?

Will there be an Increase in the # of Bedrooms?

Is the Grade of the Site Changing?

Are You Modifying an Existing Driveway?

Will there be an Increase in the # of Bathrooms?

Do You Need Water and Sewer Allocation?

Are You Increasing the Building Height?

If so, by how many?

Do You Need a New Sewer Connection?

Do You Need a New Water Connection?

Which Unit(s) is/are Being Renovated or Modified?

Are the # of Units Provided Above Increasing or Decreasing?

Miscellaneous Questions

Will You Be Digging in the Right of Way?

How Many Units (dwelling and/or Commercial) are in the Building?

Will There be Any Modifications to the Exterior of the Building?

Please provide an overview about any proposed utility easements.

Please provide an overview relating to utility lines of the proposed subdivision, including electric, telephone and cable.

Subdivisions (Appendix B)

Please provide an overview relating to the sewage disposal infrastructure of the proposed subdivision.

Please provide an overview about any exacavation and grading relating to the proposed subdivision, including proposed fill, embankments, subgrade, and side slopes.

Please provide an overview relating to storm drainage of the proposed subdivision.

Please explain how the proposed subdivision complies with fire protection standards (e.g. street width, access, radii, etc.)

Please provide an overview relating to the water infrastructure of the proposed subdivision.

Please provide an overview about any proposed open space or recreation areas.

Please provide an overview about any proposed site preservation or landscaping proposals (include an overview of existing features, any natural cover existing, erosion and sediment control strategies, and existing and proposed landscaping).

Please provide an overview about any proposed outdoor lighting, which includes, sidewalk, driveways, parking areas, loading and unloading areas, principal entryways.

Please provide an overview of the existing street network and any proposed streets that are planned as part of the subdivision (i.e. arrangement, topography, intersections, street jogs, street names, street signs, cul-de-sac, access, streets, sidewalk).

Are any waivers or variances requested? If so, please explain.

Please provide an overview about the proposed lot layout.

Please provide an overview about the proposed pedestrain circulation patterns and proposed easements.

Date of action subject of appeal (e.g. when the permit was issuance, when the decision was made, etc.)

Please provide an overview that you believe the relief requested is proper under the circumstances (reference any applicable regulations from the City's zoning bylaws).

Appeals (24 V.S.A. § 4469(b))

Please note that in providing your rationale on why the appeal is being filed, providing supporting documentation on why the Zoning Administrator should NOT have come to the decision subject to the appeal will be helpful when presenting your position to the Development Review Board. Additionally specific references to the City's Land Use Development Regulations will be helpful, as well as providing reasons to the Board about why the decision was made incorrectly.

Please provide the rational for why the appeal is being filed

Please outline the relief you are seeking should you prevail on your appeal request.

Relationship to the offending decision (e.g. abutting landowner, nearby neighbor, State, municipality, etc.)

Please reference the specific regulations relating to the City's zoning bylaws that apply to the appeal.

Please explain how the proposed project will not be detrimental to the public welfare.

Please explain how the property has unique physical circumstances or conditions (e.g. irregulatiry, narrowness, lot size or shape, topographical, or other phyiscal conditions) and that the hardship is due to these conditions.

Please explain how the unique phyiscal circumstances are prevent the property to be developed in strict conformance with the City's zoning regulations, thus necessitating the variance for reasonable use of the property.

Variances (24 V.S.A. § 4469(a))

Please explain how the proposed project will not reduce access to existing or potential renewable energy resources.

Please explain how you, the applicant, are not created the unnecessary hardship.

Please explain how the proposed project will not alter the essential character of the neighborhood or underlying zoning district.

Please explain how the proposed project will not substantially or permanently impair the use or development of the adjacent property.

Does the proposed variance represent the smallest reduction to accomplish the proposed project? Please explain.

Please explain how the proposed project is not detrimental to the existing development and uses in the surrounding neighborhood.

Uses Not Anticipated (§ 31-414)

Please explain how the proposed project is of the same general character as permitted uses in the underlying zoning district.

Please explain how the proposed project is not detrimental to the existing development and uses in the underlying zoning district.

Please explain how the proposed project will impact existing or potential renewable energy resources.

Please explain how the proposed project will impact traffic on roads and highways in the vicinity of the project area.

Please explain how the proposed project will impact the existing and/or planned community facilities (e.g. roads, highways, infrastructure, etc.).

Please explain how the proposed project will impact the character of the area affected.

Conditional Use Review (§ 31-208)

Does the dimensional waiver represent the smallest reduction to accomplish the proposed project? Please explain

Please explain how the proposed project will impact public health and safety, and the provisions of public utility services.

Waiver of Dimensional Standards Questions (§ 31-411)

Please explain how the proposed project will impact the following: quality or condition of existing water supplies, wastewater treatment, or stormwater conveyance and treatment systems.

Please advise if the proposed project will result in any shading or shadows on adjacent properties.

Please explain how the proposed project will not impact the character of the surrounding neighborhood.

Please explain how the proposed project will impact traffic safety and traffic circulation.

Please explain how the proposed project will impact drainage patterns on and off site.

Please advise how the proposed project will or will not impact traffic access, circulation patterns, and parking.

Please explain how the proposed project conforms with existing development in the surrounding nieghborhood, as well existing and/or proposed uses in the surrounding neighborhood.

Please advise how the proposed project will impact any existing and/or proposed renewable energy resources.

Please advise of any buffering between any of the adjacent properties will be installed.

Please advise if you are proposing any landscaping and screening on the subject property.

Site Plan Review Questions (§ 31-210)

Please advise of any proposed exterior lighting that will be installed.

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If yes, then by signing this application, you are certifying that you are authorized to submit this application and that the information contained within this application is true and complete to the best of my knowledge. If no, then please have the property owner fill out the Landowner Authorization Form by clicking HERE and then upload it as an attachment. Once uploaded, and upon signing below, you as the Applicant, are certifying that you are then authorized to submit this application and that the information contained within this application is true and complete to the best of my knowledge.

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Kindly attach the following required documents:

Existing Site Plan.
Proposed Site Plan.
Existing Elevations.
Proposed Elevations.
Existing Floor Plans.
Proposed Floor Plans.
Parking Plan (If applicable).
Landowner Authorization Form (If applicable).

Are you the property owner of the subject property?

Application Fee

Attachments

Certification