The Warren Planning Board is hereby authorized to review and approve dimensional variances for properties undergoing review as a minor land-development or minor subdivision project. This process is to be known as Unified Development Review (UDR). UDR shall not be available for major land-development or major subdivision projects and UDR shall not be available for projects seeking the grant of a use variance.

(Amd. of 12-11-18)

An applicant shall apply for UDR by filing with the Planning Board's administrative officer an application for a dimensional variance along with an application for a minor land-development or minor subdivision project as part of the application materials for the preliminary plan stage of review. The administrative officer shall review the UDR application for completeness and for compliance with this section. The time period for the administrative officer to certify as complete or incomplete a UDR application shall be the same as the time period for certifying the accompanying application for a minor land development/subdivision project. The administrative officer's decision on a UDR application is appealable in the same manner as an appeal from any other decision of the administrative officer application.

(Amd. of 12-11-18)

A.

A public hearing on a UDR application shall be held prior to consideration of the preliminary plan by the Planning Board. Public notice of the hearing shall be given at least fourteen (14) days prior to the date of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation within the Town of Warren. Notice shall be sent to the applicant and to each owner within two hundred (200) feet of the perimeter of the area included in the subdivision and/or land-development project by certified mail, return receipt requested, not less than ten (10) days prior to the date of the hearing. Notice shall also be sent to any individual or entity holding a recorded conservation or preservation restriction on the property that is the subject of the application.

B.

Notice of the public hearing shall be sent by the administrative officer to the administrative officer of an adjacent municipality if: (1) The notice area extends into the adjacent municipality; or (2) The development site extends into the adjacent municipality; or (3) There is a potential for significant negative impact on the adjacent municipality. Additional notice may be required for a UDR public hearing as set forth in state law.

C.

The notice for the public hearing on the UDR application shall include the following information:

1.

The time and place of the hearing;

2.

The street address of the subject property, or if no street address is available, the distance from the nearest existing intersection in tenths of a mile; and

3.

Public notice shall indicate the specific dimensional variance(s) to be considered for the subdivision and/or land-development project.

(Amd. of 12-11-18)

The Planning Board shall have same authority as the Zoning Board to approve, approve with conditions, or deny a dimensional variance request filed as part of the UDR application. The Planning Board shall conditionally approve or deny the request(s) for the dimensional variance(s) before considering the preliminary plan application for the minor subdivision or minor land-development project. Approval of the dimensional variance(s) shall be conditioned upon approval of the final plan of the minor subdivision or land-development project. The Planning Board shall address the same findings of fact required to be addressed by the Zoning Board and shall produce and record a written decision in the same manner as the Zoning Board. The time periods by which the Planning Board must approve or deny applications for dimensional variance(s) for a UDR application shall be the same as the time periods by which the board must make a decision on the preliminary plan review stage of the subdivision or land-development project under review.

(Amd. of 12-11-18)

Appeal from the decision of the Planning Board may be taken to the Zoning Board sitting as the Board of Appeals, in the same manner as provided by law for appealing other decisions of the Planning Board.

(Amd. of 12-11-18)

APPENDIX A. PARCELS WITH USE RESTRICTIONS

APPENDIX B. ZONING FEE SCHEDULE