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To: <br />Prom: <br />Date; <br />Planning Commission <br />Michael P. Gaffron, Assistant Zoning Administrator <br />June 11, 1985 <br />Subject #933 Ned Butterfield, 3745 Watertown Road - <br />Conditional Use Permit <br />Zoning District - RR-IA 5-Acre <br />Application - Construct a new 40' x 100* Greenhouse <br />List of Exhibits <br />Exhibit A <br />Exhibit B <br />Exhibit C <br />Exhibit D <br />Exhibit E <br />Exhibit F <br />Exhibit G <br />Exhibit H <br />Application <br />Plat Map <br />Property Owners List <br />Proposal <br />Layout of Existing and proposed Structures <br />19f)8 CUP for "Non-Conforming" Use <br />1970 Survey of Building Locations <br />Septic System Layout (Approximate) <br />Mr. Ned Butterfield is requesting to add a 40' x 100' greenhouse <br />south of his existing greenhouses on this property. The property now <br />contains a residential house owned and lived in by George Butterfield, <br />and 7 greenhouses plus a service building. The property is <br />approximately 4.6 acres in area excluding the road, in the RR-IA 5- <br />acre zone. <br />The current greenhouse use is regulated by a conditional use <br />permit granted by the City on September 9, 1968 (Exhibit F). The non­ <br />conformity recognized at that time appears to be the wholesale and <br />retail sale of flowers. Greenhouses are permitted as a conditional <br />use in the RR-IA district. You might ask the applicant whether a <br />retail sales outlet still exists on the property. <br />Because greenhouses are permitted as a conditional use, if the <br />wholesale or retail sale of flowers on the property does not increase <br />due to the addition of a greenhouse, this proposed project would not <br />appear to expand the non-conforming use. <br />Do you have any thoughts about the mixed use of the property, <br />i.e. residential home plus commercial greenhouses? Does it make any <br />difference that George Butterfield, the owner of the property, is not <br />the applicant? Ho likely does have some interest in the business. If <br />he did not live there, and the house was rented out to someone un­ <br />related to the business, would you have a different opinion regarding <br />the use? If the house was not there, would you still consider the <br />conditional use as appropriate; i.e. the greenhouse operation as the <br />defined principal use of the property? These questions don't neces­ <br />sarily relate directly to the current application, but are long-term <br />considerations. <br />1