CONSERVATION COMMISSION AGENDA 1/7/15 @ 12:30 PM
Site Visits 1/6 @ 12:00 PM
- NOI Reid Silva for Shirley Feibleman; SE 12 – 725; off State Rd./Access 12:30 PM
to Quitsa Pond; AP 33-107, 108: Conduct routine maintenance on an existing timber-frame boathouse within Land Subject to Coastal Storm Flowage.
- RFD Gene Bergeron for Gordon Bunting; 3 Marjo’s Way; AP 27-9: 12:40 PM
This is in response to an Enforcement Order issued for clearing done within the 100-foot buffer zone of the Menemsha Pond shoreline. The applicant would like to stabilize the first 25 feet of land from the pond shoreline by adding a few additional rows of Rosa Rugosa (approximately 6 feet deep) to the existing Rosa Rugosa that is closer to the shoreline; periodically cut invasive Phragmites; maintain and periodically mow the existing re-planted lawn of Cape Cod seed mix and little blue stem. No fertilizers will be used. The closest point of the activity is approximately 25 feet from the edge of the pond.
- NOI Fred Fournier of Landscope Landscaping for Leonard Bell; SE 12 – 726 12:45 PM
11 East Lane; AP 32-72: Prune native vegetation along the southwest corner of the property to a four-foot undulating height to improve the water view. The project is within the 100-foot buffer zone of a Bordering Vegetated Wetland. The closest activity is 40 feet from the wetland edge.
- Postponed from Dec. 17, 2014; NOI SE 12 - 727; Reid Silva for Brian R. Kenney; 12:50 PM
26 Harbor Hill Road; AP 27.1-107: Reconfigure and existing parking area, construct associated retaining walls, re-route the water line and walking path and complete finished landscape plantings within the 100-foot buffer zone of a coastal bank. The closest activity is approximately 55 feet from the top of the bank.
- Discussion Zach Wiesner; SE 12 – 690; Boston Hill Rd.; AP 30-76:
An Order of Conditions was issued in May 2013 for a driveway and buried utilities for an undeveloped, 4-acre lot. The original utilities plan assumed the line for the rest of Boston Hill Road could be used. Josh does not have access to that power line. He would like to run the buried utilities from an existing pole on the lot that is 35 feet from a wetland edge. The DEP’s 10/24/14 amended Regulations state this is exempt as a minor activity in the buffer zone (CMR 10.02.2.b.2). The Town’s Bylaw Regulations are more stringent. This is not deemed to be minor activity in a buffer zone as defined in the newly adopted 1/15/14 RFD policy.
Is this an inconsequential change to the Order of Conditions or, shall the hearing be re-opened? Separately, shall we add the new RFD policy to the possible updates given the DEP’s new position and definitions of exempt activities in a wetland buffer zone?
Minutes 12/17/14.
Signatures:
Order of Conditions SE 12 – 725; Feibelman; AP 33-107, 108 (if voted).
Determination of Applicability Bunting; AP 27-9 (if voted).
Order of Conditions SE 12 – 726 Bell; AP 32-72 (if voted).
Order of Conditions Kenney; SE 12 – 727; AP 27.1-107 (if voted).
- NEXT MEETING: Wed., January 21, 2015 @ 12:30 PM;
Site Visits January 20 @ 12:30 PM.
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