CONSERVATION COMMISSION AGENDA 3/18/15 @ 12:30 PM
Site Visits 3/17 @ 12:30 PM
- NOI SE 12 - ???; TIM CARROLL FOR THE TOWN OF CHILMARK; 12:30 PM
30 Boathouse Rd. and 61 Basin Road; Maps 27.1 and 21 Lots 228, 230 and 1,3: Construct a series of floating docks approximately 120 feet long with an 8.5’ X 10’ platform and 40-foot long aluminum gangway. The system will be located on Menemsha Creek and require 2 greenheart and 7 additional steel spiles that will disturb approximately 21 sq. ft. of Land Under Waterbodies and Waterways. A 395 ft. long by 8 ft. wide section along the east edge of Basin Rd. leading to the public beach will be graded to provide a 5 ft.-wide pedestrian walking path. The path may be maintained with a seasonal boardwalk made of planks and rope to ease pedestrian use. An Approximate 800 sq. ft. area will be planted with Rosa Rugosa and/or beach grass to help
contain erosion along the section abutting Menemsha parking lot. The walkway is approximately 87 feet from Menemsha Basin.
- DISCUSSION ENFORCEMENT ORDER ISSUED 2/6/15 TO MATTHEW LICHTENBERG
AND LEONARD BLUM, TRUSTEES; THE PASTURE WAY REALTY TRUST; 14 Marjo’s Way; AP 27-2: While surveying the clearing and re-landscape plan for the Enforcement Order issued to Stephen Merkel a new area of clearing in the buffer zone of a Bordering Vegetated Wetland was identified on Map 27 Lot 3. The newly cleared area is approximately 4,280 sq. ft. all of which is within the 100-foot buffer zone.
- SUBDIVISION PLAN FRANK SICA AND JAMES AUSTIN; 86 and 100 Gosnold’s Way; Map
14 Lots 29.1 and 29.2: The owners are re-submitting this subdivision to the Planning Board to have the covenants removed. The Conservation Commission and Board of Health are asked to comment on the application. The lots are within NHESP Priority Habitats of Rare Species.
Review draft Regulation update: Section 6.05; Responsible Parties—see below.
Meeting Minutes 3/4/15.
- NEXT MEETING: Wed., April 1, 2015 @ 12:30 PM; Site Visits TBD.
Draft: 3/18/15
6.05 Responsible Parties
The current owner(s) of a property on which a violation has occurred:
- is the party responsible and therefore liable for any fines and/or legal action regardless of any contract with a second party to obtain necessary permits, perform work, or adhere to conditions of a permit; and
- must attend in person the initial hearing of the Conservation Commission in connection with the violation and any enforcement order.
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