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Conservation Commission Agenda 05/18/16
CONSERVATION COMMISSION AGENDA 5/18/16 @ 12:30 PM
Site Visits May 17 @ 12:30 PM


  • CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING NOI SE 12 - 757; REID SILVA FOR                        12:30 PM
TOWN OF CHILMARK; Off Squibnocket Rd. and Squibnocket Farm Rd.; AP 35-1.30, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 20, 21, 22, 23:  Eligible Voters:  Sandy, Candy, Joan, Chris, Pam and Russell: Follow up to Jan. 20 meeting:  The Town would like to do the following managed retreat at Squibnocket Beach caused by natural erosion and the northward migration of the shoreline.  Remove the existing stone revetment and Town parking lot; relocate the parking lot farther north along Squibnocket Road and away from the shoreline; restore the current parking lot and revetment areas to their approximate natural state of a low dune -- including re-vegetation; relocate the skiff launch ramp farther west for better access to Squibnocket Pond.

  • CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING NOI SE 12 - 759; DANIEL PADIEN FOR             12:45 PM
SQUIBNOCKET      FARM, INC.; off Squibncoket Rd. and Squibnocket Farm Rd.; AP 35-1.30, 17.3, 17.4, 21, 22, 23:  Eligible Voters:  Sandy, Candy, Joan, Chris, Pam and Russell: Follow up to March 2 meeting:  The applicant would like to do the following managed retreat of the existing access road to the homeowner’s residences caused by natural erosion and the northward migration of the shoreline.  Construct a new access roadway originating at Squibnocket Road to the north and intersecting with Squibnocket Farm Road -- west of the current security gate.  A combination of a filled road will with turnouts will lead from Squibnocket Road and Squibnocket Farm Road and intersect with a raised causeway over the wetland resource areas.  The raised causeway will be modeled after the current Menemsha drive-on dock.  The existing buried utilities running underneath the current Town parking lot will be removed.  The new utility lines will run under the new filled road sections and through conduit located within the pre-cast concrete deck of the raised causeway.

  • PUBLIC HEARING NOI SE 12 - ???; GLENN PROVOST FOR THE OSPREY            12:50 PM RIDGE REALTY TRUST AND THE BLACKSMITH RIDGE REALTY TRUST; 14, 16 Sqibnocket Rd.; AP 35-17.1, 17.2:  Construct and maintain a vegetated berm that is approximately 8 feet above existing grade within the buffer zone of a Bordering Vegetated Wetland.  The closest activity is approximately 75 feet from the wetland edge.
 
  • PUBLIC HEARING NOI SE 12 - ???; REID SILVA FOR WILLAM BINGHAM   1:00 PM AND JOAN LAMACHIA; 21 Carroll Lane; AP 27.1-176:  Install and maintain a proposed septic system upgrade and expand and maintain an existing view channel within the buffer zones of a Bordering Vegetated Wetland draining into a Coastal Pond to the east and a salt marsh to the north and within the first 100 feet of the Riverfront Zone and buffer zone of a perennial stream.  
  • PUBLIC HEARING NOI SE 12 - ???; TIM CARROL FOR TOWN OF CHILMARK 1:15 PM
61 Basin Rd.; AP 21-1, 3:  Expand the limits of the Basin Road as it passes through the Menemsha Beach parking area by five feet and to create a 2,670 sq. ft. dirt parking lot for a bus turn around area adjacent and/to the North of the Comfort Station.  Approximately 4,160 sq. ft. of asphalt will be added along the east side of Basin Road and along the north side of the parking lot facing Vineyard Sound.  The new asphalt area is approximately 1096 ft. long and 5 feet wide.  The previously approved 395 ft. long seasonal boardwalk on the east side of Basin Road will need to be moved farther east of the additional paved area.  The boardwalk will be widened from 3 feet to 6 feet (est. 2,310 sq. ft.).  The dune fencing will be relocated as needed.  Approximately 800 sq. ft. area will be replanted with Rosa Rugosa and/or beach grass to help contain erosion along the section abutting Menemsha parking lot.  A total of approximately 800 sq. ft. of dune and 10,660 sq. ft. of land subject to flooding that includes a salt marsh buffer zone will be removed or disturbed.  

  • FOLLOW UP DISCUSSION DRAFT REGULATIONS:  Sections 1.04; 5.01.  Agree to a date and time for the full Commission to discuss this.
  • ADMINISTRATION:
        
        Discuss changing meeting and site visit times.  

Meeting Minutes 5/4/16.

Signatures:
Order of Conditions SE 12 - 757; Town of Chilmark; AP 35-1.30, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 20, 21, 22, 23
(if voted).
Order of Conditions SE 12 – 759; Squibnocket Farm, Inc.; AP 35-1.30, 17.3, 17.4, 21, 22, 23
               (if voted).
        Order of Conditions SE 12 - ???; Osprey and Blacksmith Ridge Rlty. Tr.; AP 35-17.1, 17.2 (if voted).
        Order of Conditions SE 12 - ???; Bingham, LaMachia; AP 27.1-176 (if voted).
        Order of Conditions SE 12 - ???; Town of Chilmark; AP 21-1, 3 (if voted).
                
  • NEXT MEETING:           Wed., June 1 @ 12:30 PM; Site Visits: May 31 @ 12:30 PM or,
            June 1 @ 11:45 AM?

Continued Public Hearing Fool’s High Tide; Local Bylaw Only; Eligible voters:  Sandy, Candy, Joan, Chris, Pam, Bob and Russell.

NOI George Sourati for George Sourati for Jack Englert; 31 Flanders Lane; AP 26-29:  Upgrade the sewage disposal system for the existing two dwellings.  A 2 inch pvc pressure pipe is proposed to run underneath a stream and wetland.  The closest excavation area is 25 feet from the wetland edge and 50 feet from a pond.