GCC Meeting Minutes
Aug. 21, 2008
3rd Floor Meeting Room
Attendance: Carl Shreder, John Bell, Mike Birmingham, Paul Nelson, Charles Waters, Tom Howland, Steve Przyjemski, and Sharon Munro.
Signing:
- Bills
MOTION to pay the bills. Paul/Tom all/unam
- OoC for 540 North Street
- CoC for 6 Hart Circle
- CoC for 101 Lakeshore Drive
- Ext. Permit (OoC) for Blueberry Lane
All forms were signed
Approval:
- Meeting minutes for: 6/26, 7/10 and 8/7. No acceptance – resend to Com for review.
Discussion:
- Rosemary parcel
- Bylaw/Regs. review
Hearings:
8-10 Pine Plain Road
Attendance: Atty. Gary Sacriter; Rich Williams of Hayes Engineering
Rich Williams, Engineer – I have met with the PB regarding the turn around and we did receive an approval on the relocation of the driveway.
Paul Nelson, GCC – I don’t believe we have those plans.
Engineer – I’m sorry I thought you had received them.
Steve Przyjemski, Agent – Sharon, did we get anything from them?
Sharon Munro, Assist. Agent – No only a small version that had a note stating that the plans are with the Planning Board.
Steve Przyjemski, Agent – It does look like a dug channel there. The 3rd party review did not address the channel. They only confirmed the wetland line.
Carl Shreder, GCC – It is still a crossing. That is the issue.
Paul Nelson, GCC – It would depend on the classification of this “channel”. Topology on the plan indicates that this ‘channel’ flows down hill away from the wetlands – which would indicate that it is not an intermittent stream flowing into the wetlands.
Mike Birmingham, GCC – So, this would be more of a manmade finger, then. That does make it interesting on the flow.
Paul Nelson, GCC – Yes, it does not seem to move beyond the trenched area.
Steve Przyjemski, Agent – the biggest issues to address here was the turnaround and the mitigation.
Carl Shreder, GCC – So, this should be all set then.
Tom Howland, GCC – Where are the stone bounds?
Rich Williams, Engineer – Shows plan where markers are indicated on the plan.
Steve Przyjemski, Agent – So, is the issue the wetland crossing.
Charles Waters, GCC – Well, if I remember right this was resolved.
Charles Waters, GCC – The question is rather we have the plans and you say we have the plan?
Rich Williams, Engineer – I apologize I thought you had the plans.
Carl Shreder, GCC – When do you plan to move forward?
Gary Sacriter, Atty. - We certainly don’t have a design on the house yet so we are any hurry. However we would like to get all obstacles out of the way early.
John Bell, GCC – So, the concern would be when you will do the work because of the sensitivity of the area dependant on the time of year.
Charles Waters, GCC – So, Steve how do you feel about the plan?
Steve Przyjemski, Agent – I don’t like the wetland crossing but other wise they have worked with us everything else.
Carl Shreder, GCC – We do need to have the plans.
Steve Przyjemski, Agent – We can put this on the next meeting and the applicant doesn’t have to be here for the Com to officially approve the plan.
Carl Shreder, GCC – If all looks good it will only take a moment to approve the plan.
MOTION to cont hearing to Sept. 4th @ 7:15pm. Charles/John B. all/unam
10 Martel Way/Searle Street Rear
Steve Przyjemski, Agent – The applicant has requested a continuation. We haven’t gotten an official plan, yet. So, I have a PDF on file and I will send this out to all of you to review.
They have more information now and they need to put together a better plan. This is why they are continuing this and we will get a plan together before then.
MOTION to cont hearing to Sept 4th @ 7:35pm Charles/ John B. all/unam
10 Searle Street
Dean Chongris – I intend on purchasing this property from Mr. Bussing and will be sitting in on this for Mr. Bussing.
Carl Shreder, GCC – has Mr. Bussing given you permission to do this?
Charles Waters, GCC – So, do we have this in writing?
Dean Chongris – No, but I can have that for you Monday, first thing.
Steve Przyjemski, Agent – Gave recap on the current situation on this case.
Paul Nelson, GCC – The selectmen have the authorization to make the decision on the purchase of land within the context of a case. This is with my referencing the MACC manual regulations. We can approve this and put in the OoC of the transfer of property.
Carl Shreder, GCC – So, we should do this through an OoC to make sure it is followed through.
Charles Waters, GCC – But accepting the donation isn’t up to us as it is out of our hands.
Paul Nelson, GCC – In the MACC manual we have the ability to accept the land with the approval of the Selectmen.
Charles Waters, GCC – K & P have given us municipality advice.
Carl Shreder, GCC – I would like to see the regulations on the decisions from K & P.
Charles Waters, GCC – We are looking at a situation where we would be giving the applicant a OoC without knowing if the applicant may not make good on this whole decision.
Paul Nelson, GCC – You can include specific stipulations in the order.
Charles Waters, GCC – in a situation like this makes it very difficult to work with the applicant on mitigation.
Paul Nelson, GCC – Absolutely, this is why we are here is to acquire land whenever possible. This is what we do.
Paul Nelson, GCC – I propose we issue an OoC with conditions which allow recourse after the decision at Town Meeting and other conditions to work with the applicant.
Charles Waters, GCC – The worst case scenario: we issue the OoC and the Town doesn’t want to accept the land. Then what?
Dean Chongris – Would a CR on the property be an alternative? The first line item would be to execute the deed.
Dean Chongris – We could have two separate deeds for the Park & Rec. and the Con Com with the connection of the OoC connected to the Con Com deed and perhaps a CR.
Charles Waters, GCC – I haven’t heard anything that is workable, yet. We need more information on the DOR rule.
Paul Nelson, GCC – It doesn’t matter what they (Town Council) want to do. We can still move forward on our end of this situation.
Charles Waters, GCC – I don’t feel comfortable moving forward with an OoC until the process is complete.
Carl Shreder, GCC – We need to do some research on this to understand how to resolve this problem.
Steve Przyjemski, Agent – I will draft some conditions and work with everyone.
MOTION to cont. hearing to Sept. 4th @ 8:00pm Tom/Mike all/unam
Charles Waters left for the night.
275 Central Street
Attending: John Macintosh
Steve Przyjemski, Agent – This pool is proposed at 85’ where 75’ is required.
Carl Shreder, GCC – I would like to make sure that this pool is not drained in the surrounding area preventing any issues with chemicals being discharged into a resource area.
John Macintosh – Absolutely, the filter is sea salt filtration anyway. It is a fiber glass pool with concrete surrounding it.
Paul Nelson, GCC – Steve how do you feel about this?
Steve Przyjemski, Agent – I think there is some potential erosion with this but that we can work with. We can make some conditions: silt fence, drain away from resources, and notification before work starts.
MOTION to issue a Negative Determination with conditions: silt fence installation, drain pool away from resources and notification before work starts. John B. /Paul all/unam
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