Preliminary Planning Board
Meeting Minutes - February 22, 2010
Minutes recorded by Sharon Rossi
Members present: GMorris, MSteere, MBorden, BMarshall, JFletcher, KO’Connell
7:05 pm Chandler PCC
Tim Chandler, Lynnette Chandler, and Dennis McKinney of New England Forestry Consultants are present for the PCC. GMorris explained the Rules of Order. This is an informal session, with the Board reviewing basic concepts of proposal and shall not bind the applicant or the Board.
Dennis McKinney presented for the Chandlers the following:
The property is located at the corner Gould Hill Road and Zephyr Lake Road. He also informed the Board that the property falls in Village and General Residence districts according to the town’s zoning map. The Chandlers would like to subdivide their property into 2 lots with the idea of constructing a new house on the new lot. There is a minimum of 250’ frontage for each lot.
There is an old gravel pit on the property, and it makes sense to use that location for the driveway into the new lot.
BMarshall commented that the Board’s previous concern was about the covenant that the current subdivision has to abide by. Tim Chandler said that the covenant will allow his request for a subdivision, and that he has letters from all the owners in subdivision affirming his request. The size of his property is 5.5 currently acres and the new subdivision would create two lots of approximately 2.5+ acres each. Dennis McKinney stated that Town regulations require that the property be 400’ from high water mark from Zephyr Lake. KO’Connell asked, “Where is the high water mark?” Mr. McKinney replied that he would figure that out.
KO’Connell also inquired about the questionable markings on original subdivision plat? No one knew what they were. So he wants to make sure wetlands, culverts, etc are marked on the new subdivision plat.
BMarshall is concerned that house would be in the gravel pit and questioned how stable that would be? KO’Connell commented that the pit hasn’t been used for 20 years or so. Lynette Chandler said that beyond the gravel pit, most of the land is flat and that the house would be built in that area.
KO’Connell said that the engineering plans for driveway should have the line of sights, drainage issues, etc clearly noted. Any wetlands and slopes need to show erosion control for when construction is being performed as the lake is near. BMarshall commented that this would be a minor subdivision and that the Board is empowered to make a decision the night it comes before the board. The PCC closed at 7:27 pm
GMorris presented other business to the Board.
7:30 pm Mail
1. Copy of cash receipt for Trosky Subdivision Fees.
2. Selectmen minutes for 1/28, 2/2, and 2/11, 2010.
3. A corrected copy of the voluntary merger for 783 Forest Rd Properties from Peter Davenport.
4. A copy of Wetlands and Non-sight Specific Permit #2009-02951 for Jennifer Fox, Sunset Lake Road for correcting inappropriate changes to wetlands
5. SWRPC Winter Meeting announcement at Papagallos Restaurant on 3/16/2010.
At 7:38 pm MSteere began reading the meeting minutes for February 8, 2010. The following corrections were made:
Line 8: added “pm”
Line 13: corrected “8” to “10”
Line 33: changed “client” to “SWRPC”
Line 34: changed “client” to “SWRPC”
Line 77: inserted “are” to read “these lots are for”
Line 78: added “estate purposes only”
Line 79: removed “means squat today” and added “maybe changed by future owners”
Line 81: removed “she” and added “DTuomala”
Line 84: inserted “the” to read “where the property is being accessed from”
Line 92: corrected “hydrogeology” to “hydrology”
Line 95: corrected sentence to read “will note buildable area on the plans”
Line 96: inserted “any further development outside the buildable area will require a wetlands survey and will have to go before the Planning Board”
Line 108: capitalized the word “Concluded”
Line 115: inserted “the” to read “will meet to get the CIP report done as”
Line 119: removed the word “be” to read “creation of back lots (E1e) shall have a”
Line 124: removed “second have to” phrase and inserted “a” to read “have to have a larger envelope”
Line 132: spelled last names of MSteere and JFletcher
At 8:01 pm MSteere motioned that the February 8, 2010 minutes be accepted as amended. MBorden seconded the motion. Unanimous ayes.
At 8:02pm JFletcher began reading the meeting minutes for February 10, 2010. The following corrections were made:
Line 13: inserted a comma after “notified” and lower cased a on the word “and” as “abutters were notified, and the meeting was properly noticed.”
Line 28 and 32: removed “ave” from “Dave” to read “DO’Hara”
Line 29: spelled out “Morris”
Line 36: inserted the word “of”, to read “114.84 feet of frontage”
Line 37: removed “as required for back lot”
Line 39: corrected the word “plans” to plats
Line 40: removed “the” to read “was approved when DPratt owned the property”
Line 41: corrected spelling of “science” to “scientist” to read “a wetlands scientist”
Line 50: corrected spelling of "prepare” to “prepared”
Line 76: removed the word “another” to read “copy of other state and federal permits”
Line 101: inserted comma after “asked,” removed the word “does” and inserted “if the board has”; to read “GMorris asked, ‘if the Board has any questions of the applicant.’”
Line 113: inserted the word “be”; to read “it would not be a big deal”
Line 117: removed "a”; to read “he wanted less soil impact”
Line 119: capitalized Opened
Line 120: inserted “direct”, to read; “state name and address and direct questions to the Board”
Line 125: added phrase “and proposed areas as shown” to read; “drainage for a system and proposed areas are shown”
Line 130: added phrase “for housing development”; to read; “concern about there being no erosion plan for housing development”
Line 131: added the word “driveway,” phrase to read; “I don’t know what the driveway culvert requirements are”
Line 132: removed “or the pond”
Line 135: spelled out “Morris”
Line 138: lower cased h on the word “he”
Line 143: inserted the word “to,” to phrase to read “Mr. Pratt was going to”
Line 145: added the phrase “which it did,” to read “ordinance/requirement, which it did”
Line 147 through 151: removed lines
Line 169: added the word “the,” to read “least impact to get into the lot”
Line 173: added the phrase “placed on the lot,” to read “driveway should be placed on the lot”
Line 176: changed the word “in” to “on,” to read “specifications need to be listed on plat”
Line 212: added period to end of sentence
Line 213: added “currently” to sentence, to read “encroachment to the wetlands as currently shown on the plat”
Line 215: added “upon the” sentence, to read “approval is also contingent upon the granting of Special Exception by the Board of Adjustment”
Line 225: spelled out point at the end of sentence
Line 236: spelled out Morris, O’Connell, Borden and Fletcher
At 8:53 pm, JFletcher motioned that the February 10, 2010 minutes be accepted as amended. MSteere seconded the motion. Unanimous ayes.
General discussion:
Mail: checklist/procedure/policy development to be brainstormed by MSteere, BMarshall and, MBorden. At March 8, 2010 meeting, results of session will be presented.
Meeting adjourned at 9:01 pm.
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