HANSON PLANNING BOARD
Minutes of Meeting of
DECEMBER 6, 2000
Members Present: Chairman Philip Lindquist
Vice Chairman David Harris
Gerard LeBlanc, Clerk
Joan DiLillo, Member
Members Absent: Gordon Coyle, Member
Others Present: Town Planner Noreen O’Toole
Administrative Assistant Barbara Ferguson
I. CALL TO ORDER - 7:35 p.m.
II. ACCEPTANCE OF MINUTES
Regular Meeting of November 29, 2000
Motion to accept the minutes of the Meeting of November 29, 2000: Gerard LeBlanc
Second: David Harris
Vote: 4-0
III. TOWN PLANNER REPORT
Master Plan Committee
Town Planner Noreen O’Toole said that no meetings of the Master Plan Committee are scheduled for the month of December. The next meeting will be in January.
Hanson Trails Committee
The next meeting of the Hanson Trails Committee has been scheduled for December 11 at 7:30 p.m., Ms. O’Toole said.
OCPC Transportation Committee
Ms. O’Toole said that the next meeting of the Old Colony Planning Council Transportation Committee has been scheduled for December 21 at 5:30 p.m.
Vision 2020
Ms. O’Toole said Visions 2020 will not be meeting until next year.
Other Business
Ms. O’Toole gave the Board an update on the Hemlock Hill, Cranberry Estates, and Woodbrook Lane subdivisions and paving at Hill and Hawthorne Streets. She said no work is planned at Hemlock Hills until spring, presented the board with a copy of a December 5 memo she sent to Highway Surveyor Richard Harris regarding a catch basin on Route 58 at the end of Cranberry Estates, and advised that at a meeting with Woodbrook developer Daniel Orwig it was agreed that the Board would be receiving a work schedule for the completion of the subdivision and a request for an extension of time. She said that the office has received numerous complaints from residents of Hawthorne Street regarding road paving related to an adequate access determination by the Board. Ms. O’Toole said that she would be meeting with the board’s engineer on the project, Land Planning, Inc. of Hanson, at the site on Thursday morning.
Ms. O’Toole reported that the In-Law Apartment Bylaw Study Committee will begin meeting on December 18. She said that she intends to schedule a meeting of the Zoning Bylaw Committee in January. In addition to a bylaw related to age 55 and older housing, she said, consideration should be given to the regulation of tattoo parlors as they will soon become legal in Massachusetts. Copies of recent articles in the Boston Globe and Lawrence Eagle-Tribune regarding tattoo parlors were distributed for the Board’s information.
IV. APPOINTMENTS
8:00 p.m. - Continued Public Hearing for Rye Hill Estates
Chairman Philip Lindquist opened the hearing and read a letter from John W. Delano and Associates, Inc. of Halifax requesting an extension in time for Planning Board action on Rye Hill Estates in order that the changes in the location of the roadway and detention basin requested by the Hanson Conservation Commission can be made.
Motion to continue the hearing until a date agreed upon with the engineer: Gerard LeBlanc
Second: David Harris
Vote: 4-0
8:30 p.m. - Public Hearing for 1248 & 1258 Whitman Street
Goscon, Inc. was advised that the public hearing for a 15-lot residential subdivision off Whitman Street could not be held because lists certified by the Hanson, Rockland, and Whitman Board of Assessors offices were not used to notify abutters and the Planning Boards in the six surrounding towns were not notified. The applicant argued that neither state law nor the Board’s rules and regulations required that surrounding towns be notified. Chairman Philip Lindquist said it has been the Board’s policy for over 2 years. The applicant requested that the hearing be continued with new certified lists from Hanson, Whitman, and Rockland compared to those complied by the applicant’s engineer, Grady Consulting of Kingston to see if there
were any discrepancies. In the interim, the applicant said the Planning Boards from the surrounding towns could also be notified by certified mail, but the Board could not be persuaded.
Motion that the applicant be required to advertise and notify abutters including the Planning Boards of surrounding communities from certified abutters’ lists obtained from the towns of Hanson, Rockland and Whitman: Gerard LeBlanc
Second: David Harris
Vote: 4-0
V. NEW BUSINESS
Discussion of Planning Board Budget for Fiscal 2002
Administrative Assistant Barbara Ferguson was asked to prepare a department budget for Fiscal 2002 that reflects a five percent increase in the expense line.
VII. ADJOURNMENT - 9:05 p.m.
Motion to adjourn: David Harris
Second: Gerard LeBlanc
Vote: 4-0
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