HANSON PLANNING BOARD
Minutes of the Meeting of
April 9, 2007
I. CALL TO ORDER
Chairman Philip Lindquist called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m.
Members Present: Philip Lindquist, Chairman
Joan DiLillo, Vice Chairman
David Nagle, Clerk
Gordon Coyle, Member
Richard Flynn, Member
Others Present: Town Planner Noreen O’Toole
Administrative Assistant Barbara Ferguson
II. ACCEPTANCE OF MINUTES
Acceptance of Minutes of Meeting of March 19, 2007
Motion to accept the minutes of the meeting of March 19, 2007: Joan DiLillo
Second: Richard Flynn
Vote: 3-0 (Gordon Coyle and David Nagle not present for vote)
III. TOWN PLANNER’S REPORT
Master Plan Committee
Town Planner Noreen O’Toole told the Board that she and Administrative Assistant Barbara Ferguson have edited the Master Plan up to the Circulation component. Old Colony Planning Council is enlarging the maps to 11 x 17, she said. When completed, she said, the booklets will be double sided with fold-out maps.
Hanson Trails Committee
Joan DiLillo, who represents the Board on the Trails Committee, said that Crooker Place now has a gate and it is hoped that barriers can be installed to the right hand side of the gate to prevent dumping.
Zoning Bylaw Committee
Ms. O’Toole told the Board that the Zoning Bylaw Committee would be meeting on Monday, April 30, 2007 at 7 p.m.
Old Colony Planning Council Joint Transportation Committee
Ms. O’Toole told the Board that the Old Colony Planning Council Joint Transportation Committee would be meeting in Brockton on Thursday, April 12, 2007 at noon.
IV. ZONING BOARD HEARINGS
Application of Kevin & Mari Watson for a special permit to allow for the construction of a 28 ft. x 32 ft. in-law apartment to existing home at 47 Sandy Lane, Assessors Map 32, Lot 29A.
COMMENT: Board defers to Board of Appeals but wants to know where entrance to in-law apartment is located.
Application of Sean Downey for site plan approval to allow the operation of an indoor batting cage with related signage at 23 Commercial Waye, Unit 7, Hanson Assessors Map 59, Lot 17-7.
COMMENT: Board defers to Board of Appeals
V. APPOINTMENTS
Form A/ANR
Elm Street
The Board reviewed a Plan of Land, dated March 20, 2007, prepared by Land Planning, Inc. of Hanson for the Hanson Rod & Gun Club. The plan creates a 7.556 acre non-buildable lot from Lot 4, Assessors Map 36 which is to be combined with land of the Hanson Rod & Gun Club as well as a 2.881 acre lot with an existing house and the required frontage on Elm Street. The plan is a redivision of Lot 4-1 and 4-2 as shown on Plan No. 245 of 2005. The applicant was represented by Bernard Munro of Land Planning, Inc. who presented the Board with a letter from property owner Deborah Zella authorizing him to act in her behalf.
Motion to approve the Plan of Land as presented: David Nagle
Second: Joan DiLillo
Vote: 5-0
Form A/ANR
Crescent Street
The Board reviewed a Plan of Land, dated March 30, 2007, prepared by Grady Consulting, LLC of Kingston and Colonial Land Surveying, Co., Inc. of Hanover, for D&R Realty Trust of Rockland. The plan creates a 30,141 square foot lot with 150 of frontage on Crescent Street by adding 614 square feet of back land from Lot 27-2, Assessors Map 79 on Roller Coaster Road to the new lot. It also adds 1,439 square feet from Lot 27-2 to Lot 27E to give it a total acreage of 30,164 square feet. Lot 27E has 159 feet of frontage on Crescent Street. The applicant was represented by Rick Grady of Grady Consulting.
Motion to approve the Plan of Land as presented: Gordon Coyle
Second: Richard Flynn
Vote: 5-0
Alden Way
Construction Site Inspection, Merrill Associates
Letter from Highway Surveyor
Chairman Philip Lindquist read an April 2, 2007 letter from Highway Surveyor Richard Harris indicating that he inspected a sinkhole in front of the 30 Alden Way home of Stephen Regan on March 31, 2007. Town Planner Noreen O’Toole said that Planning Board has also gone to the site. Mr. Regan showed the Board some photographs.
Ms. O’Toole said that the Board had been advised by town counsel to have a review engineer do an inspection and then to write a letter to the developer outlining the problems in the subdivision with a copy of any reports from the review engineer enclosed.
Board members received a six-page site inspection report dated April 4, 2007 from Merrill Associates of Hanover relative to inspections performed on March 28 and April 4, 2007. The report noted problems with a street sign, a light post, catch basins, gas gates, sidewalks, concrete bounds, drainage structures, and drainage basins.
The sink holes could have occurred, according to Peter Palmieri of Merrill Associates, either because of improper compaction or high ground water. He estimated that 75 percent of the structures need to be fixed.
Kevin Paquette of 251 Gray Lane said that he physically went into the catch basins and found them to be improperly constructed. Every basin is filling up with sand, the risers are wrong, there is no mortar and they are all collapsing, he said.
Mr. Palmieri said that problems with catch basins are included in his report. He said the developer should be told to submit to the Planning Board, in writing, proposed solutions to all of the deficiencies identified in his three site inspection reports. Chairman Lindquist asked Mr. Palmieri to add a statement with more definitive language relative to the condition of the catch basins. Mr. Palmieri said that he would submit a supplemental report with a general comment on the possible causes of specific problems.
Mr. Paquette asked about the detention basins, and Mr. Palmieri replied that the basins on Lot 6 and 14 are in the ground water. Mr. Paquette said that they are not constructed according to the plans submitted and are causing flooding in the woods.
It was agreed that Alden Way would be placed on the agenda of the next meeting which will be posted for 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 to give Town Planner Noreen O’Toole, who was going on vacation, sufficient time to prepare for the meeting.
Collamore Estates
Sub-Committee Meeting With Developer
Follow-up Letter to Developer
Town Planner Noreen O’Toole advised Collamore Estates residents in attendance that she, Chairman Philip Lindquist and Planning Board member Gordon Coyle had met with developer William Konish for over an hour on April 4, 2007 to discuss the situation of water coming up through the roadway. She read the minutes taken of that meeting and a letter sent the same day to Mr. Konish reviewing the items discussed and reminded him that he agreed to call the Planning Board office with a suggested date for the work to be done.
The items discussed, she noted, in addition to water bubbling through the roadway from approximately Station 12+50 (Lot 12) to Station 15+00 (Lot 11), were the status of the french drain that was installed during the construction of the subdivision, the possibility of the installation of a private house foundation drain in this french drain or into the drainage trench, and the unwillingness of the Town to support a takeover of the bond for completion of the subdivision by the Planning Board.
Peter Huska, whose home was constructed on Lot 12, denied that the water problem was the result of the construction of a private house foundation drain. Mr. Huska said Mr. Konish told him the pipe was crushed during loam removal.
The residents asked why the street lights had been turned off, and Ms. O’Toole said that Mr. Konish had paid for the lights for 10 years but had recently had them turned off in the belief that the town would be taking over his bond. She said that the light at Whitman Street was going to be turned on and the town would be paying for it.
Board members agreed that the issues relating to Collamore Estates would be revisited at their next meeting on April 25, 2007 at 8:30 p.m.
VI. ADJOURNMENT
Motion to adjourn: David Nagle
Second: Joan DiLillo
Vote: 5-0
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