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February 25th, 2010
Planning Board meeting minutes
Members Present: Maggie, Steve Rose, Bridget and Steven Enoch
Meeting: 7:10
Agenda for the meeting:
- Elect a Planning Board chair (s)
- Read through the minutes from November, December and January
- KSA special permit application
- Barry Karson
- Meeting Minutes: November minutes were approved as written, December minutes were approved as written, and January minutes were approved as written.
- Board Chair: The board agreed that Steven Rose and Maggie will act as co-chairs. Maggie made the motion and Bridget seconded.
- KSA Special Permit application: KSA has submitted a special permit application to operate as a year round camp. The board wondered if the parking at KSA would be substantial should they hold a wedding or other event where cars would be parking for an extended period of time. If there was adequate parking was a major question. There needs to be one space for every three participants based on the maximum capacity of the building. The application stated that the population of visitors/guest will not exceed their maximum of 300 students at a time as such during summer camp. The board also discussed the fact that the abutters needed to be notified and pondered if the abutters would be bothered by noise, light or traffic. The board is going to decided if there needs to be a noise and light curfew. Bridget
and Steven Enoch felt that it was not right to impose a curfew when our bylaws don’t state that there is a curfew or noise decimals. The board decided that the noise level was not in their purview. If the road is in stable and safe condition for off season and winter weather and there is adequate parking then the special permit should be OK. The board expressed interest in talking with the representatives of KSA. Maggie is going to try to contact them to invite them to the first March meeting. Bridget will send Alan and Larry an email to confirm that a quorum will be present for the next meeting.
- Barry Karson: Mr. Karson was going to look into the conflict of interest issues involving his law firm representing multiple residents in town. The board has not heard back from him. Steven Rose is going to call Barry to discuss the upcoming caucuses.
- Mail opened
- Sign permit: The Bidwell house submitted a letter to the Select board that was passed onto the planning board regarding a sign on the corner of Main and Tyringham road. The board will get in touch and explain the process.
- Dock Permit application: The board received a dock permit application. This is not the boards prevue but it is required by the state to send all of the applications and plans to the board.
Adjourned: 8:45pm.
Submitted by Bridget Krans
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