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Planning Board meeting minutes 5/26/11
Members Present: Barry Karson, Alan Solomon, Bridget Krans, Larry Klein and Stephen Enoch
Meeting to order: 7:08
- Business from the public- Special permit request from Maricela Salas and Mary M. McGoff of 47 Old Beartown Road. The special permit is for a temporary Airstream Trailer. Alan felt that if they were building a home then we should approve their request. In the zoning bylaws there is a 12 month limit from the day the permit application is approved. The new home has not begun being constructed yet. Alan and Bridget agreed that the permit should not be issued because a building permit for the house has not been issued yet. Barry felt that if they could show that there was water and sewage disposal then they have the right to use a trailer. According to the zoning bylaws they are allowed for one year to use a trailer while a house is being built. At this time the planning board does not know of a
building permit for this property. It is the opinion of the planning board that no trailer should be permitted until a house has started construction. Bridget will write the finding and send it to Maggie for approval.
- Judy Bach property- The board received a letter from town Counsel regarding the Bach’s request for more time to build the road and access to the subdivision. Town Counsel felt that it was OK to give more time. The board has a choice to put the condition in such as no lots can be sold until the road is done or post a bond. The condition of not selling any lots until the driveway is done is already in the plan the board approved. The plan that was already approved expires on July 23rd. Stephen pointed out that if the plan expires and something in our bylaws have changed then we need to be responsible and make sure that the bylaws are being followed. The board agreed that they are not going to act on the plan until all of the board members have seen the previous plan that was submitted.
The board would also like to request the opinion of the other boards. Bridget will call David Hellman and let him know.
- EBI consulting submission of FCC 620- EBI consulting submitted materials regarding research they have been doing as well as designs for a cell tower as well as the placement of the cell tower. The packet that was submitted to the planning board was the submission packet that was submitted to the FCC. No request or application has been given to the planning board as of this meeting. They asked for comments from the board within 30 days. The letter was dated April 7, 2011. The board decided unanimously that they were not going to comment at this time.
- Cell towers- Larry has had contact with the engineer that is interested in putting up a tower on Mr. Bounouses property. He pointed out a section of the old bylaw that was brought into the new bylaw that states that all towers with in an 8 mile radius of Monterey have to be researched and a report has to be written as to whether or not they will have researched if a repeater would work or not on current existing towers. It is in Section 4. F9 paragraph two. Larry was unclear about this. The board thought that maybe the ZBA is able to waive certain requirements such as this.
- Open Mail- Minutes from BRPC
- Reports from the board- Larry did some research on the statute of the open meeting law. Paragraph D of section 18 of the Massachusetts open meeting bylaw states that the attorney general may offer ruling of remote participation. Provided that a quorum of the body including the chair is present and all members can be heard. Larry felt that this meant that we could request permission to have a conference call via a letter to the Attorney General. Barry stated that he would be happy to communicate with the Attorney General’s office and send them a letter.
Meeting adjourned: 8:09
Submitted by,
Bridget Krans
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