Orleans Conservation Commission
Work Meeting Nauset Room July 14, 2009
8:30 a.m. Call to Order
Changes and Approval of Sea Call Farm Supporters Contract.
Patty Crow is presenting.
Discussion
Richard Cryer 52 Willie Atwood Road
Request to construct a shed approximately 65’ to 3 freshwater wetlands, 0’ to the top of a coastal bank, and 15’ to the 10-foot-contour representing the Cape Cod Bay ACEC.
Certificates of Compliance
Peter Feldman (2006) 8 Tides End Lane
COC request for an Order for renovations and decks was amended for a septic upgrade and conditioned on a Planting Plan. The septic system has a COC with the BOH. An As-Built Plan has been submitted showing minor changes in the rock wall landward of the house, and a modification of the driveway shape. The driveway is now shell rather than the approved pavement. A major effort was done to remove invasive species and replant with natives. There are still areas wider than 4’ covered with mulch.
Charles Woodward (1989) 17 Lucy’s Lane
COC request for a septic upgrade and small additions, porch, and deck is in compliance with the BOH and built as shown on the Site Plan according to Ryder and Wilcox.
Charles Woodward (1992) 17 Lucy’s Lane
COC request for a dock. The dock is built as shown on the License according to Ryder and Wilcox.
Administrative Reviews
Underhill/Lavoie 6 Skymeadow Drive
Replace old cement paver walks with dry-laid bluestone. Replace foundation plantings with new design. Remove 9 trees surrounding the dwelling that are too close to the house. This lot has many other trees. Install a section of organic lawn that will not be irrigated on the landward side of the dwelling along the drive, and a small section near the garage. Plant bare areas remaining from invasive species removal for the COC with Itea, amsonia, and maidenhair fern, and the area by the post-and-rail fence on the seaward side of the dwelling with sweet fern and fothergilla. This area has been opened for a view that they would like to maintain by pruning down the native shrubs slightly to 6’, pruning out the young trees, and minor pruning of suckering on the oaks. They would like to mow the understory on the side of the lot in the Spring
and Fall to promote native grass growth. There is good native grass here now.
Friends of Crystal Lake (Jonathan Stark) Town Landings at Crystal Lake
They would like to put up signs at both Town Landings that read “Protect Our Lake Please Do Not Feed the Waterfowl” and “No Internal Combustion Motors”. They would like to put 2 in the parking lot at the swimming beach and 1 near the Mutt Mitt dispenser at the fishing landing.
Ann Fleck Henderson 13 Mizzentop Lane
She would like to have cut down 60 trees in the buffer to a Coastal Bank. Part of the cutting is to open an area around an apple tree; the other is for a view-cutting to the top of the bank. They would also like to limb several oaks for the view- cutting. Many of these trees are small. She is cutting most of the trees in her buffer. The family donated property to the OCT. The adjacent lot is owned by the OCT and is well-treed.
Mary Louise Voller 18 Sage’s Way
This proposal was continued from last week.
Proposed pumping and abandonment of a septic tank and a leaching pit between 15’ and 45’ to the top of a coastal bank; installation of piping and a new
2000-gallon septic tank and a pump chamber within 65-100’ of the top of the coastal bank and within 95’ to a freshwater wetland. There is perched water in the test holes for the leaching system that is greater than 100’ to the freshwater wetland and the coastal bank. This will be a 7-bedroom system. The Order to approve this dwelling was for 3-bedrooms. There is also another 3-bedroom dwelling on this lot.
Julie and Chris Schwachenwald 23 Beginners Lane
The shed that would require a variance and Notice of Intent has been removed from the AR heard last week. The request is now to replace a 6’-high wooden pool fence in the same location. Information on non-toxic wood products was submitted. This pool was built in 1987. A Notice of Intent was filed but the Order was never issued. The fence was not shown on the Plan for the Notice. This work is within the buffer to a vernal pool.
John Sommers 7&8 South Little Bay Road
Cut down two large oaks at the southwest corner of the property, landward of the dwellings, at the neighbor’s request. There is no coastal bank or ACEC delineation to the south of this property. The project may be just within the buffer to the coastal bank and outside the ACEC.
Edward and Natalie Bagdonas 54 Beach Road
This AR was filed at our request for vegetation restoration within 100’ to a freshwater wetland. They have submitted a Site Plan showing the existing trees and brushy areas at the perimeter of the property. They request to restore the ground layer with native seed mixes, low bush blueberry, and lupine in selected areas, and the shrub layer with new shrubs and a small tree. They listed the proposed work seasonally. This summer they would like to remove invasive species including bittersweet and multifora rose and also poison ivy. They would like to transfer mulch to the 4’-wide path area through the site. In the fall they request to remove a pile of boards that was an old shed and a large pine leaning toward the house, and to plant the shrubs and a small tree. In late fall or early spring they request to install the seed mixes,
including site preparation and watering.
Proposed Policy
Policy to pay small bills for the Community Gardens.
Chairman’s Business
Approval of the Minutes from the Hearing/Work Meeting on July 7, 2009.
Other Member’s Business
Administrator’s Business
Site Visits
Notices of Intent
Gerald & Carolyn Mulligan 16 Ewing Drive
by Ryder & Wilcox, Inc. Assessor’s Map 93, Parcel 17. Proposed gabion & fiber roll toe protection, including bank reconfiguration with plantings, gravel driveway reconfiguration & expansion, & landscape plantings. Work will occur on a Coastal Bank, Coastal Beach, Rocky
Inter-tidal Shores, Land Subject to Coastal Storm Flowage, & within the Pleasant Bay ACEC.
James Corley & Sally Everett 152 Namequoit Road
by Ryder & Wilcox, Inc. Assessor’s Map 70, Parcel 40. Proposed construction of an addition on an existing dwelling; construction of a detached garage; & gravel driveway construction. Work will occur within 100’ of Land Subject to Coastal Storm Flowage, & within the Pleasant Bay ACEC.
Seppala/Weber 21 Brewster Cross Road
by J.C. Ellis Design Co., Inc. Assessor’s Map 33, Parcel 93. Proposed construction of a building, a portion of a driveway, & a catch basin. Work will occur within 100’ of a Bordering Vegetated Wetland.
Wildt/Kinnane 8 Alden Road, Units 1 & 4
by J.C. Ellis Design Co., Inc. Assessor’s Map 21, Parcels 67-1 & 67-4. Proposed septic system upgrade. Work will occur within the 100’ buffer zone to an Isolated Freshwater Wetland.
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