Wellfleet Planning Board
Minutes of Meeting and Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Town Hall Hearing Room, 7:30 p.m.
Present: Griswold Draz, Barbara E. Gray, Ronald Harper, Olga Kahn, Gerald Parent, Alfred Pickard; Rex Peterson, Assistant Town Administrator
Regrets: R. Dennis O’Connell
Vice Chair Gerald Parent opened the public hearing at 7:35 p.m.
Public Hearing Road Name Change – Steele Rd. to Palmer Lane
Mr. & Mrs. Bartlett came forward to explain their reasons for requesting the name change. Gray moved to approve the road name change to Palmer Rd. There was no second. Pickard moved to not approve the road name change. Harper seconded. Gray said she wanted to hear the reasons for denying the change. Pickard said maps identify the road as Steele Rd. Harper said the road if renamed would still be difficult to find. The Bartletts wanted to know if their $200 road name change fee would be returned to them. The advertising costs will be deducted. The motion to deny the road change carried 5-1.
Pickard moved to grant the refund of the fee minus Planning Board expenses. Draz seconded, and the motion carried 6-0.
The hearing closed at 8:05 p.m. and the regular meeting began.
Sign Bylaw Discussion
Draz suggested revisiting the bylaws to see what could be done to revise the sign bylaw in the future. The Board discussed the temporary sign issue that the bylaw was meant to address. State Highway locations, banners, Town-owned property, commercial signs, and tag sale/bake sale signs were all identified as obstacles. Pickard suggested having the Recreation Department and SPAT get involved in sign bylaw revision.
Size bylaws in R1 & R2 Districts
Draz distributed scatter charts of all the R1 and R2 properties according to lot size and net living area. He suggested studying the charts with the thoughts of establishing site coverage bylaws. The Board considered the difference between building on a vacant lot and doing a tear-down/rebuild. They discussed special permits, variances, setbacks, a multi-unit development in Easton, developments of significant impact, site plan review possibilities, and commercial site plan review. Draz reviewed some of his suggested definition changes for zoning bylaws.
Zoning Changes for Water System
The Planning Board would be interested in meeting with the Board of Health & Water Commissioners.
Mail
Parent informed the Board of a recent ZBA decision in the mail file.
Minutes of 4/15/09
Pickard moved to approve the amended minutes of April 15, 2009. Draz seconded, and the motion carried 5-0.
Other Business
Planning Board members signed the documents authorizing their signatures with the registries and Land Court.
Adjournment
Gray moved to adjourn. Pickard seconded, and the motion carried 6-0. The meeting was adjourned at 9:25 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
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Mary Rogers, Committee Secretary Gerald Parent, Vince Chairman
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Planning Board approved these minutes at the meeting held 6/3/09.
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