Wellfleet Planning Board
Minutes of Meeting on Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Senior Center Duck Pond Room, 7:00 p.m.
Present: Janet Reinhart, Chair; Eric Larsen, Janet Morrissey, Gerald Parent, Theodore Franklin, Barbara E. Gray; Assistant Town Administrator Tim King
Regrets: Alfred Pickard
Chair Janet Reinhart called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m.
Minutes of 6/20/12
Morrissey moved to approve the minutes of June 20, 2012. Parent seconded, and the motion carried 5-0.
Tree Removal on Scenic Road
Assistant DPW Director Paul Lindberg was present to request permission to remove trees from Bound Brook Island Rd., a scenic road. Planning Board will schedule a public hearing after holding a site visit to the location.
Photovoltaics
Janet Reinhart reported on the site visit to the Capped Landfill parcel under consideration as the location for a large photovoltaic array (PVA). Dennis O’Connell said that 100 ft. setbacks would not be an issue at that site. Marcus Springer added information on the capacity for the PVA. Lilli-Ann Green gave some further information she had gleaned at a second site visit with a solar developer. Marcus Springer gave the heights of the arrays. He said NSTAR would have to do a study of the connection of the array to the grid. That cost would have to be borne by the contractor, he said. Dennis O’Connell asked if an interconnect was provided for in the bylaw proposal. Marcus Springer said there is an expert who is dealing with the interconnect. The developer would be in
charge of the interconnect. Mr. Springer explained the set up of the arrays and the wires connecting the arrays to the inverter building to the transformer box. There was discussion of a wall separating the Whitetail Lane abutters from the PVA.
Barbara Gray discussed presentation of the bylaw and marketing for the PVA, but that will come later in the process. The Board began to review the draft bylaw revisions for photovoltaics* which Jan Morrissey, with suggestions from Dennis O’Connell, had prepared. There are still some questions that will have to be determined by town counsel.
Jan Morrissey explained the highlighted sections containing the changes. Dennis O’Connell added explanations of how certain terms were chosen in the Definition section of the bylaw. The Use Table contained new information that the Board took under consideration. Minimum Yard Requirements had been revised to the Board’s satisfaction. In the overall Section X there had been changes in language in several clauses that were further revised or eliminated.
Renaming Road Procedure & Forms
Planning Board reviewed the overview of procedures for renaming a road
or way. Changes to the forms for renaming roads and ways are underway.
Re-vegetation along Old King’s Highway at Seamen’s Bank Site
Eric Larsen disclosed that his former employer worked on the project.
Gerald Parent and Ted Franklin recused themselves from the meeting.
Planning Board had received a landscaping plan for Seamen’s Bank which answered the revegetation questions posed in a letter from Alexandra Grabbe to the Planning Board.
Agenda for Next Meeting
Agenda for the August 15 meeting will include: public hearing for tree removal on Bound Brook Island Rd., renaming road forms, Buttry Way extension, photovoltaics bylaw, Road Clearing Bylaw Committee, Inconsistencies in ZBL
Recycling of Planning Board Materials
Janet Reinhart suggested that member return unwanted materials to the secretary or, if needed, bring material back to the next meeting.
Adjournment
Gray moved to adjourn. Larsen seconded, and the motion carried 5-0. The meeting was adjourned at 9:30 p.m.
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Mary Rogers, Committee Secretary Janet Reinhart, Chair
Planning Board approved these minutes at the meeting held 8/15/12.
Public Records Material of 7/18/12
*Draft Photovoltaic Bylaws of 7/18/12
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