Wellfleet Planning Board
Minutes of Meeting on Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Senior Center Conference Room, 7:00 p.m.
Present: Janet Reinhart, Chair; Theodore Franklin, Janet Morrissey, Alfred Pickard, Barbara E. Gray, Gerald Parent; Town Planner Consultant Patrice Carson
Regrets: Eric Larsen
Chair Janet Reinhart called the meeting to order at 7:01 p.m.
Way Renaming – Eldredge Way & Isabel Way
Jonathan Eldredge explained his request to assign the name Isabel Way to the way located on Map 9 from Gross Hill Road to Long Pond Road to the east and give the name Eldredge Way to the way beginning in Map 16 from Long Pond Rd. and running into Map 9 to Isabel Road. Mary Lou Wood from the Fire Department further explained public safety issues related to naming the ways.
Pickard moved to approve the names Isabel Way as replacement name for the way between Gross Hill Rd and easterly to Long Pond Rd. and Eldredge Way from Long Pond to Isabel Way and to extend Way #632 (beginning in Map 9) east to Ocean View Drive (in Map 10) with signage included at each intersection. Gray seconded, and the motion carried 6-0.
Mary Lou Wood said that changes don’t go into the GIS system immediately.
Minutes of 8/1512
Gray moved to approve the minutes of August 15, 2012. Morrissey seconded, and the motion carried 4-0.
Mail
Jan Morrissey distributed the mail log for September 19, 2011. A Kopelman & Page memo will be included in the next PB packet.
Update for Attorney General’s SPGA Bylaw Approval Public Hearing
Patrice Carson said that the Attorney General had approved the revised advertising for the SPGA. The Town Clerk will include the bylaw changes in the current Zoning Bylaws.
Photovoltaics Bylaw Public Hearing Date
Jane Morrissey reported on progress by the Energy Committee on the photovoltaic bylaw. The public hearing date will be scheduled after Planning Board has reviewed the Energy Committee’s comments on the bylaw. There was a discussion about holding a meeting with the public in addition to the hearing. That would be an action for the Energy Committee, PB decided.
Renaming Roads/Ways Procedure Update
Patrice Carson and Janet Morrissey had revised the renaming roads and ways procedure. Planning Board made some additional changes to the forms.
Parent moved to approve the forms and procedures for renaming roads and naming ways as amended. Franklin seconded, and the motion carried 6-0.
Reorganization
Alfred Picard had attended the first Ad Hoc Waste Water Management Committee meeting but had not yet been appointed as representative from the Planning Board. He reported on what happened at the meeting.
Parent moved to appoint Alfred Pickard Planning Board representative to the Ad Hoc Waste Water Management Committee. Morrissey seconded, and the motion carried 6-0.
Janet Reinhart volunteered to continue as representative to the Community Preservation Committee.
Parent moved to approve Reinhart as CPC representative. Pickard seconded and the motion carried 6-0.
Janet Reinhart offered to remain as the Housing Partnership representative from Planning Board.
Morrissey moved to approve Reinhart as Housing Partnership representative. Parent seconded, and the motion carried 6-0.
Gray nominated Reinhart as Planning Board Chair.
Franklin seconded. Reinhart was elected by a vote of 5-0-1.
Gray nominated Parent as Planning Board Vice Chair. Morrissey seconded. Parent was elected 6-0.
Gray nominated Morrissey as Clerk. Franklin seconded, and was elected 6-0.
Scenic Road Maintenance
Janet Reinhart said she had discussions with the DPW Director Mark Vincent and the Chief of Police Ronald Fisette about road improvements and maintaining Town character while improving safety on the roads. They had discussed road sizes and line markings. She said that roads needed to be priorities; however, there is no money available for their upkeep. They had taken into consideration also the bike trail extension and the Herring River Restoration plans that affect roads.
Priorities
Planning Board reviewed the 2011 list of priorities. Sheds will be placed on the list.
Sheds & Accessory Buildings
Planner Patrice Carson’s worksheets on Sheds and Accessory Buildings will be distributed at the next meeting.
Agenda for Next Meeting
The anticipated agenda for the October 3, 2012 meeting includes: Photovoltaic Bylaws, Sheds & Accessory Buildings, and Transfer Development Rights.
Adjournment
Gray moved to adjourn. Reinhart seconded, and the motion carried 6-0. The meeting was adjourned at 9:15 p.m.
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Mary Rogers, Committee Secretary Janet Reinhart, Chair
Planning Board approved these minutes at the meeting held 10/3/12.
Public Records Material of 9/19/12
1.) Naming Way #632 materials – stored in PB permanent record 2.)Mail log of 9/19/12 3.)Road renaming and way naming forms and procedural
papers
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