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Home My WebLink About2009-06-16 Planning Board Minutes DRAFT 6/18/09 1 2 Planning Board 3 Minutes of the Meeting 4 Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5 Town Hall, 120 Main St. 6 7:00 PM 7 8Members present: John Simons, Chairman 9 Tim Seibert, regular member 10 Michael Walsh, regular member 11 Courtney LaVolpicelo, alternate member 12 13Member absent: Richard Rowen, regular member 14 15Staff present: Judy Tymon, Town Planner 16 Mary Ippolito, Recording Secretary 17 18Chair announced the following postponements: Omnipoint Communications, Inc. and 19AT&T Wireless. POSTPONEMENT: 20 CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING: 21 {Omnipoint Communications, Inc. – 72 Elm Street, Trinitarian Congregational 22 Church, 23Site Plan Review SP to install, operate, & maintain a stealth wireless 24communication facility consisting of up to 4 wireless telecommunication antennas 25mounted within the existing spire, radio communication equipment cabinet to be located Waiting for RF review from Mark 26within existing Church within R-4 zoning district. Hutchins. 27 28 POSTPONEMENT: 29 {AT&T Wireless, 1 High Street – 30wireless installation, pre-application conference 31regarding installation and operation of wireless communications antenna on the roof of 32Building 36 and additional antennas and related equipment inside multiple other 33buildings (the “Facility”) located at the above property. 34 Chair called for Executive Session with Attorney Urbelis and Planning Board, 35 regarding Steve Tryder vs Planning Board. 36 37Chair announced the Planning Board would go into Executive Session, roll call from 38Planning Board: I, Timothy Seibert vote to go into Executive Session. I, Courtney 39LaVolpicelo vote to go into Executive Session. I, John Simons vote to go into Executive 40Session. I. Tom Urbelis vote to go into Executive Session. 41 42PB did a roll call to come out of Executive Session and returned to the Public Hearing at 43approximately 7:25 pm. 44 Chair called for the following DISCUSSION: 45 Robert Ercolini, 880 Great Pond Road, 46requesting a waiver from Watershed SP. . 47Revised project was re-submitted to decrease size of proposed residential structure Page 1 June 16, 2009 Minutes DRAFT 6/18/09 1Patrick Bower, Andover Consultants, presented a new plan tonight to reduce footprint of 2house by 16%. Changes with grading are outside of 25-foot. Infiltrations were kept the 3same size. Proposed stone trench along pervious pavement driveway and along property 4line to facilitate additional infiltration. Concern w/winter runoff with new paving system, 5trench addresses freezing runoff in wintertime. 6 7Judy: wants copy of new landscape plan for PB file, there were additional things added, 8taking out catch basin. Judy and Jennifer Hughes from Conservation reviewed this 9project. Pat Bower: will submit this to Judy. He got Con/Com approval last week. 10 11Judy: to do a letter (for the record) delineating what the changes are reference the 12information almost as if it’s a modification and list new footprint of house, additional 13new plan, landscaping, etc. 14 15Motion by TS to grant a waiver for a Watershed Special Permit regarding changes to this nd 16new plan, 2 by MW, vote was unanimous 4-0. 17 Chair called for the following DISCUSSION: 18 19Ernie Gralia, CCRC project, Turnpike Street (Boston Hill), roofline was topic of 20discussion. 21 22Plse. note: Michael Walsh just arrived. 23 24Judy: Engineer addressed a letter to Judy Tymon and Gerry Brown stated the roofline is 25at 45-foot height, this requires a ZBA variance. Portico is considered a structure as an 26intrusion into 100-foot setback. Engineer stated that Richard Rowen would support a 27variance from ZBA because CCRC is not situated next to a smaller building of similar 28height. Will PB support a variance from ZBA? Chair will support it. TS and Courtney 29and MW will support a variance. Chair: PB to provide a letter of support to ZBA. 30Applicant doesn’t want to go w/mansard style roof and 35-foot roof height. Applicant 31wants to go with 45-foot roofline and obtain a variance from ZBA. 32 33Ernie Gralia: CCRC is clearly a congregate use and definitely leave it with that, based on 3468 independent units; total of 57 living units; total 125 units. Mr. Gralia will look at 35Edgewood for their classification. Mr. Gralia: if he strikes out w/ZBA then he will come 36back to PB with the ugly building and 35-foot mansard roof. 37 Chair called for the following DISCUSSION: 38 Clarification of the setbacks for the Watershed Protection District. 39 40 41Judy: In 1994 at a Special Town Meeting wording was added for conservation zone for 42lots created after 1994. The table and verbal description don’t match; the table should say .. 43150 feet not 100 feetInformation was duly noted 44 45 46 Page 2 June 16, 2009 Minutes DRAFT 6/18/09 Chair called for the following PUBLIC HEARING: 1 M.E.M.L.V, Inc. 492 Sutton Street (at airport) 2for a Site Plan Review Special Permit 3to construct a one-story steel hangar building of 6,375 s.f. to store an airplane within I-2 4zoning district. Decision drafted. 5Pat Bower, Engineer, presented. In 2005 PB approved previous hangars, since then 6developed storm water regulations. This hangar project is a much smaller hangar, entire 7area is paved, taking impervious surface and raising it off ground. Con/Com wants roof 8runoff infiltration and storm water infiltration, which is incorporated into this plan. 9 10Mr. Bower submitted a new plan tonight (for the record). 11 12Judy: reviewed submission and talked w/Jennifer Hughes. No water/septic/bathroom/ 13allowed on this hangar site. No maintenance will be done either. This is a personal 14storage of an aircraft. 15 16Judy: drafted decision see language #14, #17, #18, #19 specifics of hangar itself. 17 nd 18Motion by MW to close public hearing for M.E.M.L.V. 2 by TS, vote was unanimous. 19 20MW: #9 take out gas, telephone. 21Chair: zoning granted Variance not Special Permit. 22Chair: asked infiltration thing has that been approved technically by everybody? Mr. 23Bower: PB is first board to see this. Chair: this needs to get Town Engineer to look at 24this new plan reg. infiltration system. nd 25Motion by TS, 2 by MW, to approve as amended this evening, a Site Plan Review 26Special Permit, vote was unanimous. 27 28 29Courtney: non-disturbance spelled incorrectly. 30 31 Chair called for approval of MINUTES OF THE MEETING: 32 May 19, 2009 “Minutes” 33 34 nd 35Motion to approve May 19, 2009 Minutes by TS, 2 by MW, vote was unanimous. 36 nd 37Motion by MW to adjourn, 2 by TS, vote was unanimous meeting adjourned at 38approximately 8:15 pm 39 By order of the Planning Board 40 41 ___________________________ 42 Approved 43 44 45 Please note: The Planning Board reserves the right to take items out of order and to discuss/or vote on items that are not listed on the 46 agenda. Page 3 June 16, 2009 Minutes