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Home My WebLink About2009-09-01 Planning Board Minutes Draft 9/2/09 PLANNING BOARD Minutes of the Meeting Tuesday, September 1, 2009 Town Hall, 120 Main Street Top floor conference room 7:00 PM 1 2Members present: John Simons, Chairman 3 Richard Rowen, regular member 4 Timothy Seibert, regular member 5 Courtney LaVolpicelo, regular member 6 Michael Colantoni, alternate member 7 8Member absent: Michael Walsh, regular member 9 10Staff present: Judy Tymon, Town Planner 11 Mary Ippolito, Recording Secretary 12 13 14Chair called meeting to order at approximately 7:05 pm and announced the 15postponement. 16 POSTPONEMENT: 17 CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING: 18 William Gillen, Kelsey Lane 3 lot subdivision. 19Leaving existing house on existing lot, 20two new lots and new roadway within R-2 zoning district. SUBMITTED WAIVER OF 21TIME CONSTRAINTS. 22 23 Chair called for DISCUSSION: 24 25Zoning articles for Town Meeting. 26Judy: working w/Tom Urbelis regarding wireless bylaw change, he’s working at direction 27of BOS to put together bylaw that would have specific parcels in Town that would allow 28wireless installation. Judy: working with GIS mapping tools to identify the parcels and 29show geographically what it would look like in relation to residential neighborhoods. 30 31Judy: working on CDD1 and CDD2, had conversations with residents in these districts 32regarding parcel sizes, etc. 33 34Jennifer Hughes, Conservation, advised there isn’t a lot of depth in this area there are a 35lot of wetlands and it’s a big constraint. 36 37Chair: wants to walk this area and go to the CDD3 also. This is a bad real estate climate. 38 39Judy: found discrepancies within bylaw and use table, she’s working w/Building 40Inspector to clear this up. Page 1 Draft 9/2/09 1 2TS: Industry will be using more towers at less power and closer together. If we create 3overlay district and they come back in and say wireless has to be within 20 feet, this 4makes for problems. Some time down the road telecommunications may just make a 5wireless device on telephone poles. 6 7Judy: Mark Hutchins, RF Engineer, is aware of this kind of technology, and we have to 8take this into consideration. 9 10RR: If our citizens are truly upset by a power level that at 1 tenth of 1 percent is 11allowable by the law, then more education is needed to convince even half the people 12who are concerned today. So, if we just create overlay districts then we are not solving 13the problem. 14 15TS: what ever PB comes up with then there would be a counter proposal at Town 16Meeting and education in the form of public relations effort for both groups should be 17supported into our strategy. TS: would like to see them put a restriction on 2 percent, 18because the carrier is meeting that easily. Judy: the question is are we allowed to do that? 19Chair: we can’t solve this problem; it has to go to court because we can’t put restrictions 20on Federal Court. Chair; until litigation issues are resolved we are going to have endless 21contention. RR: need 2/3 vote he doesn’t think were going to get that. CL: it’s important 22to get 2/3 vote on one or the other because if not nothing will change. 23 24Chair: we’re at a time where we’re trying to manage thru the commercial development. 25Take Lucent, new zoning is there and nothing is happening. Go back thru Curt 26Bellavance, Director of Community Development, and start a dialogue; do we want to do 27something different, is it right or not? Airport is an under used resource but could have a 28tremendous amount of value. There is a lot of land out there. RR: problem with airport 29is access to airport. RR: need direct access off Rte. 495 into back side of airport. Chair: 30D&F project (21 High Street) we should talk to them to make it an interesting project. 31One problem is power lines run thru part of it and that’s where you would want to put 32buildings, if there are constraints then PB would lose out on creativity. Judy: Mr. 33Steinberg owns these projects. He has an energy company coming in with 30 to 40 34employees, he’s doing interior buildups. He’s put residential units on hold now. Judy: 35wants to use rail trail and connect it to downtown area. Chair: CPA funded work in 36Machine Shop Village in order to do something with the road down town. MC: Schneider 37Electric has sent a lot of their work to France, so they are smaller. Chair: doesn’t see a lot 38of residential single-family zoning happening within the last 5 years. Should do a mixed 39use as commercial development will be good use of PB time and ask Curt Bellavance to 40come and talk about this w/PB. 41 42 Chair called for CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING: 43 Brooks School, 1160 Great Pond Road. 44Renovate existing natural grass soccer fields 45with synthetic turf, installation of sub-base drainage system, walkways, 200 bleacher 46seats and sports lighting on both fields within R-1 & R-2 zoning district. Page 2 Draft 9/2/09 1Judy: gave a summary of Chris Huntress’ review. Judy: did site walk w/Con/Com and 2Lisa Eggleston, Chris Huntress, John Trovage, Charlotte Murphy, to determine if there 3was a violation of the current drainage system and in their opinion there was no violation 4and the new system will not have to go thru Con/Com; see submitted letter in PB packets. 5Ms Eggleston finished her review, there will be additional runoff from upper field, but 6drainage impact would be negligible. Letter submitted from Mr. Titterington, 64 7Campion Road for the record. Mr. Huntress included a photo analysis, met w/Gerry 8Brown, Building Inspector, and determined what they are proposing is similar at the high 9school and there is no zoning bylaw that governs lights or lighting. Mr. Huntress: made stth 10progress since last PB meeting of July 21, he did a site walk on Aug. 1st and Aug. 19. 11He made the calculation analysis better which is submitted in his report. 12 13Chair: what type of field is going in? Mr. Huntress: submitted a sample of synthetic turf 14sub base pad, turf is 1 inch and ½ inch is filled with rubber. Brooks eliminated the use of 15re-cycle tires. Cost approximately $100K for cost of field. Referenced Mr. Titterington’s 16letter regarding 80 to 100 foot poles. Mr. Huntress: Existing trees are approximately 80 17feet tall. Candles go from 50 foot down to 1foot; evergreen trees will provide a buffer. 18Mr. Huntress: what is schedule of time to turn off lights? Brooks is committed to end at 1910:00pm and lights out at 10:30 pm. Brooks doesn’t anticipate playing night games; this 20is just for the use of the students and to make better fields on their own campus. 21 22John Trovage, Facilities Manager for Brooks School, doesn’t plan on changing their 23activities what so ever. No planned increase for the use for these fields. Brooks wants to 24get their students outside earlier in the season. Soccer camp students use the fields in 25July and August, no need for further lightning. The lights could be on until 7pm or so 26during football season, but the students come in and go into study hall right after that. 27Brooks league doesn’t play night games. TS: what does foot candle reading mean? Mr. 28Huntress: exit building need one foot candle; to read a document you need 7 foot 29candles; 30 foot candles sufficient for practice; 50 foot candles required for faster sports; 30100 foot candles required for televised. 31 32Mark Woodworth, 80 Campion Road: there are other fields available to use why do these 33particular fields that are bordering his property need to be used? Adults and children 34urinating near his property line. Chair: work this issue out with Brooks as it’s not 35germane to this application. Mr. Woodworth: issue is the lights; kids will play at night 36because it’s cooler then during the daytime. RR: you’re asking Brooks not to utilize their 37property. Brooks could build a house within 30 feet of his property line. Mr. 38Woodworth: why can’t Brooks move these soccer fields down a bit? The stands will 39hold 250 people who will be abutting his property line. He wants something submitted in 40writing about the time lights will be turned off. 41 42Jim LaCourse, 96 Campion Road: if Brooks has an occasional need for practice put it on 43a field that won’t affect the noise level. If they need occasional use of lights put it away 44from residential neighborhood and reposition lights away from residential neighborhood. 45Why do they have to put potential night activity 50 feet from his house? It’s disruptive to 46what he’s working hard for. Page 3 Draft 9/2/09 1 2Mr. Huntress: Boys’ soccer has more use for these fields. Brooks has chosen this area 3with relationship to the lake, highlighted buffer zones to water supply, non-disturb, non- 4discharge, general zone, ½ of the field is outside of one of these zones. Brooks did 5everything they could to minimize glare and significant buffer of trees is helpful. . 6Chair: what is timing of the lights and when do they get turned off? Mr. Huntress: 7activity done by 10pm and lights turned off at 10:30pm. 8Chair: keep this hearing open. 9 10Mr. Woodworth: has issue during summer he doesn’t want the camps going until 10 or 1110:30pm he wants a time limit as to when these games are over. John Trovage: Brooks 12has paid a sizable amount of money to light these fields, there isn’t any such restriction rd 13on the high school fields. Brooks runs these summer camps thru 2nd week of July to 3 14week in August. Brooks is limited in picking a full size field. 15 16Mr. Woodworth: high school doesn’t have any neighbors it’s a very different setting 17than Brooks. He wants to make sure they aren’t there every night until 10:30 pm. 18Chair: can’t dictate Brooks’s business policies as a school. 19 20 Chair called for CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING: 21 Eugene & Anne Saragnese, 105 Bonny Lane, 22requesting a Watershed Special Permit 23to raze existing residential dwelling and rebuild new residential dwelling with footprint 24enlarged by 1169 s.f., construct a deck, widening of existing driveway, minor site grading 25changes, installation of drainage structure within Non-Disturbance zone in R-1 zoning 26district. 27 28Judy: met w/Jack Sullivan, reviewed files for 880 Great Pond Road and looked at files 29for 1025 Osgood St. Jack Sullivan, Engineer, presented a new plan and narrative. 30Drainage is increased to 48 inches, changed driveway it’s all impervious area now. 31Existing grassy area will remain per Lisa Eggleston’s recommendation; restrict deed to 32use total organic fertilizer, no tree cutting within 150 foot buffer. Property is on Town 33sewer. Mr. Sullivan submitted a letter from Mr. Saragnese, applicant, to the PB he 34understands this is drinking water for the Town. Property is within 150 feet of the lake. 35There will be no lawn expansion for this project, and applicant agreed to deed restriction. 36No trees will be cut within 150 foot to lake. Minor grading changes. No additional rates 37of run off. Submitted written support of this project by 3 neighbors. RR: was house on 38Town sewer? Mr. Sullivan: it was on septic. RR: What date did the old septic system 39terminate? Mr. Sullivan: he’ll check w/BOH. Mr. Sullivan: Building Inspector 40determined how to calculate GFA, he looks at overall footprint of the border to determine 41GFA. Chair: applicant wrote a nice letter. Mr. Sullivan: wants Judy to e-mail a draft 42decision to him. RR: put in no cutting within 150 feet of lake, this is strictly for this 43project. Judy: maintenance would be allowed (like taking down dead trees). 44Keep meeting open and draft a decision. 45 46 Page 4 Draft 9/2/09 MINUTES OF THE MEETING: 1 August 18, 2009 “Minutes” 2 nd 3Motion by TS to accept the Minutes, 2 by CL, vote was unanimous. 4 nd 5Motion to adjourn by RR, 2 by CL, meeting was adjourned at approximately 8:30pm. 6 7 8 9 By order of the Planning Board 10 11 ____________________________ 12 Approved 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Please note: The Planning Board reserves the right to take items out of order and to discuss/or vote on 30 items that are not listed on the agenda. Page 5