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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2022-02-07 Master Plan Implementation Committee Minutes Master Plan Implementation Committee Meeting Minutes February 7, 2022 Attending: (via Google Meet): Members ® on Strauss (chair), Meredith Barnes-Cook (vice-chair), Jay Dowd, George Koehler, Stan Limpert, Eitan Goldberg. Absent: Chris Nobile, Sean McDonough Staff Andrew Shapiro (Director of Community and Economic Development), and Dan Beckley (Staff Planner) Call To Order Immediately prior to calling the meeting to order at 5:02 PM, Jon Strauss read aloud a statement regarding the conduct of virtual meetings and public access. Public Comment No public comments were received by either Jon Strauss or Andrew Shapiro prior to the start of the meeting. Approval of Minutes for the meeting held on January 10, 2022 George Koehler moved to approve the minutes as presented. Holly Williams seconded. The vote was 5-0-1 in favor; motion passed. Eltan Goldberg just joined the Committee so abstained. Jon Strauss opened the meeting with hearty thank you to Kelly Cormier, the Planning Board's representative to the MPIC. She served as the Committee's first is Chair and was instrumental in setting up its structures and procedures. Jon welcomed her replacement, Planning Board member, Eltan Goldberg. Jon then moved to discuss the continuing use and usefulness oft Master Plan Implementation Status Report. The spreadsheet remains the proper place for the seven Element subcommittees, namely Land Use, Housing, Economic Development, Transportation, Open Space / Recreation, Historic / Cultural / Natural Resources, and Public Facilities / Services to report their work reviewing the 103 numbered strategies within. Some but not all were complete. Jon called the Status Report a "first stop" for subcommittees as they report u ® George Koehler called it "an internal working document" is then evolves into a public document on the web site. Andrew Shapiro called it 66a living compendium of progress". Andrew Shapiro noted that he, Jean Enright and Dan Beckley had the duty of updating the website. He explained how efficiently they could upload news on the Elements as it broke given it full time positions in Planning. Jon Strauss wondered how MPICommitte members would know when the website was updated. Holly Williams recognized the problem as well. Andrew explained he could easily call web page changes tot attention of the Element committees for retroactive input and edits. Jay 's question of se website is this meant to be, the Town's r the MPICommittee's, brought the second n item, Implementation Web Page, into the discussion. si n, he explained, inspired h c e 's decision to writenarratives by each Element subcommitteer r interest of the casual reader who wants to knows going on but is not inclined t read the fine printdetailing c the 103 strategies. The narratives woulditen by citizens s r citizens. It was a way for h "voice" of the IVIPICommittee to be heard in the officialreporting. Andrew it answered h t it is the n' site and that Town planners had responsibility for its content and currency. r on the need for the professionals to producestrategy language, question of a placer the MPICommittee's "voice" remained. complimented cr is narrative for Housing. He called his own narrative for Trans tin easy to write compared to the complicated nature using element Georgehad gottenra Eltan Goldbergsked that both narratives committee. t Limperts s r s a need to create " process document". y that he meant clear, agreed upon delineation of thesteps to update strategies, hem to the spreadsheet, review 9 and then move to the website. The committee sked about the writtenr rr iv s already i place n the websitecu r Shapiro called themc h s and endorsedidea of committee ri narratives, u cautioned the writers to be facts-onlyn v i editorializing. suggested the title of the web page could ns r the questions voice or voices should be heard. Andrew read the proposedtitle: "Town of North Andover s r Plan Implementation," and the attached ABOUT. "This is landing r information related to the implementation of strategies outlined in the Town of North Andover's Master Plan, 2018. Thecontents of this page willupdated on an as-neededbasis by thet in cooperation with the Town'sMaster Plan Implementationo i e, which oversees progressi tin r n Straussur Subcommittees to submitit work. All agreed that "voice" was a good starting pointour next tine The next meetingis scheduledr Monday, March 14 at 5:00. Andrew Shapiro suggested si return to meetingface-to-face (with remote option possible). The ion to adjourn was made by HollyWilliams nseconded by Meredith Barnes-Cook. Ti6:12 PM Respectfully submitted , MPIC