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CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT
Community Development Division
M E M O R A N D U M
DATE
: August 29, 2012
TO
: North Andover Planning Board
John Simons, Chairman
FROM
: Jennifer Hughes, Conservation Administrator
CC:
North Andover Conservation Commission (NACC)
Louis Napoli, Chairman
SUBJECT:
Preliminary P.R.D. Subdivision Plan, “Regency place”, North Andover, MA
The Conservation Department is in receipt of the Proposed Site Plan dated July 16, 2012. Portions of
the proposed subdivision are with areas jurisdictional to the NACC. These resource areas include
Riverfront Area, Isolated Vegetated Wetland (IVW) and Buffer Zone to Bordering Vegetated Wetland
(BVW). The resource area delineation was reviewed and approved under an ANRAD filing DEP File
# 242-1556 on 5/15/2012. My initial comments are as follows:
After review of the proposed lot lines, I am concerned about the applicant’s ability to construct
a house and appurtenances outside of the 50’ No-Build Zone on Lot 7.
The applicant will need to do an alternatives analysis to locate the roadway in the Riverfront
Area. The applicant will need to prove that there is “no practicable and substantially
equivalent economic alternative to the proposed project with less adverse effects on the
interests identified in MGL c. 131 sect. 40.” The scope of alternatives can extend to “the
original parcel and the subdivided parcels, any adjacent parcels, and any other land which can
reasonably be obtained within the municipality.”
The project will need to comply with the Stormwater Standards as required by the Mass DEP.
Thank you for your consideration.
1600 Osgood Street, North Andover, Massachusetts 01845
Phone 978.688.9530 Fax 978.688.9542 Web www.townofnorthandover.com