All right, moving along. Uh we had a public hearing scheduled for this evening uh that is being continued. It's it's the site plan review for Zero Middle Road, map 23, lot 1B.
uh they are not finished. They're requesting a little bit more time. We are going to continue this public hearing uh on April our next meeting of April 2nd. Can I get a motion?
>> Motion to continue. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Now, did they actually present anything at the last meeting? This is your middle road. >> No. >> Okay. I didn't miss anything. I don't need to go watch something on >> YouTube.
>> No, they did present the plans. >> Zero in the world. >> Yeah, the storage the the construction site. >> Yeah. >> Oh, yes. I'm sorry. >> They did. >> Yeah. >> They presented the the it's a the storage facility for a single
construction company. They're going to store um lom and and actually the public hearing part of the public hearing that they presented that stuff. >> It was part of the public hearing. >> I'll have to make sure I go back and and watch that time. Okay.
>> And then we need some uh something from the building uh inspector got sent to town council for clarification >> and that's why we continued it. >> Gotcha. Okay. Fair enough. Uh, moving right along.
Discussion. Continued request for minor modifications. 1050 Main Street, Map 7, Lot 24. Applicant is a Kushet Solar LLC/Nexamp. Representative is Evan Connley of Bales
and Bales and Thomas, Inc. Uh the scope of the work is a proposed modification related to storm water and emergency access. Introduce yourself please. >> All right. >> Good evening everyone. My name is
Connley. Um I'm here from um St. Thomas on >> Excuse me. Could you just elevate your voice? >> Oh yeah. Yeah. Um so I'm here on behalf of the applicant at Kushna Solar. Um we're here to continue our discussion that we started two weeks ago um
regarding the storm water ponding at the site entrance of 1050 Main Street uh the solar project there. Um so in the previous meeting we had discussed the pre-existing storm water ponding. Uh the board had indicated that the existing
storm water capacity on site had been reduced when the applicant had ra elevated the site entrance um and requested the applicant replace the storm water capacity or investigate other creative solutions to reestablish
the capacity of the kind of natural depression at the front of the site um prior to when the road was elevated. Um so I bills and Thomas reviewed the existing topography and the site the various site constraints and has proposed
um replacing the um storm water capacity of this natural depressed area um by extending the contours into the hill along the side of the access road um along the
northern and southern side to make up for what was taken way by elevating the road in the center of that area. Um we are proposing an additional culvert between underneath the road uh to
promote storm water to flow from north to south south to north as it normally would in the in the whole area. Um, we have rip wrap bmss kind adjacent to the site entrance. Um, in an attempt to
reduce storm water velocities for anything that would go off site um and to hold back some storm water to some extent during um larger storms. Uh for during construction, we're showing temporary compost filter stocks up
gradient. Um and this would be to slow down the storm water during construction and um those would be in place until the whole area stabilized. Um by extending this naturally natural depression area along the two sides of the access road,
the preconstruction storm water capacity is replaced so that the storm water can naturally infiltrate into the ground as it normally would. Um, I think with that I'd be happy to answer any questions.
>> Um, does this is this going to require a storm water permit modification, too? I mean, this is altering the storm water flow. And what I'm getting to is it would be nice to have some calculations that showed how much how much extra
material is in is in that flooded area and how much uh has been replaced. >> I mean it's fine to say it's the same but it would be nice to see the calculations.
>> So we did um or sorry I did a preliminary um earthwork calculation. So that's how the contours were created. Um >> I understand I understand that. I I I it would be nice to have somebody take a quick look at calculations.
>> Yeah, we we are after listening and he's going to give us his whole thing. This is going to peer review to the same engineering company that did. That's fine. >> The same engineering company that did their storm water peer review. This is going to that same engineer. I forget
the name. >> Mel. Uh, and we're going to have them take a look at this. I want to know the exact same thing. I want to make sure that the area that they're opening up or the area that they have for the excess water is the same as the road that they put in
>> that the road took away. Exactly. Yeah. >> Okay. Fair enough. >> That was kind of our plan today. I just wanted to kind of present present the idea, make sure kind of seems um like a good approach from you guys. Um and then we can discuss getting the peer review
done. Um getting a scope of work having it was Deb Deb Keller from Merrill. She was very great to work with. Um and we are preparing to create those calculations and provide all that. So >> yeah. Um >> yeah, I mean I I think that's a
reasonable solution. Mark, >> this is if it's if it's equal, there's still going to be flooding down there, you know, even with this. I totally agree with you and this is something that we had a department head meeting uh 6 to 8 months ago and this is what this
is the scenario that we came up with with the the um with Joe Battala the previous um board of health agent. It was a building. We were all there was all department head meetings. Uh and this is what we came up with and we emailed them
>> this exact scenario that uh it seems they didn't want to listen to us the first time around and now they're listening to us or they're deciding to go with it the second time around. Uh but yeah, I do think that this is a good alternative for attempting to fix the problem. provide
the calculations, get the peer review done and >> yeah, as long as peer review comes back and says yes, the the area that they're opening up is, you know, more or less the same as the area that they filled in and it'll take the added water. I think that would
>> at least not make the situation worse. >> No, no. If anything, it definitely will make it better. I do like the rip wrap berm that you have there. Even though it's only like a foot foot and a half high, uh it'll definitely um help prevent anything that might >> Yeah. the erosion
>> erosion and whatnot. I mean, it is a stone burm. After years, it'll get filled up with dirt and grass and whatnot. So, it becomes a mini dam anyways. Uh which is good that it won't flow over the flow over Main Street. >> Mhm. >> Okay,
gentlemen. Any more questions? No. We'll send this off to peer review. Um I don't know how long they usually take. It could be two two week. Do you want to do that? Yeah, we have to come back. So
do you want to >> do you want to do like a month? >> I would say probably a month. Um I did have a question. So when we had the peer review done for conservation commission um they had us contact Merrill individually and we kind of all work
together on the scope of services. Um is that the path you want to go forward with or do you guys contact Merrill for the peer review or maybe we can kind of all >> Yeah. Typ tip if I may please. Um typically I'll reach out to Merryill um
and say hey this is what we're looking for. I'll provide them a copy of what you provided me and I'll ask for the estimate and then I'll kind of relay that to you and then after that of course we can all be on the email as well if that sounds okay. >> Yeah. Um do you want me to send you
Deb's information or anything? I don't know if that's helpful at all. >> I have it working on some other reviews. >> Perfect. Perfect. Thank you. >> Okay. Um then I think we have a good plan forward. Anything else from you guys? >> Nope. Um, I'll entertain a motion to
send this to peer review and to uh postpone uh for a month which is >> April 16th. >> April 16th. >> So moved uh motion to uh forward this for peer review and uh do we have a date for
>> April 16th >> and we'll let it go till April 16th for our next meeting. Hopefully, it will all be resolved and reviewed by then. I mean, it's not a complicated thing. So, should be a simple calc. >> All right. I second that. All in favor?
>> I thank you very much. Have a good night. >> If you have this or anything else you want me to send to feel free to send it over to you. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Have a good one. >> You too. >> Um, all right.
Uh move right along. Uh this is a continued discussion on amending the business village district. So um it's been a few meetings since we discussed this. Um
Victoria did give us a copy of um the town of Norton. >> Yes. and we were going to look through this as far as accept acceptable usages. I went through it. I think they're spot
on. I mean, there's they have a lot here. Um there's a few things that I disagree with them. Uh where it says here gasoline filling and service station or car wash, they have a a no. I
think that should be a special permit. um commercial recreational facilities, tennis and other playing courts not including a drive-in theater and are no less than 150 ft from the nearest residential boundary. I got that as a
no. But if somebody wanted to put in some >> a drive-in theater that would be that would be something if you got enough room for it, you know, should be special. >> Speaking of showing their age, right? >> Yeah. And then they even have like body art establishment and they got to know
uh it's a tattoo par. If somebody has a house and they want to open it a tattoo >> par, right? They should be able to. So there's certain things in here that I um a registered medical marijuana dispensary. I think that would be unbelievably awesome because that brings
in a crazy amount of revenue uh to the town. Um and or uh marijuana farming. uh I think is something that we should also look into since we have a lot of farms in this town. But just after looking over this and you gentlemen, you know,
obviously have your opinions as well. I think we should pretty much follow the norm which which uh district on that chart >> the >> village center core >> village center core the VCC. >> Okay. Okay.
>> Is the one that I'm kind of looking at. Uh and because I mean we can they have residential use, they have open space and agricultural res. >> I looked at commercial is the one cuz that's what we're looking at.
>> I looked at the basically the >> I just wanted to narrow my scope of what I was looking at. That's all. >> Yeah, we're looking at the BCC uh use. I highlighted some that I think they have nos on that I think we should have either yes or special permit.
>> Uh but besides that I think they have a very very very good um template for us to copy >> start with start with. >> Did now do they have uh like a parking requirement section and something about
coverage and frontage and area? >> They do. Is Is that in that package? >> Yes. >> Okay. Okay. >> I don't know. >> I' I've been I've been busy. >> No, >> I shouldn't be. >> Yeah, it's in >> I'm 73. I shouldn't be
>> You should be busy. >> So, you part of my father's legacy. I'm still trying to get units fixed up for affordable housing. How about that? >> There you go. Something we need. So, we all have copies of this. again when you
get a chance take a highlighter kind of highlight the ones you agree with the ones you don't disagree with and uh you know we can put that give that all to Victoria and Victoria can kind of make the changes and if there's any that we need to kind of banter back and forth on some of us might say yes some of us
might say no we can you know go back and forth on some of those uh I don't I honestly don't see very many that we might have disagreements on because it's all pretty much straightforward uh but if there is then there's those are you know we can narrow it down to the two or three that we one says yes, one says no,
and we'll go back and forth on it. >> Yeah. Yeah. I think it's I think it's a great idea. Um again, like like I said earlier, I think the biggest thing that would that I would be concerned about is something in there. There would have to be some regulations in there about
outside storage. >> Yes. >> Yeah. And they have it. Once you read through it, you'll see it. >> Now, Rick, you handed us this. Talk to me. You just Oh, >> that was just That was I just went through up and down the road and said, "Well, what's there right now,
>> you know, got all that's all that is good?" >> And so was for my own uh >> and after you doing this and thank you very much for taking this, you know, taking it on your own time to kind of go through and do your homework and show us what might or might not be available. we
come to the conclusion that there isn't very much available. >> No, I think we really would be talking about somebody who's got a small business that wants to put it in their house or in a garage next to their house. That that kind of a thing based on what I what I saw. I
>> agree. >> And and I think there needs to be in order to promote that. I mean, there are probably some lots there that are currently undersized. Well, I got to think about making some provision for that because if you've got
a lot that's smaller than what's required right now for >> for for a house for a house >> something less than 60,000 ft >> and that means that anything that you go in for after that is a ZBA issue. So if you wanted to put a business in
one of those smaller lots, it might be pretty difficult to do, right? >> I'd like please. >> Yeah. >> So just to interject a little bit. So that's the size for residential A, but with this new zone, you can set a new standard, a new dimensional requirement.
>> Mhm. >> You know, so you can look at what lots are there, maybe look at the averages, that sort of thing. So that's a part of >> So if we do have lots on Main Street that are undersized that you can't put a house on >> well or already have a house >> or have a house and they can cut off a
piece and they can cut off a piece but isn't enough to cut out to build another house but it's big enough to put a small little >> business there then that's also too and when you read through this from Norton they have uh lot dimensional sizes they
have setbacks >> it's all in Yeah. So, that's something that we need to really look at, I think. >> Look at closely. >> Look at closely. If if there if somebody lives on Main Street and they have a house and they have a nice piece of land, they can cut out a piece that's
less than 60,000 square ft. Let's just say it's 20,000 square ft. >> Mhm. and they can put in a small uh just like they did over at Whites right next to Whites there's that you know three facing storefront that there's a hair salon in one and it's you know if this
then we got to be able to say yes it doesn't have to be 60,000 feet it could be 20,000 ft as long as you have the 15t setbacks as long as you have enough room for parking as long as it meets the the guidelines for septic they should be able to do it and there there are lots
that people own on on Main Street that are big. They're over 60,000 square feet. >> Oh, yeah. There's some huge ones. >> There's some huge lots. But let's just say they're not 120,000 square feet where they don't have enough frontage for a second house lot, but yet they have enough to do a small little
business on the side that they can, you know, sell or or do themselves. You know what I mean? That's that's kind of the the the object of this. >> Okay. Fairly. >> So, look through this again. Uh look at
the setbacks. uh look at the the uh usage uh sheet and let's come back with some ideas of no I definitely don't think we should have this yes I think this is you know a good idea the setbacks that they have you might want them bigger you might want them smaller
come back with some ideas that we can kind of get on paper >> and and start pushing this forward >> okay >> and then once we have a somewhat of a template we can start having public hearings and if anybody out there in the audience audience that wants to come in and give us their opinion, their
thoughts. Uh please don't feel free to email the planning board as well and give us your thoughts. Give us, you know, your thoughts of what setback should be, your thoughts for allowed usages should be or not be. Uh this is a
a community thing and we would definitely like to hear from the residents in town of their thoughts. I'd rather get that all as much as possible discussed now instead of having everybody freak out at town meeting.
Any questions? No. All set. Okay. We'll push this off again till the next meeting. Hopefully, we get some uh replies from the board and then we can go from there. Uh our next meeting, we don't have anything else that came up in
the last um 48 hours. Our next meeting is Thursday, April 2nd. Uh, anybody? Is that a motion? >> Motion to close. >> Got a motion. Second. All in favor? >> I.
>> Thank you. Have a good night.