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Part 1 (Video ID: dpumlCJyfGE):
- 00:00:14: Meeting Call to Order and Introductions
- 00:01:58: ANR Discussion: Mendo Road and Perry Hill Road
- 00:04:47: ANR Discussion: 733 and 767 Main Street
- 07:36:080: Administrative Details and Solar Modification Request
- 00:10:46: Discussion: Storm Water Ponding at 1050 Main Street
- 00:14:50: Public Hearing: Flood Plane Overlay District Amendment
- 00:17:09: Complete Streets Policy and Town Meeting Warrant
- 00:19:43: Land Management Fund Discussion and Upcoming Event
- 00:24:54: Concluding Remarks and Meeting Adjournment


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Today is April 16th, 2026. The time is 6:09 and this is the planning board. This meeting is being recorded for future viewing on the town's YouTube page. uh local cable channel and we are live

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via teams tonight. Can I get a motion to open the planning board meeting? >> I make a motion to open the public meeting. I will second it. >> All in favor? >> I >> uh can we uh introduce ourselves? We have a quorum today. >> Peter Gapp, a member.

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>> Mark Franis, chairman. >> Brian Dishamps, member. >> And on teams is our town planner. >> Yep. Victoria Alvaro. >> Thank you. All right. Uh, the meeting minutes. Um,

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Victoria sent out the meeting minutes for February 19th and March 19th. Um, on February 19th, everybody was in attendance except Rick, which he's not

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here tonight as well. And on March 19th, uh, everybody was present. Did you guys have a chance to look them over? Any comments, concerns? I make a motion to accept the minutes

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from February 19th. >> And what do we have? March >> March 19th. >> And March 19th. >> I got a motion. I'll second it. All >> in favor? I. Thank you. Uh, okay. Moving right along.

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Discussion. This is an approval not required an ANR for Men Road and Perry Hill Road, Map 11, Lot One. Applicant and owner is Deborah Maderas. Uh, representative by John Romanelli from Zenith Land Surveyors LLC. John, if you don't mind introducing

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yourself, please. >> Sure. >> Good evening. John Romanelli with Zenith Lance Aurveyors, 1162 Rockdale Avenue, Bedford, representing here uh Debbie Maderas and her brother William Harris. Yes. The current owners of the property

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behind u the hardware store on Perry Hill. Debbie does live in this house at 616 uh on Main Street. And she had uh actually her son Craig had asked me to cut out a buildable retreat lot. I guess they're going to sell a lot to her son

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Craig to build a new house out here. And this is what he they've had perk tests done. So, we built it around the perk test. And um it's got plenty of furniture for a retreat lot. I believe it has 68.83 ft along Mendo Road of Public Way. And

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we have a little over the required 120,000 square ft. We got 12038 all upland which leads us uh I'm basically calling this a retreat lot cuz it still has frontage on the public way of Perry Hill

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and obviously has 9.56 acres all upland pretty cut and dry I think um we did do a survey of this a few years ago uh just because they wanted us to set all the property corners so we had done a bunch of survey work out there a

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couple years ago so it's pretty cut and drive for us to take care of it. >> Yeah. Yeah. When I first originally had seen this, I thought you were coming in on this one right here, but no, you're coming in over here. >> Correct. That's where we come off of

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men. Yep. >> But they still have this one to access the 9.5 >> Yes. >> acres. Okay. Yeah. I mean, you got the 75 ft all around. You got

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the over 40 for the entrance all along. That's 75 ft all the way around. You got no wetlands. >> You can't get a much simple basic. >> I have no questions. >> Any questions, comments? No.

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>> I'll make a >> um You all set? >> Yeah. Motion. >> I'll entertain a motion. >> Okay. Motion to endorse and submit. >> I'll second it. >> All in favor? >> All right. Thank you. >> Why don't we before starting the myars

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want to go right into the second one? >> Let's do it. >> Uh moving right along. We got another ANR. Uh 733 and 767 Main Street, map 20, lot 23 and 23B. Applicant and owner is Carol Laurel and

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Christopher Laurel. represented by John Romanelli, Zenith Land Surveyors LLC. John, >> again, good evening. John Romanelli, Zenith Land Surveyors 1162 Rockel A. This is a plan. I think this is the fifth time I've brought this same property plan.

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>> Uh, and it's kind of kind of cool. It's uh mostly family. Chris Laurel uh currently lives here at 767 Main Street. uh the son of Carol and we're proposing to take a parcel from

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Chris's property here to get the 40 ft of furniture for the retreat lot and then we're going to deed from Carol to uh Chris's daughter is looking to build the house behind him. So that's the reason for the

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subdivision. Uh this lot does have a chunk of wetlands to the west. Uh, if you look at the note I put on here, it's 120,152 total square feet and we have 83,750 square ft of upland. Again, the frontage

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is coming from the 40 ft we're taking from Chris's lot. His remaining lot will still have 378 ft of frontage with 122,250 ft. Another pretty straightforward one. Uh the remaining land for Carol is down to

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20.73 acres, 17.7 of Upland. We did discover another pocket of wetlands in the uh southwest corner of the property when we did the uh recent survey. Basically, you've gone out there and the whole property now that they're

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looking to slowly cut up. Carol's got a few more children that are looking to possibly build out here. This is Carol's daughter here in the middle. Is that the one that's building right now? They're in there right now. >> That is right here. >> Oh, that's that one. >> Yeah, it's under construction. I noted

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that right there. Yes. I think there's a footing in the ground right now. >> Yeah. Yeah. All right. That's that one. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, we subdivided that last year. I think the year before we took a piece out of this and gave it to Alan >> Perryion. >> Yep. >> Again, another straightforward one.

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>> Yeah. I mean again you have the the 75 foot buffer all around. You get the uplet. >> You get the total square footage. You get the 40 ft of frontage. >> Questions gentlemen. >> All good. >> Motion to endorse as submitted. >> I'll second. All

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>> in favor? >> I could have used. Thank you. Don't do it all this easy. I know I think >> 16 If the last person to sign wouldn't mind making sure there's a date on it, the

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registry will need that to record. >> Yep. >> Thank you. Heat. Heat. Is Victoria still on? >> She is. >> I just want to let her know that I will get her recorded copies of these as soon

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as I get them recorded. >> Yeah, Victoria. Very good. Thank you, gentlemen. >> Thank you, John. >> Thank you. Have a good night. >> Good, John. >> All right, moving right along. Uh, continue request for a minor

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modification. 1050 Main Street, Map 7, lot 24. Applicant is a Cushion Solar LLC Mexamp. Representative Kevin Connley with Mails and Thomas, Inc. The scope of the work is proposed modification related to

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storm water and emergency access. Please introduce yourself for the record. >> All right. Uh my name is Evan Connley from Bills and Thomas here on behalf of Christian Solar LLC. Um we are here to continue our discussion with you guys about the storm water ponding at the

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site entrance of 1050 Main Street. Uh the solar project there. Um we submitted a minor project modification letter to the board on March 25th which was uh provided to me Engineering for peer

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review. Uh we received the response letter from Merill Engineering this week uh which noted that the proposed storage volumes will compensate for the elevated access road that was installed. Um I

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think that is pretty straightforward. Um I think I'll turn it over to you guys if you have any comments, questions, anything about the letter or about the proposed modifications. Well, gentlemen, as you know, this is something that's been back and forth

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with us over the past couple of years. Um, and this is basically what I wanted to see was, you know, something to help alleviate the water issue in the front. Um, thank you for doing that. Uh, we did

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send it out to peer review. Peer review came back, the letters in your p your booklets, gentlemen. beer review came back uh saying that the calculations were adequate for this was added storage for the elevated drive for the elevated road. Um

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yeah, that's all I was waiting for was to hear back from peer review. Your calculations are good. Let's hope that it all works out and we don't have any issues uh going forward. Uh so far this year, we haven't had those torrential rains, but so far this year has been

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fairly decent. I've seen some ponding in the road in the in that area, >> but um that's been typical for years. >> Uh it's it's those, you know, so those 100redyear storms that they talk about >> that uh we got to worry about, but this should

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>> uh help if not alleviate that. Now, refresh my memory, those two pipes that are going across, they're going to be well, I know there's one there now. >> Mhm. >> Is that going to be lowered at all? Cuz right now it's about a foot above grade. >> Yeah. So I think the intent is that these two pipes will be right at the

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bottom of these two Yeah. depress depression areas so that water can >> to go across and and then work its way down. >> Yeah, >> I'm good. >> Yeah, me too. I think this is totally going to alleviate the whole problem up there actually. >> So yeah, I'm good with it.

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I make a motion to approve the minor modification of plan set dated October 17th, 2025, storm water control exhibit figure number one dated 32526 2026. >> I second that. >> Got a motion there. Second. All in

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favor? I >> I >> thank you for your help, gentlemen. >> Appreciate it. >> Appreciate it. >> Thank you very much. Yeah, I just stick it in the corner. >> Good night. >> Thank you. Have a good night. >> I always do my best when I don't talk at

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all. All right, moving right along. Oh, this is what I'm looking for. Okay, it's okay. Moving on. We have a public hearing uh

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public hearing. Could I get a motion to wave the reading of the public hearing notice? >> I make a motion to wave the reading of the public hearing notice. >> Second it. >> All in favor? >> I >> I thank you. I didn't feel like you did that long thing. Anyways, uh so

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basically this is um planning board will hold a public hearing consider a proposed amendment to the town of Aushna general bylaw article 8 zoning section 7.2

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flood plane overlay district. The proposed amendment is summarized as follows to include flood A zones. So basically, it's in our bylaw already, but they are just going to add the

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letter A and AO to the zones that are already there. We have A1-30, AH, AE. We have all these other zones. We're just adding two other zones that were accidentally

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not added in the very beginning. It's basically as simple as that. We're not changing anything. We're not uh >> truly a typo. >> It's a typo. Yeah, basically. Uh Victoria, did I get that relatively right? Oh, yeah. She's got it up on the board right now.

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>> Uh did I miss anything? Yeah, the one thing I will add um is that this was um the state is uh reaching out to all the surrounding communities who adopted their model bylaw with that error to make sure that we update it and uh to reflect the

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change. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. So that is that. So any questions regarding that before we close the public hearing? >> No. >> No questions. Good. I get a motion to

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close the public hearing. >> I make a motion to close the public hearing and recommend adoption at annual town meeting. I second it. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Fabulous. All right. Moving right along.

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Continued discussion on amending the business village district. We are going to continue this to future meetings. Victoria uh is not with us today and we don't have a we have a couple of members missing. Uh like I had mentioned in the past, this is something that when we

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have um time when Victoria has time to add to it, then we will discuss. But at the moment, we're going to continue this onto the future meeting. Uh next is discussion and vote on the complete streets policy recommendation.

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The planning board commit committed to adopting a policy last year prior to the funds being awarded for the CS prioritization plan that we currently are working on. The the propose of this

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policy is to ensure the town is making streets safer for all roadway users. Bikes pedestrian committee policy. Uh, Victoria, you want to add anything to this?

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>> Yeah, I'd say that's a good summary. Um, I know the board discussed this, I think, a few times last year. Um, we had submitted a letter of intent to MASDOT prior to receiving funding for the prioritization plan, which we're um finalizing now. Um, and we did also

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submit um that memo to the select board as well. Um, so this is just kind of finalizing that policy. I did reach out to DPW and the bike and ped committee to see if they could review the policy and um if we'd have their support. I haven't

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heard from DPW yet, but the bike and ped um safety committee did um support the policy. >> Okay. >> So this So then we're just going to go right into the next one and make a vote on it. Correct.

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Yeah, but if there's no questions on the pol policy, then I would um recommend a a motion to uh recommend adoption by the select board. >> Are there any questions, gentlemen? Nope. Nope. >> Any questions with anybody in Zoom, which I don't think there's anybody

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there. Uh >> make a motion to recommend adoption by the board as select. I'll second it. All >> in favor? I >> fabulous. All right. uh discussion and vote on articles of the

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town annual town meeting warrant. So we have two um articles going to the warrant. one is the one we just discussed and voted on. And the second is another thing that

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we've also uh discussed uh here is the the the when a solar company comes in and they want to um cut a bunch of trees down to put the solar, we in the bylaw states that they're required to replant

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the trees. um somewhere else. Well, we came into a situation where we really didn't have any other location for the proponent to plant his trees. So, we are going to uh start a fund.

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Bear with me while I look ahead here. For some reason, I can't open it. I can't find mine. Thank you very much. The name of the It's a revolving fund, a land management fund. Um

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these are so when people when proponents can't plant trees, then they would pay the town for the trees that they are cutting down that they can't replant. Uh payments are made to the planning board by the applicant to offset the tree

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clearing. Uh the use of the fund is for supplies, equipment costs, general maintenance, and supplementing grant applications for the purpose of improving open space and recreation. As of right now, we have uh about $7,500

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waiting to be put into this uh fund. This is something that has to go to town meeting, approved by the select board, and then voted on at town meeting. Um, but I think in the future it will definitely help uh with any kind of

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modifications or plantings that any uh town owned property aka Paul Park or um here in you know the town square if we need anything. Uh this is what that fund would be used for.

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Victoria, what did I miss? >> No. Yeah, that pretty much covered it. know is a good explan explanation. One thing I will add is that with this type of account, it's a revolving fund. We will have to do a yearly article that

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appropriates, you know, x amount of funds that we want to use that year. It doesn't mean we have to spend it, but the town's people do need to approve whatever amount we're planning on spending for that fiscal year. >> Gotcha. Um Okay.

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Um, come on in. >> Sorry. >> I will set >> make a motion to submit both articles for consideration on the town meeting. >> I second that. >> Got a motion. We got a second. All in favor?

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>> I I unanimous. Um, and then there is a public uh upcoming public outreach event. Um, Victoria, I want to talk about that real quick. >> Yes, thank you. Um, so as you, as I

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mentioned at the last meeting, we are wrapping up the complete streets prioritization plan. Um, so based on over a hundred uh survey results and our first public workshop, we've developed over um about 30 project ideas um about

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how we can improve safety of our roadways. Um, this includes missing sidewalk connections, ADA curb ramps, um, you know, intersection safety, those types of things. Um, so we're having our final public workshop to get feedback on the list of projects on April 22nd at

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6:00 p.m. at the police station uh, conference room. There will be a brief presentation and then we would welcome any and all public feedback. Um, if you're unable to attend the workshop, there is a link to our project web page.

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Um, and you can fill out the survey that way. Of course, you can contact the planning board office. >> Okay. Thank you very much. Well, we made a we had a vote to um adopt the flood

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plane bylaw. Can I get a motion for the land management revolving fund? We did that, didn't we? >> Yeah. >> Did we do both of them? Yes, >> we did both. Yes, we did. >> Oh, I'm sorry. I thought we just did the one. All right. So, we did both. They both been voted on. Uh, we talked about

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the public outreach. Um, and that pretty much wraps that up. Our next meeting is Thursday, May 7th. Does anybody have anything to discuss? Uh, nothing else has come up to the planning board for the last 48 hours.

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Any else? Anybody like to bring up, discuss or comment on? Our next meeting is May 7th. I will entertain a motion. >> I make a motion to adjourn the planning board meeting. >> I will second. >> All in favor? >> I.

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>> Thank you very much. Have a good night.