be a real quick meeting if we don't get quum. [Music] Okay. So, none of our attendees look like there are >> no questioners. So, Joel and had a um whoever was just saying that which which property street
Railroad Street declined to extend. So the only um >> the only property before us is Bridge Street. >> What happened to Railroad Street? So they needed to be the decision had to be
issued within a certain amount of time and in order to extend that time you have to get written permission from the property owner and they declined to do so which means that the demolition is constructively granted. They get the demolition because we were unable to hold a hearing in time.
>> Oh >> yeah, >> which does happen on occasion. >> That was in pretty rough shape anyways. That barn. >> Yeah. In fact, the building commissioner was very eager to get them to take it down.
>> Okay. >> I just heard from Pat is not coming. >> Okay. So, I don't know about Kenzie or >> Yeah. And they're new and they might have missed >> Yeah. >> this being out of cycle. send out a calendar thing for this meeting walker
like you know add it to the calendar so that it sends a reminder >> send it as an outlook you know outlook >> holds hands with Gmail and >> I could yeah I I haven't typically done that >> always resend because
>> I just find the town website really hard to find things that I need in a hurry um Uh, and I actually only realized we had a meeting tonight um
by looking at uh the Ammeris bulletin. Um, not the Ammeris bulletin, the one of the weekly meeting things. >> Yeah. And I'll be honest, Teddy is the one who keeps me on schedule. >> Yeah. I think me either
>> rescheduling it. >> Yeah. I just think that and that may be why other people aren't here tonight because they simply are not >> going to know um unless you treat us as if we're you know 5year-olds or something. I don't mean that.
>> Yeah. And I think the Outlook helps too because you know if there's a change or if it's canceled you can do all of that with I mean I don't like Outlook as kind of like a you know outdated program but I I do use it at work and I think it's calendar function is pretty
effective in that regard to like keep everybody on the same page. You can put the Zoom info in there. You can attach documents which is really helpful. >> Yeah, that's what we use at work too and it it does it does work. >> Okay. So, yeah, I can start doing that going
forward. How long do we usually wait before we call a meeting? >> Um, I mean, I can I don't know if anybody has their contact info. Um, >> I don't have anybody's number. >> Yeah. And they should have got the emails already. So,
>> right. >> Let's give them till at least 7:15 or 7:20. >> Yeah, that's what I would say. 7:15. >> And then, >> is there any business we can do? Um or while we wait. >> Um >> um we don't have a quorum.
>> Yeah, >> I know. >> So I don't think so. >> I took some photographs of the art barn at UMass. That's going to come down presumably. >> Sounds like it because they're not they're not subject to the the delay. So
>> Right. Right. >> Are they requesting um time in front of us? No, they just sent the project notification form to MHC and we got a copy. >> Okay. >> But yeah, we get MHC's response.
>> I haven't seen a response yet. >> Okay. >> It's interesting. like, you know, obviously it was a much bigger building, but when the horse the big horse barn that's now on North Pleasant Street that they moved um opposite Presidential
Apartments um that was I don't I'm trying to remember when that was moved, but the art barn is a is a like a mini a mini version of that big horse barn, but much less ornate. Um much less
>> um but with a nice scam roof. And uh it'll be a shame to see it go cuz everything around it is sort of high fairly high tech kind of boxy um or green houses. It's an interesting
part of campus that is um you have to really know your way around to find >> Where is it on campus? Um the best way I can describe it is that it's near the parking garage but on the other side of
the street behind um the Stockbridge the original Stockbridge building. So Al auditorium is so if you kind of drop down from behind the >> theater um you're sort of in the in the
neighborhood um like Yeah. But obviously at one point it was used for by artists by art students. >> Yeah. It's very interesting history that
>> Yeah. But it's a it's a sign of of the rural origins of the campus and I don't think I don't think anyone's I mean I'm just talking now cuz you know here we are waiting for our >> Yeah. And technically they're not going
to come before us. So >> Yeah. Exactly. So, I can just shoot my mouth off. But it's just it's it I was just thinking the other day like what does it take for people to come to campus and not realize, you know, that there are buildings that date from a
time period when the university was serving a largely agricultural society that was transitioning to an industrial society. And that that won't be something that we will read in the buildings. We might access
>> South Hall. They did a good job preserving South South Hall. >> Was that >> they did a good job preserving South Hall? >> Yes, those are beautiful. And there's a couple other there's the one outside the little buildings outside um one of the
which um eating eating hall uh as you drive through the center of campus like there's the if you're driving north towards you head you've got the um campus center on your left on the right there's a small agricultural or small
build old old small building in front of I think it's Webster Hall or something like that. There's another one to the right that I think connects into Letterly these two. >> Okay. >> They're very dimminionative buildings. Yeah. Sort of interesting. I mean,
>> I was so fascinating when we Joel when Hetti and I went to the um Do Momo, which is documenting modern I can't remember. It's basically the group that focuses on modernist construction and brutalism. So all that
concrete on the um on the UMass campus is brutalist architecture and um I attended a session that talked about how you know because when you look at the UMass campus you're like where did all these where and why did all
these cement buildings come up right that's really the you know the the image of the campus I mean it's shifting a little bit now as new construction gets built um and it is because in the late 60s and early 70s there was this population boom of
college students and so there's a lot of federal money out there to help colleges particularly land grant colleges expand to absorb this big uh I don't know if it was part of the baby boom um and that
was also the moment for brutalist architecture so it's a really great example of like understanding architectural history understanding what we would call the context. You know, the context wasn't that people necessarily liked brutalism, but it was the
architecture of the era and it was a moment when the money came in, you know, and that's a lot of, you know, a lot of times what you see is, you know, what what pushes, you know, the construction of a town. Well, if a factory goes up and there are a lot of jobs and then you're going to have a lot of housing
and that housing is going to reflect the architecture of the day. self the same sort of thing. The campus center is constructed by is it Marcel Brewer? Is that right? >> Yeah. I mean it's you know really pretty substantial architect and I you know I
was laughing at this session that um you know that UMass had yet again uh redone its logo featuring the chapel which I think is you know one of the least representative buildings of the campus and I was like it's time for us
to stand with the brutalism you know >> although Robin it's interesting with the with the chapel the chapel has been through some really interesting restoration and preservation. >> Oh, absolutely. >> It's it's kind of served like three or four different functions. Really
different functions. >> Yes. No, I mean I think >> so in a way I understand why they keep hanging on to it. But >> Right. Right. But I just think it's like, you know, visually I think it's okay to embrace embrace that architectural period. >> Yeah. Well, what's the time now? 7:15.
>> 7:15. >> I don't think anybody's coming, guys. >> Yep. Yeah, I think they missed the memo. >> Yeah. >> So, do you have somebody from Bridge Street in the attendees? Do we want to let them in? >> Yeah. So, >> Ben,
>> Zach has got his hand up. Oh, hand down. >> What we need to do is um request a continuation of the hearing and we're going to need that in writing from you. So, I will send you an email tomorrow.
>> In writing for me? No, from the homeowner. >> Oh, okay. Who is the homeowner? >> Uh, Zach, are you the homeowner? I can let them. >> Yeah. Can you let Zach in? >> Yeah. Hello. >> Hello. >> Hi, Zach. Apologies for the confusion
here. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So, um, so, uh, request a continuation for a meeting. Okay. >> Yeah. So, I can um send you an email tomorrow and you can just confirm and then we can reschedu this.
Uh >> what's our deadline on this particular permit? >> Remember, I can look it up right quick. Oh, with if we have a written request for continuation, we can go past the deadline. Oh, >> okay.
So, it's just what time works for everybody. >> Okay. >> And don't we have a date scheduled for our October meeting? >> We do not yet. >> Okay. We probably should. E.
>> That would be a thing to do. >> I think that would be a good thing to do to >> Okay. >> Get get it scheduled. So, so, oh yeah, the hearing for this one was due tonight. So, um we will it or was
due tomorrow, so we will need the extension. And I just ask um since we're getting into the colder months with the proposed construction um hypothetically if there isn't a quorum next time um how do these
things proceed? >> Then you could deny the extension. You could make the choice to deny the extension. >> Yeah, that's what I was going to ask. So the applicant has the right to say >> has the right to say he doesn't want >> today don't want to go forward.
>> So that's up to you Zach. >> Okay. >> You can either request an extension or I guess then then it was of tomorrow it would be constructively granted. Okay. >> Yeah. So then we don't have a say in it at that point. Um and then it would go on to your special permit hearing.
>> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Thanks for coming. Yep. >> No problem. All right. Talk to you later. >> Yep. >> Um, so the 13th or >> the 13th is a holiday.
>> Oh yeah, the 13th. >> That's the only thing. Uh although we do usually I guess this six is pretty soon out. >> Yeah. I mean >> do you want me to >> aside from this project which may or may not get extended. We don't have
anything. >> Okay. Um, let me >> Can I share my screen with you guys for a second? >> Sure. >> So, I think you need to give me some permissions there.
>> Work. All right. Can you all see this uh poll in front of you? >> Yes. >> Okay. So, this is my preferred polling um platform
and I know that Joel tried to respond um and uh and then I didn't hear from anybody else. So, um I just wanted to go through with Head and Walker and uh Joel to show to walk you through. Basically,
you click on the link, it should bring you here. I had the barn at the wrong address, but um you type in your name and then when you come over to each of these boxes, you can choose um green is like totally
fine. Red is I can't do it. Yellow is just if you have a a date that you can do but you don't prefer and then um question mark is just not voting right. So um
you would just click all your choices. I don't know why it's looking black and white. Hold on. Let me just like should That's better. There we go. So you check click your choices all the way across. um
like that and then um then you have to click save. That's the this little button under your name is what makes it go through. And now you
can see Hed's votes have been recorded. So, uh hopefully that's helpful. I'd like to be able to use this as we go forward to either schedule meetings or site visits. Um, it makes it easier for me to, you know, because then I can look on and see how many people line up and
it's just a cleaner platform than Doodle, which I know people are familiar with. But that's basically it. This little save button. That's key. >> Bobby, did you send that to me? Because I have I didn't get it if you sent it to me. >> Okay. I'll um I thought I did. I thought I sent it to everybody, but maybe
something happened in the interim, but in any regard, >> just so going forward. >> Yeah. um >> what it looks like. >> What it looks like, how you click, uh what your choices are, and the fact that you put your name in, you have to click save. It's kind of basically it.
>> Okay. >> Um and >> whatever works for you, boss. >> Yeah, thanks. Do you want me to pull people on a meeting date, Walker? >> Sure. Um yeah, any Monday other than the
13th is fine in October. So, >> okay. We don't we don't have a hear a new hearing. So, we could do it as early as next week because I don't have to post. >> Okay. >> You know, a legal ad or anything. So, >> okay. Um, and I see that there's two
attendees. So, just uh for people in the audience, just a reminder that we didn't actually have a public hearing or public meeting here today. Uh, so let the record show. >> Yeah, that's basically it. Okay. I'll get >> I would just say that I'm uh submitting
the two CPA applications tomorrow for the historical >> Okay, great. >> the um more headstone restoration um because >> Okay, >> they've been doing a good job, but there's a lot more to do and uh relocating the
Civil War tablets and >> um ensuring that the room actually works to preserve them and like is set up to >> right >> make sure they last. >> Great. What was the first one, Walker? >> Um, a continuation of the headstone restoration work going on in North and
South. Yeah. >> Excellent. >> We're also next week going to be getting quotes for the fence. >> Great. >> Okay, great. >> Bye. >> See you. >> Bye everybody. Watch for an email from me. Okay. Bye. Thanks for