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e e e e e f e just give me a [Applause] signal good evening welcome to the Danver Conservation Commission meeting
for March 13 2025 as a commission we operate under the Massachusetts General Law chapter 131 section 40 of the wetlands protection act in chapter 26 six of the T of Danver General bylaw the Wetland to protection
bylaw after each applicant presents his or her request and the board has had time to ask questions and discuss the project will accept questions from the audience because this is a public meeting is required by law that you give your name and address before you speak
although we may disagree on issues raised all persons present during this meeting are expected to be civil to all other the meeting attendees this includes the members of the commission staff Butters concerned citizens property owners and project applicants
we also request that you conf find your questions to the project and only as it pertains to the wetlands act we cannot handle nor do we have jurisdiction regarding such things as noise or traffic our problems not related to the wetlands protection act in the town of the am's wetlands protection bylaw must
be taken up with other appropriate boards our first order of business will be a rule call Peter Wilson is present Lorraine dreek Mary hate present Michael Spain yeah uh okay the first item on our
agenda is a request for a certificate of compliance for 24 through 42 Cherry Hill Drive uh the applicant is AB omed uh is there someone joining us yep the the applicant team is present remotely hi good evening I'm from a high
point engineering and D here also from uh High Point engineering good evening thanks for joining us thanks for having us Michael Hood from Ab okay could someone just give us an overview of what the project entailed
and I presume everything is compl there were some minor changes correct yeah so I'm I'm I'm here on of Med to request a certificate of compliance for the project which included a parking lot expansion the installation of a pedestrian bridge and
storm water improvements um throughout the construction we conducted multiple site visits to ensure the compliance with the approved plans and permit conditions um based on our observations and the asilt plan that was conducted uh we can confirm that the project has been
completed in a substantial compliance with the order of conditions um yeah so there was some there was uh some minor changes so there was a minor change to the Transformer area um there was two spots that um
needed to be changed to um Landscaping to allow some for some ballards um for protection but it didn't um compromise the parking um count on site so
any questions uh you to visit the site Emily yes yep visited the site no concerns um well there was one concern with the uh snow storage yeah this winter and the applicant has submitted a temporary snow storage plan that shows everything
outside of the 100 foot buffer zone okay and does anyone care to comment on why snow was stored in a spot right underneath the sign said no sto no snow storage I can comment that to you Michael Hood
Abed okay um the reason the snow was there is we're having issues with snow removal with the present contractor so we have now McCarthy Landscaping handling all the snow removal and a review of this copy of this no buffer zone that was uh
received from High Point so it's all cleared out now and understood going to be going forward okay good good to hear that uh question was one of the bridges part of this project or was it just all the parking lot uh one of the bridges and
the parking okay so when the first Bridge was installed five or more years ago Mike you probably recall this uh there was a similar order of conditions and what was the snow storage provision in that that was uh snow cannot be stored near resource areas and must be stored on
landscape Islands or taken off site and and no snow storage signs must be placed in applicable areas as outlined by the Conservation Commission staff okay and are there signs there now because the reason I asked is I drove by there you know sometime this winter and on the the
um as I look at it from the street the left hand side which was the the first order of conditions there was all kinds of snow stored along you know the U the corridor where the the wetlands are so has that been addressed as part of your snow removal uh
modifications yes it has with the landscapers it has been okay all that snow was hauled out I mean it's you know it's it's just a detail we just you know Bears watching
you know there's probably not a whole lot of detriment to it but just whatever salt or chemicals are in that snow Finds Its way into the wetlands and we don't want to see that um no understood 100% Mike do you have any questions yeah uh
just for staff is there adequate signage there as far as the snow U signs yep all the signs are there exactly as noted on the plan so everything is where it's supposed to be for the signage um even on the other side yeah everything up you know this yeah Y and
for uh the applicant so the the contractor will be informed as to what they can and can't do is that was that the problem before or were they just ignoring the the signs the present contractor was
ignoring the signs and with McCarthy now who has a copy of this um and we walked it with him this year and he understands 100% now where where the snow can temporarily be put until we haul it off I mean we can't haul it off during the
snowstorm but there is spots we can put it so we can haul it off the next day thank you um uh with regards to expanding the parking lot was that to acquire more parking spaces mhm so I I know it says about the
Transformer but did you add spaces as well with this whole parking lot development we did correct and so you uh it wasn't just a shift of 9 ft you added 9 ft to the parking right Darnell can you answer that one I
wasn't 100% sure on that so so what um Dell Baptist project manager uh for the project so what happened was is based on the the uh requirements for Ballard
spacing um we had to expand the island that encroached upon some parking spaces so I I want to say we we um lost probably two potentially of the proposed design but the the overall parking
requirements um we we exceeded by a good a large amount um so parking requirements is is is not an issue but to answer your question directly I think we may have lost like one or two from our proposed original design so the 9 ft it's not 9 ft in Direction but how many
square feet did you add um I would say N9 by if you say 9 by 18 * 2 what's that uh so what 300 square
feet yep close yeah I would say about 300 Square F feet and that that's all all our standards yeah yep everything is totally fine I had um I chatted with planning staff about the parking spaces they had no concerns there everything is
still totally in compliance all right um that was all the questions I had thank you Mary any questions I just wanted to check in to see um the individuals that or the company that's taking the snow and putting it in one location you mentioned that it won't stay there that
it would get removed is that something that's in place or that you're planning no that's in place now so it does temporarily get there and then it's removed yeah during the snow excuse me during the storm it will be sorry during
the storm it'll be piled in one location and then the next day it'll be hauled off or the next night I should say sorry all right thank you so much you're welcome okay um this is not a public hearing correct right um so if someone can make a motion
we can put these people on their way I'll make a motion that we issue an order of conditions certificate I'm sorry I'm sorry scratch that I make a motion that we approve the CER uh a certificate issue a certificate of
compliance for 24-42 Cherry Hill Drive D file number 14- 1389 um with the conditions one moment uh with the following conditions
uh which will continue in perpetuity uh which are listed as item 16 177 18 I'm just going to summarize item 16 deals with storm water best management practices item 17 deals with inspection of catch catch basins and
cleaning and item 18 uh applies to applicants owners and successes to maintain all covids basins traps Etc so those are the three conditions that will will remain in perpetuity uh that's the motion thank
you Mike is there a second I second the motion all in favor I I okay good thank you next up is thank you have a good night thank you thank you you too good luck uh 191 Old Burley Street a
certificate of compliance the applicant is Beverly Regional Airport commission uh and who's here to represent the the airport hi I'm here my name's Joe Rogers I'm with GC G environmental scientists
and also on the line is Craig Schuster from ASG okay could you just give a a quick summary of what the project entailed absolutely yes so the project uh is is pretty much entirely related to the replacement of the old fence line
around the perimeter of uh the airport property uh within within the town um the goal of the project was to replace in in the uh same location slightly interior to the existing fence line or
uh actually bring uh the fence line a little bit closer into the the runway itself throughout that about 7,000 linear feet of um property boundary the work started a little bit
towards the May 21st I think was the notification that work was about to start and there was a site walk at that point in and a work was completed um and a s sidewalk took place in July 3rd of 2024 so is this fence the entire
perimeter of the airport uh not the entire perimeter no um a good portion of uh the Beverly uh Town fence line and um not all I'd say a little more than half of
the fence within uh D okay but what we saw was pretty much what uh was within our jurisdiction that yeah I guess that's a southern end probably Eastern um well yeah I'm
sorry um okay and as I recall this project was where they put the Timbers down in the the Wetland so that heavy equipment could drive over it and then uh they were removed as the the work was
done uh and all those timers are are have been removed correct yeah and Emily you had told me that you were out there last summer sometime yeah we were out there myself and Brian Z Kelly were out there on July 3rd and walked to the site everything looked fine okay and
everything's done tided up yes yes okay uh okay any questions Mike uh yeah just on the um there were special conditions attached to the uh
order of conditions one was the uh the existing concrete foot footings from the previous fence must be removed uh was that done um I was told that that yes taken place yes Joe yes they were Port
solution group yes they were they were removed in the old fencing itself and the old the F fencing and theing get anchored into the fings so did you just cut the fence off and leave the footings or did you actually
remove the footings no we actually removed them and then fill the holes I'm sorry what did you say we actually removed the whole footing and then filled the holes you did okay yes all right that was my question cuz that was a a special condition that was all I
had thank you and how long did this project take it was very short timeline well about six weeks yeah within 60 45ish 60 yeah 45 to 60 days okay good Mary do you have any
questions I'm good thank you um order certificate of compliance now okay if someone wants to make a yeah go ahead I'll make a motion um to issue a certificate of compliance for 191 Old
berley Street D number 4- 1347 with conditions in perpetuity as noted on the order of conditions item number 37 item number 37 and that's within 30 days of completion of
construction um all distributed areas in the completed portion of the site shall be permanently stabilized and it sounds like you guys have done all of that um yeah motion been made is there a second second all in favor I
I okay all said Thank you thank you thank you good night good night uh old and new business uh the minutes from our January 23rd meeting the opportunity to review those
seems they've been on for three meeting agendas and if so someone can make a motion that we would accept them I'll make a motion that we accept the uh minutes for the January 23rd meeting I second the motion all in favor
I I okay anything else Emily any news um nope next meeting is going to be April 10th there's no meeting on March 27th um I am expecting there's been more activity in town hall lately I'm expecting some new nois coming in so things are going to start picking up
again for us and uh a potential new member for us there was a scheduling conflict um he ended up having to work late on Thursday and thought he could make it but won't be able to so we're still still looking so if you guys know anyone we're out as a c we're actively searching for another board member a
full-time member uh wanted to ask staff about the uh the superseding order of conditions that you s US ah yeah any oh go ahead yeah the was there something attached to that beyond the letter the
decision it was just a p it was like Pages 16 through 20 yeah weren't down there so no they were there but just I only read his letter so what was done um any inquiries would have to go through the state any questions on it have to go
through the state but you looked at it right it's I did I didn't have a chance to look at it too thoroughly today but any any more in-depth questions would have to go right through the state for that so there's any questions on like how things were issued or any verbiage
or any of the conditions um if you want to send me an email with your questions I can forward them over to the state but I I just was wondering if it required anything additional from what we no from you guys no that was my question okay I see I see yeah no no
that was pretty straight forward that's it then all right who wants to make the final motion make a motion to adjourn I second the motion all in favor all okay good thank you was good thanks for coming out
guys hey Emily I have question maybe you just yeah