hey I'm G to call the Tuesday March 4th 2025 meeting of the is metal planning board those in attendance are Bill fansa Russell Denver candre cherell uh Pete punderson are you
there's nobody there I think he's somewhere there accept it he'll accept it there is sure yeah Mr punderson can you put your camera on and unmute can you hear us
okay I can hear you now okay thank you and we're so you're here then yes I'm here I don't know how to turn my camera on how do I do that do that before share screen no there should be a video that you just
click on a camera camera camera icon or you can just say you have a face radio there you go hey there you are okay so uh I'm required by Master General law to ask if there's anyone in
the audience who might be recording uh this meeting if so please state your name and the method you are recording hearing none we can move forward so the first item of business is is the approval of the February 18 2025 meeting
minutes you have a motion to approve so move do a second second any discussion hearing none all in favor say I I I so I'd like to have a motion to take the public or to take out of order so we can get these distinguished gentlemen in
front of us first so if we could take get a motion to take case spw 20251 out of order so move have a second second any discussion hearing none all in favor say I hi Mr clerk would you
please call the item case sprw d225 d01 request for site plan review waiver for minor alterations to the veterans memorial which was previously approved by the site plan review site- 2020-01 at 328 North Main Street
assessor parcel ID 13-1 a-0 located in the commercial Zone District applicant town of Islam M 60 Center Square Islam M Mass 01 01028 gentlemen who wants to present I'm happy to present Kevin Ro
architecture El we have our esteemed committee here Terry uh can speak on behalf of the committee if need be um or [Laughter] interested um I'll give a short presentation if that's okay and we have
a have a bunch of handouts if you need copies of what was submitted um we just printed out a bunch of paper I think you're going to find a very favorable group of people yeah so so want to just dot our eyes so here is a a upside
down of uh what was permitted a few years ago we uh we we initially met with the the committee to design the memorial for um East Long Meadow we took it through Design This was a
rendered site plan that we presented at the time we backed it up with all the construction documents um and the since then we've worked through and survived covid we've uh fundraised and now we're getting close so what we're bringing to
the table today is a modest revision to this uh and that's what we just want to present to the uh the committee let me just adjust this so the application that we submitted today and this is a a a preliminarily
rendered site plan similar In Vein to the original just not 3D with the trees so what we are presenting is a a slight reduction in terms of the scope relative North which was that kind of the tree
lined um arcade that has been pulled back uh obviously we've been working uh to fundra ra and control budget and manage increasing costs one chases the other um so we've reduced and Consolidated the scope uh to the
southern portion of the site right in front here which we all know uh the the the core of it is meant to retain the star meant to retain the court uh the what's in documents you have in your planting plan this side of the ellipse
will uh basically be framed with a planted hedro star is some flattening from before since at nothing has recessed some of the details have been simplified um we still maintain a line
of 10 Flags right nine nine nine flag polls 10 Flags there we go so the 10 flags on nine poles and when we met with Rob this was one of the very few substantive differences in the permit application a structure which the bylaw
repr FL so before we had eight Flags now we're one um so we have the row Flags uh and we have some Bol here which is different uh divisions of service and then within the star itself we have
monuments uh in a similar fashion to the uh original which are oriented around the edges of the star so the star forms a FAA with a battlecross in the center of the star uh a bench uh located adjacent to the battlecross bench on the
North and South portions of the ellipse um and then with a primary stone that abuts Main Street so that stone on one side would uh denote the the Veterans Memorial to the PS by and on the inside would have a plaque um commemorating the
the officers of the board that spend years building this so this uh diagram here these are early representations of what each memorial stone would look like so basically it's a slab about 5 feet wide 54 or so inches tall meant to have
a slight champer on it with lettering that represents each of the major conflicts and then lists of the individual to V their all each of these conflicts so the the short version of the administrative review is us getting
ready to move uh do construction finalize some drawings capitalize on the funding that we've got in place simplifying the design a little bit adding the one flag pole uh while still preserving uh a place that is one
of dignity and honor and commemorates all the veterans that's probably a quick presentation okay any questions from the board anyone else wish to speak on the matter sure yeah i' just like to say
that uh fundraising since 2018 we've overcome many challenges uh besides us all having Co at one time or another so we went virtually two years without being able to physically have a fundraising event
so we uh took up the slack through writing grants and uh contributions from the general public and our legislators helped us out immensely and uh matter of fact just got another $125,000 very good J oliv very good so
I'd say we're on the 10 yard line okay and the bulldozer sitting outside with no Manning nobody's Manning it right okay so that's exactly what we're going to do but uh okay you know thank you for all your consideration and it's G to honor 20 East long metal
veterans uh World War I up through the whole terce those those names inscribed on the uh on the wars very good and everything so if you want to help us
out here's H here's pvers I love it anybody is instructions are on there okay uh you can just mail your check $125 post office box on there and okay I'll shake your hand you should have
waited for the vote's a perpet any question any questions from the board good do I have a motion to approve the amendment don't move have a second second any discussion hearing none all
in favor say I I I motion passes best of luck very good Mr clerk next item thank you take care all uh Cas s-225 03 request for Amendment to the special permits sp-
20114 sp- 2019-06 and sp- 201907 bnw asan Cuisine Inc for the change of ownership of the restaurant business known as tals Asian cuisine at 31 Park AV assessor paral ID 12- 33-0
located in the business zoning District look DW Asian Cuisine Inc uh 1441 Main Street Su 1100 Springfield Mass 0110 so I attended the town council meeting last week so I heard the presentation let's hope you are as brief tonight as
you were last Monday so I will try Mr uh thank you Mike Fenton Attorney At The law offices of Shad Schwarz and Fenton 1441 Main Street here on behalf of dnw Asian Cuisine Inc uh and its principal mindong uh as you indicated Mr chair uh
last week the Town Council approved the liquor license transfer uh the reason that we're before you is the existing special permit runs to the petitioner only as I know you're familiar with in town and uh we're here to request a special permit in the name of the
proposed new owner dnw Asian Cuisine uh Mr dong has experience in running similar facilities uh without incident specifically in the City of Springfield Asian barbecue which is a facility that opened up on Boston Road uh there are no proposed changes to the site plan or the
use Mr dong intends to keep the name of the facility and wishes to keep as many employees uh employed at that site uh as possible he'd like to continue the rich colonary tradition that's been established by the current owners Jonathan and his family um and continue
it as a great resource for the town of eung meow and its visitors great so this is a public hearing so do I have a motion to open the public hearing have a second Che any discussion hearing none all in favor of open public hearing say I I I is there do we have questions for
the petitioner is there anyone in the audience or on Zoom that would like to be heard on this matter hearing none so Rob do you want to add something no I was gonna um proed after you're done with the comment I can
um suggest what to do next to the board okay all right um let me just then have a motion to close the public hearing so moved second any discussion hearing none all in favor of closing the public public hearing say I I passes Rob all
right so uh in your permit application report that's in front of you uh there's two things that the Board needs to take vote on the first of which is to accept these findings that were detailed in this report unless you have any disagreements with the findings that are in there these findings are specifically
from the special per section of our bylaw and this petition meets all those other thing is to read and to record the conditions worth discussing and where the board has agreement with those conditions those are conditions that are pulled from past permits property ones
that made sense to keep for the amendment um as yeah can mention they are amending a previous special permit uh the original was 2011-04 amending both of those previous that's all okay so you just
kind of like over there um so can you direct our clerk to what he needs to read into the yep so um it's up to you Mr chair if you want to read to the specific findings or if you rather just take a vote on them Al together I would somebody needs to make a motion to accept the findings for this I make U so
moved you have a second second I read that yep yeah okay all in favor say I hi I I don't oppose hearing none so they pass but there was the question on the parking so is that one thing that we just need to do we need to revote waving
the parking requirements not necessarily so uh the board does have legal authority to wave any and all parking requirements in the zoning bylaw but because they're not doing any construction it doesn't seem necessary okay uh unless there's been noticeable issues of traffic in the area but I haven't heard anything think so so than
that I'd say just read the conditions into record if you agree with them and then uh go from there why you point it out to Rob last page here it's number six conditions worth discussing yeah and the list time goes down all the way to the next page the way to seven yep all
the way to seven yep uh conditions worth discussing a special per amendment is granted to meaning any future change in ownership shall require an amendment to the special permit B additions from sp- 2011-04 and sp-
2019-07 shall be null and void conditions in the special permit Amendment sp-22 see no additional seats allowed D any changes to plans shall require the applicant to meet with the planning board to determine whether or not a special
permit amendment is required e any changes to the proposed shall require Amendment to the special Plan F hours of operation shall be as follow Monday through Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 10
o'clock p.m. Sunday 12: p.m. to 9 G the planning board reserves the right to review modif I amend and revoke the special permit during a duly advertised public hearing if the use repesents any detriment to the
neighborhood any serious complaints are filed with the board each all necessary licenses to operate use shall be obtained and kept current active at all times and I all outside lighting shall be screened from shining into the fiding the proper
Shield so sorry go ah do you mind reading the hours again just so we can uh yeah download stuff Monday through Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. 9:30 is current 9:30 it's fine that's fine 9:30
p.m amended uh Friday Saturday 11:30 a to 10 p.m 10:30 currently y okay 10:30 p.m 1030m you don't have outdoor dining right no okay Sunday hours are they 12 to 9: 12
to 9:30 9:30 okay yeah just to add into that well the 9 p.m. normally is for the kitchen so that 30 30 minute window time it's for customer to leave okay 9:30 and at 10:30 is the official time so seating
ends at 9 10 okay exactly kitchen closes at that time yeah kitchen Clos okay so then let's let's amend that then yeah so let's amend that the uh
so the official the official hours of the operation are at not the extra half hour so what was that like what's Monday through Thursday n yeah so the official hours are till nine
o'clock uh well technically speaks 9:30 so they CL their politely so that you know we don't have to stay late for the staff okay okay whatever is I don't know working for you guys I'm pretty familiar
with that site and it's really you know it's within the complex there's no lighting station any the res across the street well you got Big Y on the same side across the street you've got commercial areas right there I don't see a problem with the extra
half hour okay all right different C right okay now you have to vote to adopt those conditions so do I have a motion to adopt the conditions as presented by Terell second any discussion none all in
favor say I I I now on the overall approval of the special permit as amended withs do I have a motion do I have a second second any discussion none all in favor say
I no one's oppos pass thank you thank you very much uh when can we expect to get the written decision from the clerk maybe next week by the end of this week whenever Mr chair is available after this week uh probably later in the week right um I am
in town tomorrow morning and Thursday morning so probably Thursday afternoon latest that'd be great thank you very much uh director's report wow that was 17 minutes that's new record we're not done yet yet we're not out keep it brief
here Rob keep it brief so uh I put the upcoming meeting days for just a heads up on um sorry wait for so on June 3 2025 we do not have a meeting that's Town election day so far that's the only meeting we
don't have scheduled for the whole year that's during normally uh schedule meeting date um two upcoming hearings on April 1st which is not next meeting but the meeting after we do have a special permit hearing for an orthopedic specialist office 265 Benton Drive units
101 and 105 the applicant has operated the site previously but they were unaware that they need a special permit so the special permit is their way of getting into compliance with the zoning bylaw they've been there for some time I believe it's a medical clinic Orthopedic Specialist they have offic over the area
and then we have our massage therapy zoning hearing which is going to be scheduled after that I have to put the legal advertisements for both these hearings uh this one is just a simple deletion of uh section 48.9 and then amending the use table to allow massage
therapy by rights uh upcoming public hearings before the council so the assisted living facilities hearing before them will be heard on March 25th 2025 and it's a long ways from now but that's the only time that worked for them and then the design Review
Committee um as of today we've only and still had one application received from anybody's interested in the committee so this committee could stand in for the design Review Committee yeah if you wanted to yeah okay yeah so I mean we
could try getting like one or two more people if you want then I mean I'll volunteer to to go on it so that's three people so far I would I would do the same you know I can do it well there you go peep underson want join to that's where I started in the
planning board okay there you go he already said he wanted to be on it I know but I think you get someone else as well right uh we have one person who applied yeah okay so person so now you have you that one person Pete Bill myself so we have a
full board okay that works for me what was the deadline on the application it was February 21st but we had extended by I thought you extended it okay we did but nobody else nobody else yeah we might as well get it rolling all right because there will be a couple of things know so sounds good okay I will go ahead
and start the next steps on the tell man what we're supposed to do and then believe we have to interview that one gentleman I mean you guys even want to interview him at this point is it a gentleman or a woman it's a gentleman I know know I I do know a woman who I spoke to who is going to be reaching out
and talking to you as well okay so um I'll wait for that person to reach out to me and I'll board all right um and then the last bit of news uh we did receive grant funding from the state to do a zoning byla overhaul review um we did sign the contract with the state to
begin Hing Consultants um we're going to work on requests for qualifications over the coming weeks and the goal of this zoning bylaw review is to when we're doing our town bylaw Review Committee work that involves zoning to have this consultant do their work at the same
time as that review so we have an expert look over our zoning RS to see where we need to improve um and that's pretty much all I had so what do we have on March 18th nothing as of right now uh the filing deadline for non-public hearing item
is uh next Thursday this coming Thursday or the following Thursday following Thursday okay so as of right now Mr chair I would say if nothing's received by them then s a call early birthday present yeah pressure all right there
you go well you could have a date here or something with you guys um so um just a a kid with Rob Terrell a little bit so Russ continues to throw
potential Russ's rules out at Rob the other Rob and so I did send an email out um or I did ask Rob what the state law was with respect to for uh vehicles for sale on private properties because as
you know I'm a advid walker and I walk all over and sometimes it's just maddening that you see a car sitting on a private property for six months at a time with a for sale sign on it it really looks unsightly so uh Rob did some homework
and um so I think Rob I did not include you in the email because of open meeting you know reasons I asked people just to respond directly to me so there is a majority of people that would like to
pursue something like this so um maybe we could have a fuller discussion on our agenda at our next meeting so do you put on the agenda for the 18th as yeah well 18th or the next meeting yeah the next appropriate meeting because I don't think it's it doesn't make any sense to
bring us together just to discuss no no April 1 it's an idea for research purposes so is this just for selling of vehicles on one's property yes residential property yeah with a time limit and a limit on how
many times you can do it in the course of a year you're gonna be busy with your little notebook not there I'd like to chime in on this I would say that have to be for sale by the owner yeah the person has to the owner of the vehicle I know somebody that
basically has been operating a used car lot out of their front yard so and and the owner of the property in which it's located right yeah absolutely we're all on the same page y okay any other business from where you are Mr
punderson NOP we're and green here okay have a good time yes okay thank you motion to adjourn so moved so moved second okay any discussion hearing
none all in favor say I I I