I will call to order the Wednesday, December 10th, 2025 conservation commission meeting at 6 PM in attendance, Anthony Zampuchini, Elizabeth Stoen, Jason Gumper, and Megan Logan. >> First is the approval of minutes from the 1125 open session.
Did everyone had a chance to read them? >> Yes. >> Any changes, updates? >> No. Okay. Motion to approve the minutes from November Wednesday, November 12th,
conservation commission meeting. >> Second. >> All those. >> Thanks. >> Hello, sir. >> Welcome. >> We just started. Tom, do you want to read number four into the record? >> Sure.
>> Number four, notice of intent. NOI 2025-03, notice of intent at zero Prospect Street, Assessor's Parcel ID 45-1-0, the construction of a single family home with associated site improvements
subject to the Wetlands Protection Act 310 CMR 10.0. 0 and local wetlands bylaws chapter 424 wetlands protection applicant Jerry Mitchell 51 Rogers Avenue West Springfield Mass 089
continued from 910 2025 >> all we have from them is they sent us a letter asking for um a continuence until the January 28th 2026 meeting because they are still working with Eversource Oh, that's the
>> Yeah, the mention, >> right? >> All right. Project Monry make a motion to continue. >> Oh, my apologies. Motion to continue. >> Second. >> All in favor?
>> I I review of restoration plan filed for 383 Porter Road. So, this literally just came in. I would recommend that we all take time to actually read through it and we discuss it at the next meeting because I
can't do anything until spring anyway. >> Yeah, we can just confirm receipt. >> Yeah, we just can confirm receipt that we do have it in hand. >> You can take it home. I printed out the full thing for everybody. >> We can read it if everyone's okay with that. >> All right.
EO-2025-01 stream alteration at 663 or 633 to 759 Summers Road. The update there is that they um met the deadline. They did they hired Birksher design to start that process of the
restoration plan or whatever their plan is to move forward. I don't know yet. Um so we don't need to just waiting >> anything further at this exact moment. Works for me. >> Good. >> EO 2025-05
Cartson Bossbrook at 406 to 436 North Main Street. >> Um the address that they have on their property card for the owners uh is same one that we used the last time we sent them something. They were very responsive. Um it bounced back for
return to sender for their uh certified mail. So they do not know that they have an enforcement order under us. Uh, so I need to find another way to contact them. Um, that's all I have for that address. >> They were responsive the last time, >> right? Yeah, they were the ones. Remember the that had all the cardboard
and whatnot? Yeah, they were super responsive. Um, so I think they might have just changed where they have their office and the property card doesn't reflect it yet. >> I need to find a way to contact them a different way, but they're completely unaware we're asking anything from them at this time.
>> Copy that. EO 2025-06 ratification enforcement order for wetlands violation at 30 vine. >> So this is the uh Jason Jason and Alex and I went out to look at this property.
Um they he cut down all the trees in in the buffer zone >> in the wetland. Not even the buffer zone. She and it's the if they don't restore it, the whole backyard is going to erode away. >> They're like
>> her house. >> Where's Sturdy Violent? >> Yeah. >> So, if you go if you turn on to um >> Oh my god, what is the name of that street? Um >> near the towns. >> West uh >> Westwood. >> You could go on You could go get there
from West from Westwood if you wanted to. But the other one next to the Indian restaurant north Main Street. >> North Main. off north main turn >> turn the S turns >> the the little S turns in the back to the very lowest house >> if you go so so
>> take a hard left >> hard left your first left down where the pediatrician's office is if you go down um turn off North Main where the Indian restaurant is >> and then take your first left onto Vinand because Vinland is like a it's
like a a box >> right so it becomes Vinand right Yeah, it turns >> in two parts though. Part of it comes right off North Main. I think >> it's weird. Yeah. >> And it stops and then the other part continues up. But
>> yeah, I think so. Yeah, cuz it crosses over. It's it's a funky street. >> It's directly behind the stop and shop the the property with the with the cars basically and behind the pumping station. >> Yes. You can get there from the pumping station. >> That was where we had sort of our best
we have sort of our best view of the back of the property where the trees were cut down and all the regrading was done. >> Yeah, it's it's it's a mess. >> You know who cut the trees down? >> We don't know. >> Company.
>> But there's like two foot plus wide DBH trees that are gone now. >> They're just they were >> that were holding the yard together. >> Yeah. And they're they're down now. Jesus. >> Yep. >> That's old neighborhood. >> Mhm. >> Yes. Very old neighborhood.
>> My old neighborhood. >> I used to live there too. >> Did you? >> Yeah. Off Roderick on Amorda. >> Alex, in terms of like the placement, the house itself is sort of partly in the wetland, partly in the buffer zone. Is that right? >> The whole property is in the buffer z
>> and I mean according to our GIS, the house is not wetland. It's close to it. Very close. Well, basically what had happened was >> Oh, so it's the extension of Violin. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> I I see it. So, it was a paper street
and then it I know that. Oh, I know that property. >> And they cleared their whole backyard. >> Oh, yeah. >> There's pictures. I >> There's There's nothing left. >> Was it yard area or was it >> It was all trees. You can if you when we
walked out there, you can see where they come all down >> I think like where the snow fell >> because there's all these trees back here by the backyard. They're all cut >> and everything's been scraped there. >> They degraded back there. >> All the other
graded brothers. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> We have an enforcement order and we just need to we just need to vote to ratify it and get it sent out. >> Yeah. To prevent any further work when
uh Jason signed it in advance of the meeting too so we could cease any potential future work. >> But it's past the maintain lawn like it's where the actual like topography goes down, grade goes down. Um yeah,
just into the wetland itself. >> So you just we just need to ratify it in order. >> So is that you want a motion to >> a motion to ratify and then we should probably talk about next steps but um first thing will be to ratify
>> make a motion to ratify the enforcement order for wetlands violation at 30 violin. Second. All those in favor? >> I >> Yeah. So, we had tried to go out and she was interested in having a site visit with some of you. Um, I tried to call
her. Her number wasn't working. I don't know if there was something going on one at the time, but we went out anyways and we can access it through town property from the DPW pump house. >> Um, I think it would be good if we could actually get on site in my opinion to um
discuss next steps. I mean, there there's that option. There's the option to actually go on site and take a look for ourselves first or we can just or we can have her same deal. Hire somebody to restore the area, however you want to. >> Can we get her in here? >> Right. The town property packs right up, right? >> Yeah. That's
>> punk. >> Yeah. >> And the lots probably, you know, whatever. >> Yeah. >> Right. Yeah. We we we stayed on town property to look at it, but it goes right up to her backyard, >> right? >> Is that what you want? We want to get her >> get her in here. Yeah. Then the importance order now for to attend the
next meeting >> will be January 8th. >> That's fine. Y >> January 8th. >> That works. It's not like she can do anything now anyway. Yeah. >> So it'll have to wait till spring. >> All right. Next item. Wetlands violation
at 34 PS road. >> This was a cease and assist order we did, right? >> Yeah. Um, if you look at the pictures, they literally clear cut the entire
>> like Yeah, clear. It's crazy. >> They did try to call me while uh I was stranded. Okay. >> Not here. And um and I called him back today. Uh he is interested in setting up the site visit we requested in the cease and desist. Fine. He gave me
um a window. Let me just find where I put it. Um Monday morning. Is anybody available Monday morning? >> What time on Monday? >> He just said he just said in the morning. It can be whatever is convenient for you. >> I can do before 11 and after 9 between 9 and 11.
>> That sounds good. Okay. So, >> we're going to do like 9:30 or anybody else have any thoughts on availability? Um, >> yeah, I could do before 11, like a 10 or 10 o'clock meeting or earlier. >> Okay. You want to go Monday the 15th?
>> Yeah, Monday the 15th. >> Yeah, next week. >> What time >> you want to do? 9:30. 10. >> Um, I could do that. >> 9:30. >> Got to be work at 7:30. >> Early. >> We'll take pictures for you. Thanks.
>> Supposed to work for at 7 in the morning. Let's do 9:30. >> Okay. >> 9:30. >> 9 course. >> Earlier the better because Mondays are bad days for me. >> Yeah. >> Very busy. >> All right. Cool.
>> All right. Now, is that coming up from uh Baker Road left on Peas or is that the other on 34? >> I have no idea. I'd have to look at the map. >> Alex, >> same answer. Have to look at the map. >> Do you know tongue? >> Say that again. Which end of Peas is it
at? >> It's off Deer Run Terrace. I can tell you that because that's how I saw the property. >> Oh, wait. >> I don't know. >> It looks like it's down toward uh Shaker Road. >> It's right near Summers. Is that in? >> Is that okay? Is that Can you send a
calendar invite, Alex? >> Oh, yeah. >> Awesome. Thank you. Sweet. >> I find that if you send the invites, it works way better for me because it's on my work calendar. We're good on that. >> Y >> Wellland's violation at 172 Fernwood
Drive. >> What is this one? >> We've gotten um some multiple calls about this property over time that I've been here and um every time somebody has gone out,
whether it be me or somebody else um and we haven't actually been able to find anything. uh come to find out it's because we've been going uh when the wetland is act just full of standing water. So I was able to actually get to a different area that I've never been able to access before because the ground has been frozen. Got it.
>> Um so I have a I I attached a couple pictures. They've been parking um a tractor and like this gator type off-road vehicle which they've moved those two things. Um but they've also been building off-road trails and there's a hunting stand back there. Um,
and that's both our conservation land and in the wetland. >> Um, so I I have the owner of the property called and uh she's open to us having a site visit. So we should probably um go out
there and then that way we can actually access it from her property. You don't have to do what I did and walk >> down the little trail. >> That's fine. >> All right. All right. So, you're going to reach out to her and arrange a site visit, >> right? Does do we want to do it the same if she's available on Monday or do we
want to do a different day or >> that would be okay for me? >> Same day. >> Yeah, that's fine. >> If it was like at the same time >> actually on Monday >> like after we >> If it was like 10:30, I could do that. >> I think we got we got 9:30 for 34 p.m.
>> 10:30 for for Fernwood. >> It won't take an hour. I don't think Yeah, I don't think 34ps would take an hour. Probably be there around 10 >> 10. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, that's fine. >> So, I'll reach out. I'll email and everybody them know because I have to confirm with her to make sure that's okay.
>> That makes sense. >> Um, we might have some back and forth. Um, >> all right. Last item, approval of the 202 meeting schedule. >> Do we have to vote on the meeting schedule or just >> Yeah. Approved?
>> Yeah. Um, and it's the same as last year, second and fourth Wednesday. Um, all the way through. >> No different. >> Okay. >> Make a motion we approve the 2026 meeting schedule for the conservation commission.
>> All in favor? >> Planning and community development department staff report. >> That's you, right? >> Yep. Update. >> Right. Sweet. I will entertain the motion to journ. No second to make a motion.
>> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second in favor.