all right welcome to the forward conservation commission meeting being held at uh one government center in the public hearing room it's Monday April 7th uh 5:30 uh pursuant to the open meeting laws any person may make an audio or
video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any medium attentions are therefore advised that such recordings or transmissions are being made whether perceived or unpersceived by those present and deemed acknowledged and permissible we'll start with roll call
to my left this one here Lewis Ferrer John Brandt Jim Cusk and we have Patty Agi our recording secretary and Dan Aguar will be joining us shortly um let's see first is review and
discussion of uh updates on Bell Rock Road uh we don't have any new updates on that i actually do oh you do oh good so I met with um trustees or reservations with Michael Boss here um walk the property there is some interest on their
part to um make it a um think of a word right now but a um basically to reestablish the existing forested area so there is an interest there um I think they'll be looking for
partners if that's the case it's still in they've requested some documents we're going to send them the documents um so once again they'll be I believe they'll be looking partners i'm not sure what that entails but so they want to restore the site if they do assume
control they want to restore the site more recently it's been discovered by ATVs and dirt bikers and they ripped up the hillside as we know the erosion control and everything to stabilize the bank didn't take because of the drought last August
so it's kind of a mess up there yeah yeah so the trustees are interested in making it a restoration site uh but again I think whether or not that'll happen i've got a bunch of documents I have to send to them good well at least it's
progress right oh I'm sure listen one of one one of we we discussed one of the what we thought was the proposed use was we should open up a motocross facility right a regulated one that people pay to go to and and park and and use make make it
real right but the city can't do it because the liability that you would take upon having motocross lot but that is a great spot for it sorry I'm late so that's the update on Bell Rock Road on as I know more than
you guys know okay anything else to add to that no nope i mean as we're heading into the growing season we expect to see some you know greater growth and we'll keep a monitor on it all right uh review and discussion of
adopting fee structure uh the state's still in their last phase of uh um approving theirs so we'll Could I have a motion to table so moved second second all in favor i I I I John backing up to 01 i'm assuming you just want to table
that as well for continued discussion oh yeah sorry about that yep uh back to Bell Rock can we have a motion table so moved second all in favor i I I okay uh review and discussion of outstanding uh
enforcements though at the last meeting I had informed everybody that we had sent out all the letters um with all of the super delinquent enforcement orders that we had sent out we have gotten um substantial response from a number of them um some that are on tonight's
meeting some that have just just missed the deadline but were submitted and then another one um from the Barton Bronson one that correspondence has been made again with the owners uh but they still have not yet filed so we're we're chipping
away i think we'll Good okay we're not being as ignored as we were before that's good can I have a motion to uh table that motion to table second all in favor i I
I Okay next a notice of intent se-24-843 applicant owners Marcos Fritz uh project location 565 Detroit Street cessors map is E-27-0042 filed by Farland uh Corp on behalf of the applicant the applicant
proposing to install an ingground pool and concrete pad paper patio with associated grading this was tabled from March 3rd so if you recall I mean actually tableabling back probably to December I'm guessing right it was a few months old this is the site that was
determined that the proposed pool area fell within a previously approved wetlands line um and every month the applicant had kept requesting the matter be table they were working with their engineer i did not get any response as of Friday uh so my initial comment
letter that didn't go out first thing this morning was just recommending that you act on what was submitted and my recommendation would be to deny the application did receive an email early this morning that the engineer did speak finally with the owner again and they were working on a revised plan and that
they've requested that the matter be tabled so I don't have an issue with with the matter being tabled again um so that they can work through a more reasonable proposal okay motion to table uh roll call then i I I I
Okay next is a notice of intent SE-24-844 uh owner applicants Omar Ifka project location 1 Middle Street as sessions map is H-21-00001 filed by Sukski and Scotsski uh civil and environmental consultant
Inc on behalf of the applicant the applicant is opposing site redevelopment of an existing mill complex including parking and storm water management system this was tabled from March 3rd good evening uh Carlos Scoldy with Civil Environmental Consultants uh
representing the applicant i'm joined by Michael Torura as well if you can hear me okay if we need microphones here for the record uh if you recall we were in front of the uh commission a number of months ago uh we initially presented the project ultimately this is subject to site plan review uh through the city
engineering and planning department as well uh we received comments back through that process uh from the engineering department uh we subsequently provided some additional information uh which included some detail on the culvert that's the
downstream receiving body of this uh so maybe just to back up for a second for everybody's uh memory just to reframe the context of the site uh we're located along the Tom River this is the former mill facility uh it's been inactive for
a number of years it's in you know state of disrepair it's being degraded the applicant is proposing a historic rehabilitation of the existing mill buildings uh and then adding a small commercial property along the frontage uh of Gold Street there uh so it's
really using the existing structures improving it upgrading the site and really addressing uh a site that's been degraded and in portion for quite some time uh so the proposal is 190 dwelling units 222 uh parking spaces uh and roughly 2900 square ft of commercial
space along the frontage uh so with the uh back and forth that we had with the uh the engineering and planning department we provided some additional information we performed a little bit additional survey to confirm some invert elevations and utilities we provided additional detail and design for a
proposed pump station that's going to pump roughly half of the sewage from the development to be able to get it up to the elevation of the infrastructure in Bay Street uh and generally provided additional information uh and analysis one specific thing as it relates to the wetland protection act and the uh
matters in front of the conservation commission was analysis for the riverfront area uh so the stream that we had previously identified that enters a pond that's at the southwest corner of the site uh was identified to be an intermittent stream it's all culverted
upstream from that uh but we did reconfer with the wetland scientist and we have evaluated it as a perennial stream uh so we looked at the 25- ft riverfront area that was associated with that stream uh we looked at how the project uh complied with the performance
standards for that and within that 25- foot riverfront area we're actually increasing the amount of pvious and vegetated areas along that strip so we're pulling back some of the existing building foundations that were there and replacing that with parking uh which is
going to be in that area again it's more landscaping a reduction of imperous areas uh and we're also going to be able to better control the storm water management runoff from within those areas uh so we did resubmit uh back in February uh and our understanding is
that the vast majority of the comments have been addressed there's nothing substantial outstanding uh other than just some uh you know recordkeeping and some cleanup items that we feel confident that we'll be able to address uh with the engineering and the planning department after the fact if needed uh
so with that we're happy to answer any questions or any additional feedback if you have it you know I would just disagree that it's an intermittent stream i mean I grew up there i've never Okay you made it as a perennial okay that was one of the comments that came up the first time and we did
analyze it as a perennial okay i'm sorry i didn't hear you thank you yep how deep is that hole i don't know i still don't we did check that was something that we did figure out we weren't able to verify with survey equipment because it's hard to get off the edge and it's all fenced off there uh but Mike looked at it was
based off some record plans it's a couple million gallons and when you average L across the square footage it's around 10 ft deep is what it looks like it's not so bad all right so folk folklore is one thing right it's not quite that big i like Chris's story better
so now with the new storm water management the uh it's going to control the water a lot better so the runoff on the Bay Street should be very Yeah there really should be no runoff really to speak of that goes towards Bay Street
the site slopes to the back generally to the river as most things do uh so our storm water management system accepts all the runoff into the site and conveys it to that wetland area that we have uh behind the site uh so everything discharges to that location for the most
part good so the the discharge area behind the mill that conveys water to the Taunt River that's going to remain the same there's going to be no changes to that so that area was identified as a wetland uh so we're not modifying that area one of the things that we included as part of the project was a mitigation
of sorts to clean up that area right there's just debris and garbage that's been back there so it's part of the work they would pick it up clean it up and make sure that it's in good shape okay perfect thank you any other questions any phone no okay so can I have a motion
to have an order of conditions with our standard conditions make a motion seconded roll call i I I Okay uh thank you thank you for your time appreciate it thank you gentlemen
thanks look forward to it great project great project can't wait to see you uh next is notice of a tent SC-24-847 applicant John Henry uh owner Harkkins Whitfield LLC project location 121 Whitfield Street accessor's map is
C-17 lot 0024 filed by Sean Ainsworth engineer on behalf of the applicant the applicant is proposing construction of a single home dwelling uh table from March 3rd um so just a little bit of back history
on this this has been kicking around for a couple of months now we had sent a fairly lengthy comment letter to the consultant previously um that they were working on and we had gone out dug some test pits um to find out you'll see on
the plan that it's the site is basically entirely filled down to 20 ft two different sections are filled there's about a three or a 4ft layer up top that was fairly clean and then the the very historic filled the wetland um down to about 20 ft so originally again in my
letter to you this morning you'll see in that you have um I was recommending denial of the petition based upon that we could not condition this project and meet the standards um of the wetlands protection act related to groundwater supply storm damage prevention
prevention of pollution flood control at 3:30 this afternoon I got an email from the applicant um unrelated I did not send him my updated comments unrelated asking if we could table this cuz he had a sick relative that he had to go take care of and I said well I said he said
do actually it was do I need to be there are there any issues and I said well yes there are some issues so I would recommend that you table it so that we you and I can speak about them before you come back in the next meeting so he sent me an email asking to table the matter and we are going to speak one of
my recommendations was as you all recall this area this is the the weakest link of the entire Whitefield and and Lynwood Street development right these are where the culverts cross under Whitefield Street and what I explained to him was I
recommended that he work with his two abuing land owners so we have three land owners that are upgradient of these culverts the parcel directly across Whitefield is also owned by the same land owner as this parcel so I
recommended that he work with both land owners and the parcel across the street to come up with a comprehensive drainage design that could correct or improve on the drainage issues that we're having upgrading it beyond that I would
recommend that that this petition be denied based upon the material that it's it's evident that the site is probably a historically filled wetland mhm um and then beyond that being able any drop of water an increase of of runoff to these
coverts that exist on the upgradient side of Whitefield Street would be a detriment so proposal in the revised plans that they had sent back did not alleviate that one drop of water um so under that my recommendation was to be
denied um I do think we can give them the ability if they can work with the abuing landowners and I know one of them is here this evening because um for instance on one of the abuing pieces there is a portion of upland that
would not be utilized for the construction of a home on the abuing lot that could be utilized for stormwater control this applicant does not have the right to do that they don't own the land but they could coordinate and both property owners could work
together to see potentially both projects being constructed in some form or fashion including some drainage improvements as well to deal with the entire area um I can't tell you the hours I've spent reviewing um the past permitting of everything that that's
gone on in this area um and every every time I I get done with it I I leave shaking my head for a different reason um so with that I could not see this that this project being moved forward however I do think it's important that if we have an opportunity to fix it
similarly to how we did it on the right northerly side of Whitefield where where the applicant same land owner as well that at that time was more than amanable to making some larger drainage improvements for the better good i think we have the same opportunity now to do
this on that south side of street provide them the opportunity so so with that and and if they would like to build here's your homework go deal with the abuing land owners and see if you can come and it might mean you have to buy one of the pieces next door so that you can provide additional storm water
control or convey water to these culverts it might be to replace the culprits that go into Whitefield that's not what I do for a living anymore but there is a resolution um to this problem if everybody works together so I think it's important that we give them that opportunity now when I was out there
today and there drove around the neighborhood and checked the site there's in evidence of inundation everywhere the wetland there are hydrophilic species on site so and obviously it's been the fill has been brought into the location um so yeah is anyone in the audience
want to I'm sorry do you want to comment uh no I just we spoke with Dan this past week and um we've procured a civil engineer to go and survey our land so you know some of some of what he's talking about is is the water that runs
off this adjacent land has been raised and right now we're our civil engineer is going to survey and see what ramifications have caused any kind of extra water to be on our land and why the water's not remediating from our
land so that's part of this whole process that we're trying that's why we're here not who did you end up obtaining services from you know what i left I crushed from Boston no worries no worries but I'm glad you did because I think that's the right thing to do um and potentially again working with
um the owner of this property i do think there's substantial improvement that can be made there and we're not going through the plans again since we spoke last week i've got four sets of plans that have four sets of invert elevations on those culverts some are going in one
direction some are going in another so it'll I'm curious to see I'm curious to see what what what your surveyor comes out uh comes up with i'm gonna go survey it myself just so that I can I can be sure of it um but because that's really one of the most important things but for
the time being it's my recommendation that they don't approve this project um but I do think this is an opportunity for problems to be solved if everybody can somewhat work together so we'll we'll give them a shot at it the other concern I have is you're s you got a
significant gradient to your west right right so you've got that hill that goes up and there's appears to be that's where they are right there appears to be a lot of ledge underneath where you are as I'm looking at the site they're working on now so that's just shedding water east from you know so that's the
concern I quite a few things that have transpired since you know the last four or five years oh I'll bet yeah including you know the street not being done burns were removed in front of our land we questioned whether or not the pipes were tilted the right way to remediate water instead of dumping water in from the
back of the houses on Frederick Street there's a whole situation that we talk about yeah we're aware of it we have your name and address for the record so that Patty Y William Tera 1019 Montgomery Street thank you yeah I had I went through I think I
printed 20 aerial reviews with with dates um in preparation to get to you recommending the denial um that shows the history of and it's obviously was it what's occurred here and I mean and it was somewhat of a farm slash dump at
some point in time dating back all the way to that but it's it's obvious not only on this side of the street but also north of Whitefield of of what's happened out here so let's hope we can make something good out of a bad situation here yeah i just wanted to mention is originally when I purchased
it uh that was before dust came along and everything my land my lot was higher than all the others below so it my land was here and all the others were much lower than mine and now mine stands the lowest mhm and and like you said you
went out there and dug 20 ft deep and saw questionable fill yeah at least it seems at least that at least 4 feet is recent within the last 15 years which is we have friends that live on Frederick and we were told they text us every time they saw trucks backing up
sure oh no it's like I said we have aerial photos you know twice a year for the last 30 years um so it's easy to track what happened and when so okay so with that I would recommend that we at least table it and give them some time to work on can I move to table so move
second uh roll call i I I I thank you for coming out appreciate it just ask when the next meeting will be just be the first Monday of next month so what is it may may thank you and if you want I mean check in with me we will and I'll let you know if they've come up with something new i I am sure if if they're
not in touch with you then then they're not going to get anywhere so I I I think they need to deal with your property as well as the piece on the other side of them and as well as as the parcel that the Harkkins group owns across because they do also own the land directly north
of Whitefield that gives them the ability to correct these culprits and there's room to do it so taking all that into consideration there's drastic improvement that can be made if they want to take it they they could just say forget it we don't want to build on this and then we we gain nothing right but
let's at least give it an opportunity if they want to do that okay thank you thank you all righty uh next is a notice of intent SE-24-850 owner applicant is Antoine Maderas uh project location 440 Captain
Circle assistance map is Y-6 lot 0030 followed by Mount Hope Engineering Inc on behalf of the applicant the applicant is proposing to install a Fuji clean tank pump station bottomless sand filter within the uh 100 foot buffer zone of uh
bordering vegetative wetland this was tabled from March 3rd i'll give you a report first um so the initial review um we went through made comments i can say that the consultant has addressed um or at least provide us the information that we had
asked for some of the bigger items had to do with the presence of a bordering vegetated wetland across um Captain Circle and that's why their wetland scientist is here this evening because I do know that he went out and looked at that for them and it does show up on on the plan so this is for a septic system
repair this is a house that wasn't built all that long ago uh but the septic system was found to be in failure so we went out did some new test bits the Wellins lines were flagged and title fivewise um it's a fairly heavy lift that the board of health still needs to
approve can't get to the board of health until you say where it sits is okay so what it ultimately comes down to is 25 ft I think 27T 27T to the wetland across Captain Circle so it's not this isn't the wetland that's on our side i think
we're 50 feet away or 53 feet away from the water vegetated wetland on our side of the property so I think they've done um about as good a job as you can um shy of installing a tight tank which is always the last effort so there is room
to put in a system this is um a a type of a system beyond a conventional system so there's a level of treatment that the board of health will look at whether they feel it's appropriate or not but you do have the ability to to condition this project uh
for the installation of this repair septic system at the distances across from the BVW well the present system is failing it's only prudent to replace it exactly particularly the proximity to the BBW and so it's really it's really a title five board of health issue for the for the nuts and bolts of it but because it
does fall within 100 ft of a wetland they did need to file with you so that's all I have to offer at this point i'm I'm fine with it conditional upon board of health approved sounds good uh any questions from the board nope okay just ask the audience is there
anyone from the audience okay uh so can I have a motion to issue a order of conditions uh upon approval from the board of health so moved seconded roll call i I I I All right thanks thank you thank you very much have a good night
thanks uh let's see next is abbreviated notice of resource area delineation uh SE-24851 owner applicant one Shaw Street LLC project location one Shaw Street map is H20 lot
00001 followed by Devon How and Bill's Associate Inc on behalf of the applicant the application is seek and confirm the boundaries of water and vegetated wetlands i don't care so this is um was in Anrad for a parcel of land that runs
along the Tatan River where the Saltine Warrior salt pile is actually right behind the Middle Street project that just got approved right on the water side of that um so a fairly degraded site been a bunch of activity over a number of years it's also the home of um
one of the tugboat uh companies that runs out of there as well so at the time not being super knowledgeable about coastal resource areas it was my recommendation that we reach out to a third party consultant to have this looked at we did
receive uh proposals from three very qualified consultants which you all have a copy of um I did speak with the owner the applicant sent them the same three proposals they were they recommended or requested that we utilize Brandon Faniff
who you're somewhat familiar with ecosystem solutions i don't have um an issue with using any of the three um there was one that was very high price-wise i did see that um but the other two were fairly close uh and I'm
comfortable using either of the other two so it's really whatever if you want to use the cheapest i believe it was Azenus was the cheapest consultant to use um I think it was only a few bucks yeah maybe a couple hundred whether it was 1,800 to,500 but I'm fine with
either consultant so what's the board's decision well I mean we're familiar with Mr fan um and his work his commission so yeah I would agree no problem with using him y Okay okay that's all you need to do then just
make a vote on it and we'll Okay uh right it'll it'll be it's still being tabled but for their review so can I have a a motion to uh accept the bid from uh the ecosystem yep
so moved second roll call i I I make a motion motion to table so moved second roll call hi hi hi Jim hi
all [Applause] righty next is a uh notice of intent SE-24-85 owner applicant Weaver Cove Industrial Park LLC project location New Street accessor's map is T-2 lot
0001 uh filed by Chris Bartoi and Goldard Consulting LLC on behalf of the applicant the applicant is uh uh proposing after the fact restoration of an area cleared of vegetation so similar to the the previous hearing
um I advised that the hearing should not be opened as D had sent a notice of deficiency with regards to the submission i do know that the consultant is working directly with D to resolve those deficiencies so until that point I would recommend that the hearing not be formally opened table to the next
meeting okay have a motion table motion table second roll call i I I all righty item number 10 i would um request that you move it to the end of the meeting i had gotten a text from Mr tolman from
Northeast Consultants that he should be here by 6 but apparently he's not going to make it to 6:00 so we can continue on and pick him up at the end but he should have a table motion moves number 10 to the back i'll make a motion second roll
call i I I next uh request determination of accessibility uh-199 uh applicant uh Paul Furland City of Fall River owners are Claremont Winds Phase 2 LLC
uh Claremont Winds LLC Troy Hill Condos Browning Ferris Rigger Leasing uh property location at east end of Kern Street north along Rigenbach extended Northwest of Main Street sessor's map is Z-30033
0070 0099 and X01 0001 proposed activity involving replacing existing 12-in uh diameter sewer main with a 18in sewer main
good job uh good evening for the record Claire Hogabone wetland scientist with LEC Environmental Consultants uh Dan Scott project manager with quoted and current um so as you summarized uh we are here on
behalf of the city of Fall River for a request for determination of applicability uh for phase 1B of the North End interceptor sewer improvements project um the commission members may recall we were before the commission maybe this time last year for a similar
request for phase 1A uh but since then it was determined to be uh more of an emergency project but uh we're coming before you for this uh second phase of this project which as you can see
um includes portions of I believe this is current road uh intersecting with Rianbach and this is where the uh project will begin and goes up through Rianbach and turns uh northwest into the
landfill property and right about here is where it intersects with that phase 1B footprint or the phase 1 A I'm sorry um and phase 1 A occurs throughout this uh section here and then phase 1B um
picks back up on the north side of Route 24 and terminates at the town line of uh Fall River and Freetown um similarly to the uh other phase that we were before the commission for uh it's going to be a replacement of
a 12-in uh sewer interceptor with an 18inch diameter sewer interceptor um portions of the project uh are located within wetland resource areas uh we have a bordering vegetated wetland in the
northern footprint of uh this project where it is uh associated with mother's brook a perennial stream some of the work is occurring within the bordering vegetated wetland does not go into mother's brook at all um but it is within the 25 ft
riverfront area as well um those will be temporary impacts to resource areas uh there's also an isolated wetland uh non-jurisdictional that was identified just north of North Main Street um and there's also a bordering vegetated
wetland off of Rig and Bbachier uh that will also be temporary impacts uh for the excavation and replacement uh what's commonly referred to in the city as the North Watupa diversion ditch uh occurs along the western edge of
Rianbach Road and takes a turn into the landfill property so portions of the work uh will occur within that ditch as well but based on our review of previous filings and determinations by the commission uh I believe between 2007 and
2012 it's been consistently uh determined to be a non-jurisdictional storm water feature um so just very quickly um working sort of north to south here uh these are the 300 series plan sheets
so we have our isolated wetland within the work footprint here um this is where we have Mother's Brook flowing in a northwest direction and uh portions of the easement and work footprint are within that bordering vegetated wetland uh we have a temporary
access coming off of North Main Street there and this plan sheet is uh mostly the North Watuba diversion ditch and then we have a stretch of wetland uh west of Rianbach Road where we have some of those impacts as well um
additionally we have some buffer zone impacts but again all of which will be temporary uh following the completion of the project all of the vegetated areas in the wetlands in the buffer zones will be um regraded to pre-existing
conditions and will be uh spread with a seed mix uh New England wetland seed mix in wetland areas um we are not within the flood plane there's no natural heritage area habitat or vernal pools within the project
footprint um and this project requires uh water quality certification with mass D so if they do require any monitoring or reporting we'll be sure to provide that to the commission for your files as well um so with that I'll pass things
off to Dan to talk a bit more about the project components i can switch with you if that's helpful so overall the purpose of this project is to rehabilitate the sewer with by putting in a new sewer um the reason why we're putting in a new one is there's a
need for additional cap capacity in the system uh this portion of Fall River uh is right for development uh the city anticipates anywhere between half a million to a million gallons per day potentially from that area it was fully
built out uh so given that there's a failing sewer or you know portions of it uh that do need to be renewed it's not an imminent failure um it's a multi-beneficial project in that sense for getting more capacity and there's a
definite need um there's a portion of it through here that's PVC but it's only 12 in so we have to replace that uh the remainder going down here is ACA cement which is material that's
through here that we're currently replacing and then it goes to reinforced concrete pipe through this stretch here there's about 9,000 linear feet total of pipe in the project in this phase of the project
about 2500 is outside of the city's rightway uh with a bulk of it going through uh the landfill area here the contractor who would be awarded this project will likely uh follow this road
and gain access to this area to the souththeast through uh there's like a path here that's pretty well maintained and then the remainder is runs right along the access roadway landfill so we're coordinating very
closely with the landfill to accommodate that access uh we have details for dewatering uh the construction entrance silt sacks among others we'll have special dewatering requirements for the the contractor that
it's awarded just a little more detail here um this is be behind the Troy State Apartments along North Main Street uh so this is the first work going back towards 24 and a landfill uh so there's three pipe runs
here uh this is where the limits are of our phase right now is that's right within a wetland and then there's a bridge here and that's where it picks back up in the landfill uh we run it
meanders right along adjacent to the brook the north ditch and then follows that that access area I was talking about a second ago all the way out to rigenbach road we
have erosion control the details as well that's the project overall if you can explain to the commission how the final grade doesn't doesn't change at the end of it where we've got because we've had some sewer installations that we end up with
mountains through wetlands at at another point in time i know that's not the case here but I think the commission would like to hear that the temp when we say temporary mean temporary for vegetation and and grid change so that we're we're not impeding or redirecting storm water
once this once this gets installed yep when the contractor's out there they'll uh pull out the existing material um we've done an emergency repair here before and uh the materials were suitable to be reused so they'll be
put back in place compacted uh to a compaction that's going to make sure there's not excessive settlement existing pipes all get removed i mean we're laying basically at the same elevations as the existing pipe generally yeah exactly that's the plan we're not leaving the asbestous pipe in
the ground it'll be abated properly in accordance with all local and US regulations i don't have anything else i mean it's Does the board have any question it's a minor temporary activity no I don't no question did you say that this was the first phase this
is the second phase second phase okay it's the second phase of the first phase you may remember we dealt with the the small section where where we had an emergency certification for for getting them through the the part that collapsed and had some difficulty uh this is at both sides of that okay um
you said D if it was D may require monitoring if at all uh if they do through the water quality certification um I think we're currently under review uh and we should expect that within the next month or so so if they do require
any monitoring reporting uh we'll be sure to provide that to you that's would that include uh Mother's Brook Mother's Brook with monitoring of it or water quality monitoring uh I don't know if they would necessarily require any
sort of water quality but it would certainly include you know uh evaluation of any erosion or sedimentation and ensuring that that doesn't get into Mother's Brook and the contractor will have to follow a SWIP during construction so they would be
doing that as well okay thank you anyone from the audience all right so can I have a motion to issue a negative determination so moved seconded roll call i I I I
thank you thank you very much thank you guys have a good night see you next is a request for determination accessibility- 200 uh owner applicant is Norman uh Tedd Jr property location 53 Brierwood Lane
census map is U-5- Z0067 the applicant is installing a 10x10 shed between the 50 and 100 foot buffer to the uh vegetated wetlands the shed will be constructed on Sono tubes an applicant is also proposed to install
a fence from the corner of the shed along the property line to the limit of work as well as the north side of the house to the property line i'll give you guys just a quick little update this is part of the Highland Farms phase 2 subdivision and so that
would subdivision no that's not one that's Highland Farms highland Woods is Steam's first subdivision highland Farms was I designed it that's part of Highland Farms phase 2 it's the part that Mr
steam bought but Highland Woods is the one that's off the end of Courtney Street the older subdivision he told us it was Highland Woods that's okay uh um so so everybody gets treated the same out here when Mr tatwell came and asked about installing a shed I had
explained to him that should not be an issue it fell within the previously approved limit of work um that I felt a request for determination was probably the suitable filing and that a notice of intent uh would not be required so you'll see on the plan set before you we have a small shed off to the uh north
sorry souththeast corner of the existing house falling well within the limits um of the previous work and then there are also two proposed sections of fencing one to the north side from the front corner to the property line meeting up with the fence to the abunding property
as well as a length along the southernly property line as well with that um I would recommend negative determination but we'll let Mr bisette earn his money and give give a proposal tonight to have we we appreciate you coming a lot of
people don't and it creates headaches for all of us we were very appreciative we appreciate appreciative when people come forward before they start a project and um thank you for doing that poor lawn mower was sat outside
all kidding i'm kidding mine did i'm wearing yeah I don't have much to add it's it's a shed it's going to be on sauna tubes um and it's within the limit of work
okay any questions for the board motion to issue a negative termination motion second roll call i I I I All right thank you guys thank you let's see next request for certificate
of compliance sc-24-661 owner applicant Blunt Fine Seafoods uh project location 630 Current Roads map is Z-3-0065 uh 066 filed on behalf of level design group on behalf of the applicant the
applicant has requested certificate of compliance i don't think there's anybody here for this but if you wanted to Mr chairman items three four and five are similar mhm i don't think you need to read them all in in at the time uh currently but I
I did review the application or the request for the certificate compliance submitted by the representative and um the asbuilt plan that was submitted really only dealt with some of the design items from 2483 which is item four um I asked him to submit a
composite asbuilt plan of everything that's out there and highlight in color which sections of construction aligned with what order because we've got a number of orders out here that it gets a little bit confusing um so he's in the process of doing that so with
that I would recommend that the matters be tabled however with item number five SC 2449 he did request a certificate of compliance for that item which um the commission had actually issued um a certificate a number of years ago so
item number five does not need to be on the agenda at all items three and four will be moving forward waiting for the revised plan and they're both going to be tabled so it's a simple matter both items at once all right so I'll read and we'll take them both uh okay uh item
four is a request certificate of compliance SE-24-803 uh blunt uh fine seafood 630 current road map is Z-300650066 along with the uh previous red uh uh request can I have motion to
table so moved second call hi hi hi hi all right uh let's see next is a notice of intent SC-24 no file number yet no file number yet uh
owner applicant is Hype Palm uh project location 101 Hayfield Lane uh assessors map U1-39 filed by Jeff Tolman of Northeast Engineering Consultant on behalf of the applicant the applicant is proposing to
rec uh recuplicate 670 square ft of altered border bordering vegetated wetland and restore the additional 940 ft disturbing bordering vegetated wetlands so again we have no file number for this but I did um so we couldn't open it
anyway but attorney Greg Brilliant who is the representative um had actually asked to table the matter um prior to us not receiving the file number this this is one of the items that was in response to an enforcement order so this is one of the items that we're we're slowly
starting to tick away with okay um so once we do get a file number um we can deal with it which I anticipate to be um at the next meeting all right can I have a motion to table second second
i uh roll right i All right gentlemen are here for I think it was the number 10 that you t Oh I I think high development no we were waiting for Mr tolman to show up at the end for that one which he hasn't shown up yet so
you've got some minutes to take care of I guess or other items and then if Mr tolman doesn't go i would recommend that the matter be tabled but okay so that his presentation can be given but we'll deal with that one in a minute but you can still open that
hearing and then Yeah we'll just table uh can I have a motion to approve the minutes from February 3rd uh meeting march march it says February but yeah should be March march yeah March march it is March 3rd i reached uh
approve uh make a motion to approve second roll call i I I I I no citizen oh I just heard a door so fingers crossed oh
it's a party look who showed up we've already done We've wait we've been waiting for 20 minutes for you Mr tolman we apologize working yes or no no I mean you're coming let's see
all right right while you set up you can read it i'll read it in uh next is a notice of intent SE-24-852 owner High Development LLC the project location WS South Beacon Street's map is H6 lot 0013 filed by
Jeffrey Tolman and Northeast Engineering Consultant on behalf of the applicant the applicant is proposing uh to construct 21 unit townhouse consisting of seven buildings associated access to parking area utilities on lot 13 as shown on the city of Fall River
map H--06 located on the west side of South Beacon Street a portion of work is located within the buffer zone bordering vegetative wetlands this was tabled from March 3rd while Jeff's setting up I'll just give you my little rundown um so we
we do finally have a file number so we can't we can't open this meeting that's fine um this site has an existing order of conditions if you remember for a self- storage um building that occupied a great amount of this of this lot with
the amount of asphalt that it was um proposing so wetlands delineation was approved under that previous application um so this project falls within um the buffer zone to that bordering vegetation but does propose a reduction in the
impervious surface that was covered under the previous order of conditions now that Jess had his plan up i'll let him take over from there there we go i thought you had a pretty full agenda i
thought we did listen I haven't had Don't mess around we're official yeah we had a lot of tables you missed Mr capone i did that might have been by design waiting to see him go out okay good evening
um from Northeast Consultants Jeffman oh yes yes yes yes we didn't open it never found them there we go thank you we actually readvertised I mean uh sent the notice in the paper
again and we notified about this just to be sure all right uh yeah just to quickly go over the project um as Dan was mentioning this is uh this site um well first of all I'm here on behalf of High Development LLC the owner and applicant
of the property uh this site was previously uh permitted for a self- storage facility [Applause] so this was the this was the approved plan for that
facility as you can see the the vast majority of what I call a usable area on the lot uh because there's about 250 to 300 ft u south of South Beacon I'm sorry west of South Beacon Street that's relatively flat runs at about 1% grade
uh pitching from South Beacon down towards uh the wetland here in the back then you get to this point here and it drops about 25 ft over the span of about 100 down to a bordering vegetative wetland and perennial stream uh located
within that wetland so as you can see the limited work was here on the previous plan i want to say like 96% of the usable area on that property was going to be impervious as part of this development so that was
approved initiated with order conditions back in 2022 was never built obviously um we went back to the drawing board it sat you know sat there for a while and then we um in 2024 in October of 2024
uh the petitioner went before the zoning board of appeals to uh get a project with a townhouse style project with seven buildings 21 units um so seven triplex buildings on the property uh
with that particular design that was brought before bought excuse me brought before the zoning board of appeals is what you see here uh tonight we have a main parking area uh that provides access and parking for the uh the six buildings on the north side of the the
property and then we kind of have a standalone parking area and building uh located in a little notch on the south side of the uh of the property the the property is serviced by uh municipal sewer and water um there's a shallow uh
sewer manhole further up to the north that a low pressure force man will be run up South Beacon Street to tie into that all these particular units that you see on the plan will be serviced by an environment one pump or approved equal uh they'll be put pumped into two
separate force mains then out to that main line in South Beacon Street and then up into the manhole and then the water there's existing water line that comes down south Beacon Street that we'd be tapping into and all the units would be serviced by that uh in terms of drainage the drainage design on this
particular project is very similar to what we had on the self storage in the sense that we're taking all the rooftop runoff from the buildings collected that in a separate system and recharging that into a uh a cult recharge system which
we have located on the uh the northwest corner of the property um for the parking lot runoff what we plan on doing with that is we do have a couple of catch basins that'll be located on the west end of the of the parking area that
storm water would be collected in those catch basins uh piped through a storm septter unit and then discharged into a sediment removal basin which just which is just an extra added level of
uh protection to remove sediment from any runoff that gets through the storm septer um that water would sit in there until it reaches a certain elevation and we we're proposing a uh a level spreader on the on the west side of that it would spill over that onto a rip rat pad and
work its way down into the wetland um but the the bulk of the the the the mitigation for the peak rate of runoff would be dealt with the uh the cult infiltration system um it's been designed to to reduce the peak rate for
for all of the design storms the two 10 25 and 100year storms um the limit of work that you see on this plan is uh basically the same as what was approved previously although we did um notch out a little area here to tie in uh where
our sediment removal basin's going to be able to tie into the grades but other than that uh it is you know the same limit of work uh that we did have approved previously with this particular design there's roughly an additional 20,000 square feet of green space uh
that's provided as opposed to the uh the previous plan for the self- storage facility that was approved um we obviously are going to put a a siltation barrier along the the western um down gradient limit of work um and obviously
that'll remain in place until all the all the construction is complete and the site is stabilized so uh with that I'd be happy to answer any questions that the commission might have commission members I can just add that um not having a file number afford the ability to get through site plan review
um so we we did receive comments from the Department of Community Utilities none um were related to storm water they they feel that the storm water proposed is acceptable there were a few utility issues with water and sewer um that will work out through site plan review but
anything that that you would need to be advised of with regards to storm water has been reviewed by that office in mine as well uh and that is acceptable under the Massachusetts storm water management guidelines um again I
think a far improved project and of what was previously approved um but you need to look at it as itself regardless of what was previously approved but clearly storm water is being handled uh appropriately and the distances to the
bordering vegetated wetland um are pretty substantial for any of the proposed activities what's the closest work Jeff maybe 60 ft yeah 60 ft to this uh bump out here um for that parking area but the drainage is is basically
Yeah where's the 100 foot buffer zone of course they didn't highlight i think you can see it better on the other plan but just to get an idea yeah let me uh I don't see it i saw it on one plan but I don't have Yeah it doesn't show up well on this presentation
there you go so yeah that's the Y there you go it's in the design set so 100 foot buffer zone comes through here so we're really half a building and correct 10,000 couple this half of the building the the kind of the turnaround
area um and the sediment removal base got it okay okay nope i have nothing else um other than the board does want to condition the the project no work should begin until site plan review has been satisfactorily completed which we're on the doorstep of that and that
no work to begin until copy of the required NPDES permit has been provided is this over an acre of disturbance would it qualify it's got uh I believe so yes other than that standard conditions would presently it's presently a derelct site so
yeah and I think what what what drove this was was the parcel to the south was developed for town houses as well so it kind of made more sense to keep everything town houses so I applaud the applicant for getting rid of the the storage units one thing I would like to
ask is I know that we have gentlemen here that are here for this petition if they wanted to come around and look at the the plan and ask any questions that they have to their back yeah are you going to be doing some uh landscaping trees or anything on that um through site plan review there will be a
landscaping plan yes all right that answers that i I guess we will this is Rudy Serrano he's the registered deed owner that got the letter from their butter okay um Terry Gexler um what is
the buffer so we we back up to the Cooks Brook the pennial brook okay so we live on base oh yeah down the bottom okay so there's a grade I think you alluded to it 25 to 100 ft is that going to be
touched at all or what is the buffer zone it It's a natural barrier and there's a ton of wildlife there's deer raccoon turkey blue heron you know there's a lot of concern yeah no we we um the only thing
we're going to tap into a little bit of that slope at the very top just to get our drainage system to work because you know which Jamie is Jamie still owning this or did he No no no okay so he was the storage unit i believe he bought the
the land between Chase and Sprag sold it off to Kenny um and then the theos who built the eight houses but he leed the six acres of rough about kind of pie shapes from our backyard the
brook to that piece there's a 20 foot 25 ft drop over the span of about 100 ft so it's a pretty significant slope and then it goes down into the wetland and you have the the cooks brook you call it coming through there so and you're on the other side right of of the the
wetland and the brook so yeah I mean that brook and wetland's going to intercept any storm water from this site in and carry it which is fine that's your job mhm correct which is fine i understand there has to be but being a natural barrier I didn't know if there's
going to be like hiking trails ATVs you know allowed in that area because it would at that point it would disturb but yeah other than I think you have an existing tree line on one of your sheets Jeff that you can show them what's being preserved generally yeah
just well so just um it shows up again better on the okay so here so you see the existing slope of the contours right here that's that's our limit the top of that slope is kind of where we're going to we do have a little
bit of grading in this one particular area because of the storm water basin here the sediment remman is so you have like I'm sorry I don't have my glasses uh south beacon sheet is where self is here so Ferman is like
yeah that's that piece and then again this is the only thing we're developing is the flat area up at the top of the hill once you get to that the top of that slope right down I mean a little bit little bit of grading into that just so we can get our water to drain on that
slope but that's it okay no no no structures or anything like that yeah and this isn't a question for you people it's probably the zoning board but I know you touched on the parking north and south of of the
project but Globe Mills which is Bay Street which again kind of across the street from us where they built Cus Middle School and I think the other project was they were talking about but
traffic wise is that going to be an issue or how well traffic will only be able to utilize South Beacon Street so this South Beacon Street is a dead end technically correct but it isn't right now because people Well you can drive
through and get through the Duro the old Duro facility to get to Globe Street but So are you planning on blocking off well we we can't because there's another development south of us that has to have access neither of those properties has legal rights to continue
through the Duro property to glo uh to Glo they do now though they they do now because it's all you can you can drive from South Beacon Street which is a public way onto Duro's property and drive through Duro's property which is considered trespassing
so you can't stop two-legged animals from doing what they want to do right however this applicant has legal access through South Beacon Street they are not allowed to continue so that's what I'm saying is that dead end which is Beacon Street
South Beacon Street onto Duro property is that going to be discouraged how does that be up it would be up for the owner of Duro Duro to stop people from going through got it yeah they could block that right at the end of the rideway because the South Beacon
rightway ends at their property line and they could put some type of barrier up and nobody would be able to pass through now they there was zoning board of approval for that Duro property that connected South Beacon Street to Globe right but until that gets built
that connection is not formal or public even once it gets built it's not necessarily public they could gate it if the duro property owner wanted to gate it at the end of South Beacon so that people couldn't cut through okay so they'd have to exit the spray go down the bay or go up to Broadway
so they won't go at this point and again it's hypothetical because it's down the road but your property you again Duro has the ability to chain or commence or whatever but no
heavy traffic on Chase Street cuz right now Center Street stops there was a paper street yep and part of the zoning board of appeals process was the paper street would disappear
because it allowed for more properties and more buildings so right so the paper street of center street was not allowed to be discontinued so that always exists center Street still exists on paper and if someone wants to build Center Street
they could but I don't see a reason for it but the abuing land owners have the rights to utilize Center Street and that was part of the argument during zoning board of appeals is that the Duro property could not impede others abilities to use Center Street remember
that they wanted to park cars in there and I explained to them you can't put your parking in center street because the abutters on the other side of center street have rights to the entire width of center street and you cannot impede them by your parked cars so they had to revise their plans to get those parked
cars out of center street okay so other people do have the rights to utilize center street this landowner does not own the rights to use center street because they there's actually a 10-ft strip between this land owner and center street interesting um what is the buffer
zone between the brook cook overflow or whatever column it doesn't have a name we got to give it a name because it comes before this commission all the time and it doesn't have a name what's the distance between the the stream and your limit of clearing
it's got to be over 100 foot buffer probably well the buffer took away streams way off maybe another 20 or so yeah you know the stream the stream does get Well yeah it's got to be over 100 ft so
it's not six feet or 10 oh no no no no no oh it's quite a distance cuz then it the piece of property then pitches down to the stream is here off the property right and there's a bordering wetland that sticks up off of the stream in this particular location which drags that
up from being over here pushes it up that way but the stream itself I mean that's we're not going to be working within 100 market yeah well that's just grading no structure again that's so
that the water that gets in this basin will be able to drain down the hill this the bottom of the basin will lower than the top of the hill right here so we have to keep out that top of the hill to get gentlemen thank you no worries thank you for coming out thank you welcome so can
I have a motion to issue an order of conditions uh with the uh following site plan review and a required copy of MPDES permit so moved seconded bo i I
I thank you very much can I have a motion thanks for your patience oh you're welcome have a motion to adjourn so moved seconded roll i I We do have a new member coming on