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[Music] all right good evening and welcome to the March 26th meeting of the Fmouth
Conservation Commission this meeting is being held virtually via Zoom video conference and is also being broadcast on FCTV on cable channel 9 as this meeting is being recorded by Zoom and broadcast by
FCTV please be cognizant of what you say how you say it and what can be seen and heard in your background we are missing one commissioner tonight however we have plenty of people for a quorum so we're moving forward um as a reminder for
commenting I'll call on each of you in turn and also that all votes done by roll call even if you've made the motion or the second to our public attendees at any time during this meeting you may enter any comments or questions via the
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hearing as a participant when you are selected you must have your video enabled be succinct and respectful of others public comments will be limited to three minutes each regarding RDAs
under a request for determination of applicability the applicant is asking the commission to determine if the provisions of the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act and/or the Falmouth Wetlands bylaw apply to their proposed project a negative determination is that
the provisions of the act and of the bylaw do not apply therefore the project may proceed as proposed a positive determination means the provisions of the act and or the bylaw do in fact apply andor may require some
conditions therefore the project would require a noticement application so as an applicant you actually want to hear us say something negative and let's see first up vote minutes March 5th
2025 anyone mr chairman and move approval of the minutes patton Felter second all right we have a motion and a second to accept the minutes as submitted for March 5th questions or comments we're voting betsy
filter i Courtney Courtney he said bird eye but I can work with that matthews I Kevin O'Brien I Ron Driscoll I Steve M I it is unanimous with this quorum we have
accepted the minutes of March 5th next up is to vote minutes of March 12 2025 mr chairman I move approval of the minutes as written pending comments this evening patton second
all right we have a motion and a second to accept the minutes of March 12th as submitted questions or comments we're voting betsy I courtney I matthews I kevin O'Brien i
Ron Biscal I steve I it is unanimous we have accepted the minutes of March 12th thank you Kristen next are requests for continuance for a determination of
applicability first up Patrick Burke 158 Church Street Balmouth Mass for permission to reinstall mitigation plantings in accordance with Mass D-4051 [Music] alyssa where can uh the applicant has
requested a continuence until April 23rd so move second all right we have a motion and a reluctant second to continue this till 423 questions or comments we're voting on the continuence betsy Bodfelter i
Courtney Bird I matthews I Kevin O'Brien I Chris I Steve Ben I it is unanimous we have continued this until April 23rd next up are request for continuence under a notice of intent
first stop Susan Garland 42 Chase Road Felmouth Mass for permission to remove approximately 7,100 square feet of Common Reed Fragmitees Australius i probably said that wrong thought he's going to slap my
hand uh Jen you did pretty well Mr chairman and the applicant is requesting a continuence until April 16th so move and second all right we have a motion and a second to continue this
until April 15th questions or comments voting on the continuence betsy I'm not going to give you a hard time Jamie but I'm I'm going to vote I Gladfelter i Courtney Bird I matthews I Kevin O'Brien
i Driscoll I Steve I it is unanimous we have continued this until April 15th next up is John and Lisa Almquist 43 Neb's way found with Mass for permission to reconstruct a dock
yes Mr chairman the applicant is requesting a continuence until April 30th so move that a second we have a motion and a second to continue this until April 30th questions or comments we're voting on the
continuence betsy Blter I courtney Bird I matthews I Kevin O'Brien I Ron Priscal I Steve Ben I it is unanimous we have continue this until April
30 next up oh this isn't familiar is it Wayne Bart the Sea Shell Lane Community Association Inc Davisville Road map and parcel ID is 40-11-013-000000 Bmouth asks for permission to reconstruct and enlarge an
existing licensed community dock system jen for the like 17th time what are we looking at yes Mr chairman the applicant is requesting a continuance until May 14th there were some issues with the
community um the parcel that the community dock is on the applicants uh representatives have been working pretty diligently to get the issues resolved both with conservation and now planning is involved so it is a little bit
complicated and we are working through it just taking a bit all right so okay so I need a motion to that effect so move to continue it to what's the date may 14
second all right we have a motion and a second to continue this till May 14th questions or comments we're voting on the continuence betsy filter I Matthews I Kevin O'Brien I Driscoll I
Steve I it is unanimous we have continued this until May 14th next up is a request for a continuence under an enforcement order 58 Westwood Road LLC care of Robert Martin 58
Westwood Road Palmouth Mass unpermitted construction of a shed and removal of vegetation within the buffer to a coastal bank and coastal dune jim yes Mr chairman the uh uh the property owner is requesting a continuence until April
30th heard so move and the reason um they're still getting quotes for the restoration okay so second y have a motion and a second to continue
this until April 30th questions or comments we're voting on the continuence betsy Pter I courtney Bird I matthews I Kevin O'Brien i Fron Briscoll I steve
and I it is unanimous we have continued this until April 30th wow there's a lot of continuences yes all right next up are requests for determination of applicability first up Thomas Sedman 48 Beach Street Felmouth
Mass for permission to construct an addition and expand an existing deck i was so staff recommends a negative two under the state and bylaw resource area boundaries are not confirmed birds move in this flood plane is that what this is
primarily yes yeah okay and second thank you we have a motion and a second to accept staff's recommendation questions or comments we're voting to accept staff's recommendation betsy Flatfelter i
Courtney third eye matthews i Kevin O'Brien I Ron Chris Steve Bettton I it is unanimous we have accepted staff's recommendation next up Martha Bennett 15 Kerry Lane found with Mass full
permission to reconfigure existing hardscape alyssa staff recommends a negative three under the state and a negative two under the bylaw resource area boundaries are not confirmed birds move driscoll second we have a motion and a second to accept
staff's recommendation questions or comments we're voting betsy Bloodfelter i Courtney third eye matthews i Kevin O'Brien i Ron Bis I steve I it is unanimous we have accepted
staff's recommendation next up has been previously continued brings us to Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation 131 Walkway Highway found with mass for permission to replace an
existing fence alyssa staff recommends a negative three under the state and a negative two under the bylaw resource area boundaries are not confirmed so move second we have a motion and a second to accept staff's recommendation questions or
comments we're voting betsy Bipter I courtney Bird I matthews I kevin O'Brien i Ron Driscoll steve Bton I it is unanimous we have accepted staff's
recommendation next up Amy White 390 Aapascet Road with Mass for permission to remove vegetation growing within an existing stone revetment alissa staff recommends a negative three under the state and a negative two under
the bylaw the reason boundaries are not confirmed so move second right we have a motion in a second to accept staff's recommendation questions or comments we're voting betsy Felter I
courtney I matthews I kevin O'Brien i Ron Piscol I steve Ben I it is unanimous we have accepted staff's recommendation next up Scott McCale 210 Walker Street Bmouth Mass for permission
to construct an addition remove an existing sewage disposal system and install a new title 5 sewage disposal system alyssa staff recommends a negative two under the state and bylaw resource area boundaries are not confirmed and this project solely takes
place in an AE flood zone third so move discal second we have a motion and a second to accept staff's recommendation questions or comments we're voting betsy I courtney Bird I matthews I kevin
O'Brien i Ron Piscll steve and I it is unanimous we have accepted staff's recommendation next up Paul Duffy 20 Salt Pawn Road Palmouth Mass for after the fact permission to reconfigure a dock
structure in Sitter's Pond alyssa staff recommends a negative two under the state and bylaw resource boundaries are not confirmed so move second we have a motion and a second to accept staff's recommendation questions or
comments we're voting betsy Palter I courtney Bird I Matthews I Kevin O'Brien I Ron Driscoll I Steve Ben I It is unanimous we have accepted staff's
recommendation next up Michael O' Conor 127 Lakeshore Drive Mass for permission to reconstruct an existing sunroom alyssa staff recommends a negative three under the state and a negative two under the bylaw resource area boundaries are not
confirmed so move fiscal second we have a motion and a second to accept staff's recommendation questions or comments we're voting betsy Walter I courtney Bird I matthews I kevin O'Brien
i Ron Priscal I steve I it is unanimous we have accepted staff's recommendation next up William Flynn 407 Marav Vista Avenue Felmouth Mass for permission to construct three dormers on an existing
single family dwelling alyssa staff recommends a negative two under the state and bylaw resourc boundaries are not confirmed and this project solely takes place in an AE flood zone so move fiscal second we have a motion and a second to accept staff's recommendation
questions or comments we're voting betsy vod pter I Courtney third eye I Matthews I Kevin O'Brien I Ron Driscoll I Steve Ben I it is unanimous we have accepted
staff's recommendation next up Brian Foley Clancy Construction 369 Walker Street Mass full permission to raise RAZ and rebuild a single family dwelling Alyssa
staff recommends A negative two under the state and bylaw race boundaries are not confirmed and this project solely takes place in an AE blood zone so move second we have a motion and a second to accept staff's
recommendation questions or comments we're voting betsy Gladfelder I courtney Bird I matthews I kevin O'Brien i Ron Priscal I steve and I
it is unanimous we have accepted staff's recommendation thank you to the staff for all their work on those next up our request for a hearing under a notice of intent all hearings of the Fal Conservation Commission are held
simultaneously under the authorities of the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act and the Fal Wetlands bylaw although a single decision of the commission is issued it represents a separate decision under each authority as a reminder public commenting is limited to three
minutes so I encourage you to stay within the purview of this board which are the rules and regulations of the wetlands protection act and the fouth wetlands bylaw and how they pertain to a particular application the chair reserves the right to stop any commenting that is disparaging or
inconsequential to the hearing first up Dennis and Adrien Okcon 21 Fairview Lane with Mass for permission to raise RAZ an existing single family dwelling construct a new single family dwelling
with a covered porch upgrade the existing sewage disposal system to title five requirements and install mitigation plantings jen yes Mr chairman I promoted Tim Tim Santos from MEL Engineering to present his project tim anybody else on this one
yeah do you mind promoting Tom Lee please uh Mr lee is being promoted as a panelist okay and Tom is in yes he is mr santos you're
up sir okay uh good evening for the record Tim Santos from Merill Engineers representing the applicant along with me this evening Tom Lee from TL Studio prepared the landscape design uh with your permission I will share my screen
yes sir assuming everybody can see that yes okay property is located at 21 Far View Lane in East Falmouth currently developing an existing single family home and shed resource areas on
or within 100 feet of the property are land on on land under the ocean land containing shellfish uh salt marsh to the rear of the property um there is a coastal bank man-made coastal bank the stone retaining wall that is not labeled
on the plan but it was brought up during staff report and I will get that onto the plan and the entire property is located in land subject to coastal storm flowage um the applicants before you tonight looking to demolish the existing
home and construct a new home as shown on the proposed plan we're moving it further away from the edge of the salt marsh and the and the water's edge um all roof runoff will be diverted to dry wells we are proposing to install a new
title 5 compliant septic system um as part of the redevelopment of the property um there is an increase of 1,74 square feet of imperous area so we'll be mitigating with
3,223 ft of mitigation plantings as well as some seated trees um Tom has prepared a landscape plan that I will let him talk about in a second uh but I just wanted to say that we did receive the staff report i did go back and forth
with Jen with some comments on it um they're all kind of minor and I'll revise our plan to show the coastal bank setback it does not affect any of the buffer zone calculations but we will get it on there for you um there was a
question in regard to where the cesspool was located it's located to the east of the existing house um in this area here and we will show that on the plan and add a note to be abandoned the owner just let me know that information uh
there was also a note that there was some vessels being stored in the marsh the owner has let the neighbor know that they needed to be removed so those will be removed um I've let the owner know any further cutting or any cutting
that's done needs a permit so there'll be no more cutting of vegetation without a permit and there were two minor notes in regard to um kind of this edge of vegetation note here we'll remove as well as one of the notes in the uh
proposed planting uh mitigation i think it was this note right here plants to be maintained to good health and replaced as needed for three growing seasons uh so we'll remove that from our mitigation plan notes besides that I think there are two minor comments on the landscape
plan so I'll turn that over to Tom so he can run through the landscape plan quick and then we can address any questions you might have thanks Tim tim do you mind bringing up the plan yeah not a problem though thanks
uh this plan basically follows uh the delineation of the mitigation planting areas by Tim and just further breaks it down and provides uh plant counts and species um it's all listed in the ch in the
plant list uh plethora two species of native roses um arrowwoods some uh bayberry and and some cedar trees um I know the comment about was uh that there were too many too many
uh or proportionally too much uh of the two rose species up to about 50% and you'd rather have it uh 15th so I think 243 total plants so
basically you'd rather have 50 uh roses and then Yeah and and we're willing to do that and and increase the number of the other species um other than that I I realized one
another comment was to uh make sure the lawn comes up to the to the edge of the building and not have uh that white uh which which was intended as a gravel strip that's all it was to for for ease of maintenance so you don't mow against the building but we we will take that
out and I think that's it that's basically it right and Tim thank you for correcting me on the road far view i I've called it Fair View many times yeah what can I tell you all right Jen
um yes Mr chairman uh thank you gentlemen for addressing the comments uh Tom I think if you're agreeable to that then we can just condition our revised plan so we don't have to have a continuence on this one uh and I appreciate you uh agreeing to those
revisions of course does that work with you Tim yeah that works with me i can get you a revised plan in the next couple of days as well so they're all little minor comments alyssa you good with that one okay
perfect all set Mr chairman all right Alyssa no comments thank you all right commissioner comments or questions betsy just a comment nice nice clean presentation it'll be nice to have It's
a nice little cottage that's there it'll be a bigger cottage but still modest for the size but it's still still a cottage cool spot that's all all right Courtney um I have no comments other than to
agree with Betsy well done thank you all right I'll give it the trifecta on the presentation short and sweet way like it Kevin no comments other than to repeat your comment ron all set thanks all right Steve
you can't wait to see the construction here it'll be a very interesting project it's a families own that property for a long time i'm sure they've planned this for decades so good luck with all of it
oh good jen is there anything in the public chat function please nothing in the public chat regarding this project Mr chairman then I'll put a motion on the table to close the hearing and take it under advisement we have a motion and competition for the
second i like that all right last call questions or comments we have a motion a second to close the hearing we're voting betsy Valter I Courtney Bird I matthews I kevin O'Brien i Ron Briscoll I steve
Ben I it is unanimous we have closed this hearing thank you gentlemen thank you all right next up thank you can I Tom yes i have the next one jim i know you
do Tim i got you thank you next up 457 Wild Harbor Road Realy Trust 457 Wild Harbor Road Felma Pass for permission to raise RAZE an existing single family dwelling construct a new single family dwelling
with attached garage terraces and pool and upgrade the existing sewage disposal system to title five requirements jen yes Mr chairman we still have Tim Santis with us and Tim I have promoted the
landscape architect help me with the last name is Shan Sean Papage sean Papage from Shan Papage Landscape Architecture good evening sir good evening all right Mr santos you're up again sir uh good evening again for the record Tim
Santos from Maryland Engineers representing the applicant along with me this evening is Sean Papage from Shan Papage Landscape Architecture uh with your permission I will share my screen yes sir [Applause]
all righty the property is located at 457 Wild Harbor Road um currently developed with an existing single family home decking gravel driveway lawnscape sorry landscape landscape
areas and lawn um the resource areas on or within 150 ft of the property are land under the ocean land containing shellfish a coastal beach coastal bank along the rare um and then a portion of the property is located in a land
subject to coastal storm flowage the property has recently been purchased by the applicant and they're looking to tear the house down and move it further back out of the buffer zone so as shown on the plan here um we're
taking the house that's currently located where the our proposed pool is we're moving it outside of jurisdiction and in reality there's only a really small portion of new structure
within your um buffer zone in the outer 50 to 100 foot buffer zone um as far as the house goes all the roof runoff will be contained by drywall we're proposing a new title 5 septic system well away from the resource areas um we did
provide some uh redevelopment calcs it's actually a reduction of 1,800 square ft of impervious surfaces within your buffer zones uh we have prepared a a landscape plan that I can pop up for
Sean or Sean can pop up in a second um we can kind of review the landscaping and the proposed native plantings we're proposing um we are also proposing to rebuild the set of steps down to the bank for safety reasons staff did
provide um a staff report i have reviewed it with them again I believe these are all minor little comments we can revise the plans get them to you and hopefully we can close the hearing tonight uh one of the comments was to narrow this mode path down to 4 feet
which we will adjust um I'll let Sean address the landscape comments um again the property owner has just recently purchased the property so they have not done any cutting on this property but I've made them aware that no cutting within the buffer zone is
allowed without uh this board's permission and there was one comment by staff in regard to the crush stone below the steps um typically when we set these steps on the bank when we're reconstructing them we do put crush stone beneath in order to level out the
steps and allow them to set in place so those are my comments my quick presentation sean do you want me to pull up your plan or do you want to pull it up sure that'd be great Tim i appreciate that you know so this one's got a little bit more
color on it again um as Tim noted we are bringing the house back so if you see a little light outline of the deck to the left of the pool um we are taking the house back about 73
feet uh give or take a few inches um further away from the resource uh the proposed pool area is also actually back of that deck existing deck so we were really trying to push this house as far
back on the property as we could for the most part as well as the use area um folks that had bought the property the Glicks they they're love their plantings they love their outdoor use areas and that was really a pretty strong focus of
what we did and when we were working on this project with them so again most of those are even outside the 100 foot buffer the bulk of the pool area is outside of that um to the to the east of it I'd say um one of the things we did is we left a stone wall kind of curve a
linear stone wall that's existing there today that sits right about the 50-ft buffer kind of goes back and forth off of the 50ft buffer we left that in place as it is and proposed to plant native plantings in front of it a fairly substantial amount of robust planting um
utilizing all the usual suspects you might see the switchgrass Virginia rose low bush blueberry little blue stem aurers as well as some cedars we are proposing some white oaks to be planted um because we are
proposing some removal of white oak that's just inside the 50ft buffer and one that is outside the 50ft buffer um we are proposing to add uh two white oaks and we have several cedars we're also proposing to plant on the property
inside sorry 50 to 100 ft buffer um one of the white oaks is proposed to be inside the 50ft buffer also um also we have a fairly robust planting plan for the rest of the property and the rest of the house site that's beyond your um
your jurisdiction in terms of uh the stairs that are proposed to be replaced um yes as Tim described that those stairs that we are out there right now are just very dangerous the homeowners are really concerned about about them and so it
felt like it made sense to um replacing kind with some granite steps and stone steps um reutilizing some of the boulders are out there today um to help protect with the erosion again we did hear you on that pathway to the
uh to the water so that can be narrowed uh completely to four feet and that's not a problem whatsoever um that's I guess the the general rundown on the landscape plan if um if you have any questions we'd like to talk
about it further thank you thank you Ken uh yes Mr chairman gentlemen did one of you uh address the the the no mo area uh that we had commented on in the staff
report yeah you had you had commented on that Jen and one of the things that we at least I wanted to ask you we um we do like to utilize um seed mix of native Forbes and grasses
in some of these areas because we feel like we get really good quick coverage and we we think it's actually sometimes um just as appropriate to have the grasses uh because we think that it helps control the erosion even more so
than the woody plants so we want to have a discussion at least with you about that and see how you feel about it and perhaps how the board uh the commission feels about it one of the things that we like to see is native shrub uh native uh
grasses and forbes that hold really will hold the soil and the intent is to utilize those in that area and then just mow that 4ft path um to get to the water um that way we have some stable soil conditions which is mostly sand right
now it's a bit barren um out there um but thought we would see if we could at least have a discussion about it okay um Alyssa was that area cleared
based on aerial photos it was vegetated in the past okay so it was cleared without a permit in that 50ft buffer Sean okay so I'm kind of concerned with the note that we say no mow and then we go on to say no mo meadow area but then
we're going to be mowing seasonally to maintain encroachment of woody plants so if you have your base and it's stable why wouldn't you want those woody plants to come in well we could still utilize some of the some of the woody plants so we don't have a problem with utilizing
some of them we just feel like that the as as long as we have u some seed mix or some grass base that we like that for the protection of of any sort of erosion
um so no I understand that but um I know the board will have to decide if they want that area because it was cleared without unfortunately without a permit um if they want to see more woody shrubs in there um you know over over your grass over your meadow area because you
you I mean it basically states you're maintain you're you'll be mowing it seasonally to keep those shrubs out of that area my then that was that was in not intended to to uh to do that that was um it would be more for any of the woody
invasives that we find um as well as the pathway itself pathway itself we wanted to leave a clear pathway so that was probably a mistake in terms of how it was described okay i I mean I don't mind the the the path being mowed but the area outside the path we don't want
mowed okay it might want some more woody plants in there and the only other comment I have Sean is the use of the switchgrass we've seen it become very very aggressive in other projects okay um how do you propose either maintaining the switchgrass or or keeping it from
just overtaking everything else or is there another species you can use in place of the switchgrass at least in our kind of our area if you want it up around the house in the pool area I'm fine with that but we have seen it
become very very aggressive in some of our restoration projects well well we could go to dysia one of the tuped hair grasses utilize that probably wouldn't be quite as aggressive we could also use one of the other grasses you could still we are utilizing
little blue stem we could do that also um okay i mean switchgrass is certainly one of the most predominant native grasses in the country as well but so is um I mean so again is little blue stem but if you're finding that it's
problematic in some of these areas and we could certainly switch up the variety or the the cultivar or excuse me the the I think we would be a little bit more comfortable with that we've had a couple of projects where it's been kind of aggressive and has outco competed you
know little shrubs trying to come in okay so okay you know just throwing that out there okay um that's all I have Mr chairman all right Melissa nothing at this time thank you all right commissioner comments
we're going to start with Courtney uh I have no comments actually to other than the echo Jed's concerns about the switch glass you know other than that it well thought out all right good project Kevin no comments
Mr chairman thank you Ron i agree good project moving a house way back from the resource nice thank you that's all can you tell all your friends that you did that honestly this should we should probably
have them them uh meet the homeowners because that was really a really important piece for them to have um this set back a little ways and and have some some enjoyable outdoor space you know it's nice all right Steve very nice
Steve steve you're muted i'm sorry you could have said they wanted to be conservationist and move house back but very nice project wonderful property the plan I can't see what the house
looks like but the layout looks beautiful oh the house is beautiful yeah I wish we had a picture of that for you beautiful beautiful scale too all right let's see tim you're banning two for two tonight
it's another nice presentation thanks Sean for working with them yeah thank you all right Jen is there anything in the public chat function please nothing in the public chat function do you want us to condition the plan Sean or do you want to send us a revised plan do you
want a continuence to show us a revised plan what would you like us to do is it just condition we're going to send a revised plan so that wouldn't We can do that okay so kind of you know address the switch grass yep and then take the mo label out of the the red sections i
don't know if it was Tim highlight i drew I drew them in there i I just highlight that and then maybe pop a few shrubs in there because unfortunately for your clients that that area was cleared without a permit yeah I don't think they knew about that i don't think they No that's okay
they were shocked so if you could do that we can close this hearing and just submit the revised plan if that works for you gentlemen that makes sense excellent i'll make a motion to close the hearing and take it under advisement second all right we have a motion and a second to close the hearing last call questions
or comments all right we're voting to close the hearing betsy I Courtney I Matthews I Kevin O'Brien I Ron Escal steve
give me a thumbs up i got it thank you it is unanimous we have closed this hearing thank you Tim thank you Sean thank you so much thank you gentlemen good night thank you have a great weekend good to see everybody all right next up Jeffrey 86 Eel River
Road East Mass for permission to install a fiber roll array construct a staircase maintain a vista corridor and install restoration plantings jen I am promoting Mike
Borelli and I just saw Jen oh and Jen believe Jen Crawford Mike Porcelli found Engineering Jen Crawford Crawford Land Management to present their project and they are
coming in all right Mike's playing hard to get there he is all right Mr borelli you're up sir thank you Mr chairman members of the commission for the record Mike Borceli
Felmouth Engineering and I represent the applicant along with Jen Crawford from Crawford Leanne Management we represent the applicant Jeffrey Anger who was a property at 86 Eel River Road and with your permission I'd like to share my
screen yes sir thank you i'm sharing with you the site plan prepared by my office um and it shows the lot the lot has frontage on a water body named Eel Pond the wetland
resources include land under the ocean land containing shellfish there are two small sections of salt marsh there's an eroding escarment here where this shaded uh tan
color is and there's a a very low profile coastal bank here the top of which is um right at the very edge of this uh tan color and um the node disturbance zone A
from the salt marsh is shown here the uh property has typical features of a a residence with a driveway landscape grass areas it has a path to the water
and it had um a stairway that was not permitted that we had uh noted as uh uh remove and unpermitted timber stairs and reconstruct uh after uh the fiber roll array is uh
constructed that stairway has in fact been removed and I've been told by the owner that there was a uh uh unpermitted walkway sections on the path that he also removed um the project in uh primary uh
purpose for the application is to try to mitigate the erosion that's occurring at the at the lowprofile coastal bank uh we teamed up with Crawford Land Management and uh they designed a fiber roll array
that I will share with you in a minute and they also proposed some restoration of the buffer zone which I'm noting on this plan but the details of which are on their plan um we did receive a staff report
and there are some items within the staff report that are uh minor and easily addressable and there's a couple other ones that we probably should meet with staff to get a little bit more guidance
uh so that we can uh revise the plan so we will be asking for a continuence so that we can accomplish that but I will uh would like to finish the presentation and then take questions and hear your comments and then ask for the
continuence um Jen are you going to share your share your screen and show your plan uh Mike if you have them right after yours you might as well just bring it up otherwise I am prepared to share if I need to it's not a problem yeah I have it I have it here perfect i'm going
to turn it over to Jen at this point um I'll try to keep it brief it's a fairly simple proposal from our um end of things right now uh as Mike said the very low profile coastal bank um it you
can see that there is um a root mat that is kind of overhanging and in the area where the path comes down where the stairs uh that they removed um were um you can probably reach underneath that root mat 3 or 4 feet maybe even more in
in parts of it and there's just no sediment underneath it it's just kind of hanging over the edge so to speak um so much of what is hanging over the edge is is just dead um and you can see evidence of um smaller trees that have fallen due to being undermined in that condition
along the shore um so this proposes to uh simply restabilize that um lowprofile coastal bank um using three to four fiber rolls depending on um the the area that they are in um they simply tie back
into um on the um east sorry western side property line um they simply tie back and die back into grade um and they end on the um eastern side uh shy of the property line um in that's really the the fiber
roll installation portion of it we have proposed some nourishment over the top and some planting um it requires very very little um sediment uh but as good practice to keep those fiber rolls covered and to um try and get them vegetated in terms of the naturalized
area which is pretty much everything um from the house to the water uh we we really didn't see any incursions of invasive species the area is very well vegetated albeit um having been pruned in the past and I believe that that will
um that we can talk a little bit more about that um as I get through this uh but in terms of the vegetation content of the area it's it's pretty densely vegetated uh it's all native um it has a ton of um native tree species native
shrub species everything from scrub oak bayberry chokeberry um various oak species viburnum huckleberry uh so from a plant community standpoint it it is very complete in its species diversity and in its um relative density uh one
thing that we have uh proposed with um this filing is to put on record an actual um Vista corridor and to do some work within that Vista corridor to either um either restore some of the
trees that are there uh as single stem trees and those are specifically noted on our plan um or if they are in such a shape as they cannot be restored to replace them with native shrubs um we understand and respect the fact that your um that your regulations um allow
for vistas but do not allow for them to be completely clear of trees so we have tried to um be respectful of that as well as work with the existing um species that are that are already there uh one of the other things that and I
should say everything then outside that vista window we've called on our plans for it to um be allowed to renaturalize on its own um it's all of the species are there uh they just need to be left alone um so that's exactly what our plan
calls for um and then in terms of the uh access path that goes down to the water um it is wider than what um what your regulations allow for so we have
proposed to narrow that um to 4 ft as is allowed um and I think with that I will conclude my my portion of the presentation as you know going over what is proposed currently in our plans
thanks John mr chairman um Yes sir just to circle back on a couple things in the staff report and uh uh just so you're aware um we understand the staff report uh comments and one of them was pretty
simple and straightforward the we didn't actually show the top of the bank um and we didn't show the uh A and B zones from it so we will add those to the plan um there was a comment about some uh a
fence and some artificial turf that are uh in the buffer and we need to verify that and talk about how to address that with your staff um there was a generator installed and I think that's okay
to remain because it's in it's only in the coastal storm flow and there's a comment that that can be allowed after the approved after the fact the Vista Cor um is on this plan there was a request to put it on our plan as well
um and then the the final thing that's probably the most important is um and and some of you may remember because I know I know of at least two of you that were on the commission in 2012 a previous property owner not the current property owner but a previous property
owner had um cut some trees without permission and and we actually submitted a restoration plan and there was an order of conditions issued for that and it appears that he never uh proceeded with the restoration under that order of conditions so what we we're hoping to do
is go through that with your staff and combine that with this application this application shows uh restoration of the buffer but it's not it's not in sync with what the 2012 plan did so we'd like
to sort of dovetail them together and hopefully be able to come back with a plan that merges both um both plans in a way that's acceptable to you um we would hopefully make sure
it's acceptable to your staff because if it is it's a lot easier to convince you that it's acceptable and um deal with that issue at at a continued hearing i think that sums up the presentation we're we'd like to hear from you and
then we're going to request a continuence till April 16th all right Jen yes thank you Mike thank you Jen um I think some of the items that Mike touched on we can you know we'll talk
with them especially about the artificial turf and your buffer zone i think uh we can work with Jen on the Vista corridor i think the most important thing though is this outstanding in uh enforcement matter as
Jen says property is um full of natives it's dense it's healthy unfortunately she was very polite when she said it was being pruned it is being heavily managed and trees don't grow to the heights that they are currently on the site they grow
much larger um so this property has been historically at least since 2012 managed um so this has been a continuous violation uh staff would recommend that be addressed before any additional work
on the property take place including the installation of the core fiber loaves so we are prepared to meet with Mike and Jen and talk about um kind of the history of the project uh property and ways to move forward
because as Jen said there's not a lot there's like hardly any invasives out there Jen correct like nothing it's just those trees are just being managed and um we're just going to have to find a way for them to either be replaced or
managed differently managed in a way that they can actually become a healthy tree again yep understood and Jen or Alyssa if um I haven't seen a copy of the old restoration plan that was approved and that that would be super helpful for me to get a better
understanding of the history of the property and what was desired at that time and I think it's even worse than it was back then so we'll meet with both of you and go over all that that would be great and very helpful thank you Mr chairman um they just received the staff
report the other day so um I think a continuence is warranted okay that's all we have right now all right Alyssa uh Jen I'll send that over tomorrow for you thank you much appreciated chris thanks that's all I
have all right i like the overall plan i think you guys did a great job with the especially with the Vista um I like how it's defined i like the path being included i like the fact that you guys appear to be wanting to correct everything and get it all going forward
so I think that that's all a good thing so hopefully we can all work together and get it better let's just say All right Kevin uh no further comments thank you Mr chair all right Ron I had a question how are you going
to access the water i know there's a path uh but are you going to go right over the the new installation or are the stairs going to be replaced or how are you going to access the water well that's one of the things we're going to address um on the plan the my plan
did say you know if you don't mind I'll share my screen again sure my plan my plan and I'll zoom in on it suggested that the uh stairs would be removed for the
installation of the fiber roller uh array and then they would built o over the over the fiber roll array and then back down to the beach they they've been removed right um so after the fiber roll array were to be built we'd build these stairs back over there'd be a there'd be
a platform at the top and then stairs down over the fiber fiber roll array so okay because there you're right there there is no way to get down to the beach if the fiber roll array is in place
because it's it's difficult to traverse that that something like this um the stairs would be up here and then they'd come back down over that meeting up here and then stairs down
okay thank you hope that answers all right Ron you're good i'm good yeah thanks all right Steve no questions thank you Mr chairman all right Betsy I have one comment i was here in 2012
and this is this was deja vu all over again when I went out to this site this was an egregious violation that I hope Jen and Mike can work with staff to to address um the other question I
had was Mike where you have the path and you say something about um wooden wooden platforms or wooden for wooden walkway yes in your plan isn't
Isn't Isn't that um a brick pathway it looked like there was brick underneath that i don't do you know Jim i I don't um when I saw it it was the roll up um the little
rollup boardwalks that you show on your plan um I didn't I didn't notice any but clearly we have to go back out on site so we can take another look but I I didn't notice any when I was there well there was no there were no wooden walks when I
went up but it was a it was like a brick pathway with with moss growing up you know how you get moss on a pathway that kind of Looks old yeah we'll we'll take a look when we're out there Betsy i like I said I saw it when the wooden boardwalks
before they had been um rolled up and I didn't so I didn't really notice anything but we'll look 23 yeah i mean I don't know and and Jen and Alyssa are going to give you the original plans but I don't know what was originally there
but this this brick way brick walkway clearly has been there for a long time but I don't know if it was permitted 2012 it wasn't no I'm just saying I'm just saying looking at the conditions of it now that that's all I had
courtney I'll hold my fire till I see the revised plan all right Jen is there anything in the public chat function please nothing in the public chat function regarding this project Mr chairman
see that always scares me because that means there's something big coming up well there's nothing now but wait till next time all right never mind all right Mr boselli you have a request for us correct yes I' I'd request a continuence
to April 16th thank you at the request of the applicant I'll make a motion to continue this till April 16th second all right we have a motion and a second to continue this until April 16th last call questions or
comments we're voting on the continuence betsy Bloodfelter I Courtney Bird I matthews I Kevin O'Brien I ron I Steve I it is unanimous we have
continued this until April 16 thank you Jen thank you Mike thank you thank you yes thank you Alyssa um maybe we can find a time to meet on site next week i'd like to meet sooner rather than later so that we have appropriate time to come up with a game plan and get plans submitted so yeah absolutely that
works okay sounds good thank you all bye thank you good night all right next stop Donald and Nancy Callerin 11 Forester Road East Felmouth ask for permission to install a fiber roll array and conduct beach nourishment
10 yes Mr chairman mike Burcelli Felmouth Engineering is still with us to present this project mike you're any there's no one else in this project team correct no just me you stuck with me mike long time
OC yes it's fiber roll array night I guess um again for the record Mike Worcelli Felmouth Engineering i represent the applicant Don and Nancy Colerin and with your permission I'd like to share my screen yes sir
the callerins own the property at 11 Foster Road it has frontage water frontage on Vineyard Sound wetland resources include land under the ocean there's a coastal beach there is a um
revetment that crosses the majority of the frontage there's an access stairway down to the beach and then there's an eroded section that is was not uh a raet some years ago I believe in 2018 or so
you uh issued an order of conditions that allowed uh what I believe was an old timber wall to be replaced with the rip wrap i believe um BSS design did that original plan um but um they had wanted to um
build the stone revment on this side too but um since there hadn't been anything there that was not allowed so they they back then proposed a fiber roll array in 2018 i believe it was not not this
winter but the winter before in December we had some pretty severe storms from the east southeast and the fiber roll array was eroded away um and we're back today to
uh try to reestablish the fiber roll array again um and hope that we don't get any of those storms um and that that it'll hold up uh better so I've shown the location of the fiber roll array i've shown a
cross-section it will be um installed and then veneered with um sand compatible with the sand on the beach it'll be planted over the top with American beach grass and uh
stabilized as best it can be against the forces of mother nature without an actual um coastal engineering structure and
um I hope that it's successful but um as part of that application as I said we're proposing to add sand over the top we estimate the volume of sand to be 50 cubic yards access will be over a lawn
area as shown on the plan and um pretty much sums up the construction activities the staff provided us with a report um yesterday that we reviewed and
um for the most part they're pretty straightforward there were uh some comments about the fact that I guess this I'll zoom in a little bit this patio area here I believe they were
referring to was enlarged sometime in 2019 or or 2020 there was I looked at the aerial photos prior to that and there was something here that appears as though it may have grown a little bit so
we're going to have to compare and contrast the plan from 2018 to this and that may that will likely require some minor amount of mitigation planting um evidently this this shed was
reconfigured so we have to see if that changed in a way that it got bigger because it's very likely going to be in it it could be within the buffer um to the top of the coastal bank there's a there again for for whatever
reason I don't show the top of the coastal bank on this plan even though it's it's low profile but it is a coastal bank i think I was asleep that day um or maybe it was just forest through the trees I was so focused on the erosion I didn't didn't even consider it being a
coastal bank but it certainly is so we're going to add that and show the I guess it'll be a um since this is eroding it'll be um and it's in a velocity zone it'll be a 75 ft A zone and a 25 foot B zone so this shed may
fall in that otherwise it's in um land subject to coastal storm flowage but we can sort that out and if we need to do some mitigation planting there's an opportunity to do it in a lawn area and we can we can work out the area calculations and submit a revised plan
there was another comment about showing um all trees on the lot the the the lot is pretty much uh lawn house and driveway we show some trees here i'll
have to walk around in inventory and see if I missed a few um I'm happy to add the other trees um as requested in the staff report and evidently there's some steps off the eastern deck so I'm assuming
um since east is this direction maybe you mean this small deck or let's I'm not sure yes that one this one okay so we can we can look at that and and add the steps there and if that's more impervious it'
be minor we can we can also add that to the U mitigation and finally there was a comment about the the sand that's proposed over the fiber roll array estimated at 50 cubic yards we were proposing it as a one one time only
there's no plan in this uh application to do any ongoing beach nourishment if this will be uh monitored and any future uh requirement for sand to keep the fiber rolls uh covered would either come
back um as an amendment to this or if this or an RDA um we whatever whatever is uh appropriate to uh keep the fiber roll array covered which is the goal
so um I guess this probably rises to the level of needing a continuence too but um maybe not i I defer to you on that but if it does need a continuence I'm happy to request one and I'm certainly happy to go over this and take more questions
excellent thanks Mike jen yes no Mike we'll we'll need a continuence on this as far as the sand goes Mike that was pretty deep scarp so 50 cubic yards is what like two dump trucks like each one um we may want
to possibly condition it so in case there is a big storm event after you install this and all that st sand gets washed away you don't have to come back for an RDA but we can talk about that before the before the um continuence
okay like maybe up to 50 cubic yards after after a major storm event with you know documentation something like that just so you're not coming back to us that'd be great if we could do that yeah yeah let's let's talk about that next week um while you're buttoning up the
plan okay okay i'd rather just give you that flexibility than having you file an RDA or an amendment or something like that since you have um a three-year permit anyway okay
that's all Mr chairman all right alo uh just a clarifying note for Mike um I seem to have gotten more specific as the staff report on but the first side deck I was mentioning is the one off the garage not the um the pavers so just north of that just for reference okay
when we meet I'll go over the particulars and we can work that out sure thing uh that's all I have thank you all right commissioner comments ron I'm all set thanks nice job nice job Mike good luck with all the calculations thank you
thank you Steve nothing to add Mr chairman thank you all right Betsy this is another dejà vu all over again
i remember not with you well not with you but I like Don't I remember this site probably road gets hit hard it look It looks like a giant took a a
big bite out of it kind of scary good luck Mike thank you that's all Jamie thank you Courtney no comments all right Kevin no comments Mr chairman
thank you all right jen is there anything in the public chat function for this project nothing in the public chat for this project Mr chairman all right so Jen we're thinking we need a
continuence yep how long do you need i was hoping for April 16th i I think I can deal I can get you things by the 9th okay at the request of the applicant I make a motion to continue this till April 16th heard second
all right we have a motion and a second to continue this until April 16th last call questions or comments we're voting on the continuence betsy Gladfelter I Courtney Bird I matthews I Kevin O'Brien
I Ron Fiscal I Steve I it is unanimous we have continue this until 4:16 thank you Mr boselli thank you very much have a good night
alex all right next one's been previously continued continue to request for hearing under notice of intent first one's been continued second one's been previously continued request to amend an existing order of
conditions yes Mr chairman oh sorry excuse me i haven't even read it yet so first up Jeffrey and Cynthia Andrews 31 34 Wigwam Road Palm of Mass request
to amend the order of conditions for mass DP number 25-4852 to install restoration plantings and to reconfigure the location and square footage of various hardscapes and retaining walls now Jim sorry about that
Mr chairman jump oh yeah we got a late email from Mark Dib he uh is requesting a continuance till April 16th and this should be the last one on that day even though some of the continuences are easy
so moved driscoll second all right we have multiple motions and seconds to continue this until 4:16 questions or comments we're voting on the continuence betsy I Courtney Bird
I Matthews I Kevin O'Brien I Ron I Steve I it is unanimous we have continued this until [Music] 4:16 next up is a continued hearing
under an enforcement order that's been previously continued brings us to vote orders and conditions for the record Betsy you're not on any of them what does that mean or you can hang out with us cool people i I'll hang out with
the cool people a you're awesome all right first up Weatherly Doris Quisset Harbor Boatyard 36 Quisset Harbor Road found Mass um this is just to replace a pilings and reconstruct a portion of the existing
licensed um and permanent pier that's it i have no conditions straight up replacement of a portion of the pier okay i'll make a motion to accept the order of conditions as proposed and discuss
Ron yeah um what about all the the maritime crap that's stored in the mud beside the on the bank or on the on the beach right beside the the pier is that anything we can do anything about we'll ask them to remove it i mean there's a bunch of anchors and mushrooms and
chains and everything over there yeah we'll ask we'll ask the boatyard to clean it up okay thank you all right any other questions or comments all right we have a motion to accept to issue an order of conditions
do we have a second second thank you all right we're voting to issue an order of conditions courtney Bird I matthews I kevin Obery and I ron Brisco I steve
Matt I it is unanimous with this quorum we have issued an order of conditions next up Boyce Campson Acme Falmouth Mass LLC 278 Scranton Avenue Falmouth Mass jim this
is the first of two orders you're going to vote tonight for this property this one involves all of the dredging um it's maintenance and improvement dredging i believe the area of improvement dredging
is in the southern portion of the property where the field dock currently is they want to improvement drudge that because they are going to be reconfiguring and adding some kind of more additional boat slips in that area
um improvement dredging usually um has a higher bar to overcome uh this is a commercial harbor um it's really up to the board it's very it's
a in terms of the overall dredging the improvement dredging is not a large percentage yeah kind of basic really for a commercial harbor it's just that area by that old fuel dock where
they want to reconfigure some of the and just add a few more additional slips [Music] all right anything any comments or questions all right what are you thinking um
I'll I'll make a motion to accept an issue an order of conditions as discussed discal second all right we have a motion a second to issue an order of conditions last call questions or comments we're voting to issue an order
of conditions courtney Bird I matthews I kevin o'brien i Ron Crystal I Steve Matt and I it is unanimous we have issued an order of [Music] conditions next up is to vote amended
order of conditions first up town of Felmouth various waterways and beaches mass that's kind of vague so this is to amend the town's 10-year
comprehensive dredge and uh comprehensive dredge and beach nourishment plan um we are dredging green pond grape pond and I forget the other pond um to a slightly deeper depth
to um try and especially in the area of green pond so that we can try uh and not have to dredge those channels every year right now these channels we're required
to dredge them almost every year um and the competition for the dredge combined with the time of year restrictions with the state um it it's it's it's a shuffle and it's problematic year after year so the hope is that dredging
areas like great and green pond um their approaches to a deeper depth will um give us some brea give the town some breathing room on dredging these inlets every year um inner great pond um we are
uh narrowing that channel um we don't need to have the channel as wide so we're we're narrowing that particular channel and then the other aspect to this project I think that's all it is green great um is the Meansit approach
the Meansit approach the approach to Megan harbor um which is 90% in the town of Felmouth but the approach itself is in the town of Bourne the dredging has already been
approved by the town of Bourne in this case our portion of that project is the dewatering of the approach materials which are um beach compatible materials um so the town would like permission to
dewater those materials on Megan Beach currently there is a prohibition on Meansa Beach because Megansa Beach doesn't need any sand um so we'd be amending the permit to allow for the dewatering of beach compatible material
only no silty material and then the town will truck that material off of Meansa Beach to be utilized elsewhere in town all right questions or comments you covered
everything right Alyssa means it was the biggest point that I recall what means it yeah yeah all right questions or comments input all right what are you thinking i'll make a motion to uh issue
an order of conditions as discussed second all right we have a motion and a second to issue an order of conditions last call questions or comments for voting to issue an order of conditions courtney Bird I matthews I Kevin O'Brien
I Ron Pisc steve I It is unanimous we have issued an order of [Music] conditions next up boy camps Acme Thalmouth Mass LLC 278 Scranton Avenue
Thalmouth Mass so this is the marina we just voted on the dredging um they want to reconfigure um their peers um staff has no concerns um
usually when the board looks at uh a marina um we take the footprint of the marina give them kind of a box to work in and then they reconfigure their slips and peers and travel lifts and fuel docks in
this case there is no fuel dock um within that footprint um this has been done several times in Felmouth Inner Harbor as well as um uh Bosen's boatyard up in um
East Falmouth east Falmouth uh Charles River getting the name of that Landing yeah well Quite Landing used to be Edward Bo yeah now it's Bosen's Marine yeah so I have no problem this is something
we frequently do all right questions or comments all right what are you thinking i'll make a motion to issue an amended order of conditions as discussed second all right we have a motion and a second
to issue an order of conditions last call questions or comments we're voting to issue an amended order of conditions courtney third I matthew Z kevin Brian I Ron Biscal I Steve Bton I
it is unanimous we have issued an order of [Music] conditions [Music] and last up last motion who wants it I'll make a motion to adjurnn
oh blackfelter I bird eye Matthews I O'Brien I call I Steve Patton I it is unanimous we are ajourned thank you everyone [Music]