board meeting for Tuesday, July 8th. Uh in lie of our chairman not being here. Uh I'm jumping in. Um announcement of open meeting uh recordings. Uh I don't know if we need to have that, but I'm going to post it. Any person make a
video or audio recording of any uh session of a meeting or any uh transmit the meeting through any medium subject to reasonable requirements of the chair as to the number, placement and operation of equipment use so as not to interfere with conduct of the meeting.
Any person intending to make such recordings shall notify the chair forth with all documents reference to use during the meeting must be submitted in duplicate to the director of community development and planning persuade to
open meeting and public records law. All doc all documents shall be part of the official record of this meeting. I now hope uh state will go into regular public hearing and go back into the opening of the public hearing at this
time. I Yeah, over to you guys with Emerald Drive. Um good evening. Uh my name is Frank Mcartland. Um I'm an engineer with Dillis and Roy here on behalf of the applicant Steven Mine. Um Ryan Brocker
and Greg Roy are both um expressed regret for not being able to be BB tonight, but we have a lot of meetings and vacations going on at the moment. So, I get uh I get pulled into this. Um, as you know, uh, the applicant is seeking uh, site plan approval for mall
family development. Um, and we'll eventually be looking to subdivide um, the property into two lots uh, through the AR process assuming ultimately plan for approval. um believe uh that based on correspondence
that we received from um Rob Oliver that um all outstanding comments have been satisfactory addressed. I believe um those were addressed in our July June 20th letter to the the
planetary. Um in addition we were asked to provide uh groundwater mounting calculations uh to the the planning board. Um those calculations demonstrated a projected mound fitting the proposed system at 72
hours of maximum of 0.22 ft. So we're not um that's well well within the mass uh D storm water parameters for groundwater mounting for the subsurface and infiltration system.
Um looking through my documentation um ZDA has has issued a special permit uh for the multifamily use and a um and at this point a waiver um has been sought for
having more than one driveway for residential use. Um that was um the highlights of my notes and the information that had been conveyed to to me by Ryan and Greg. Unless um you had any desire to go point
by point through um our June 20th letter or any other correspondence to to the board. I see no need to to go through that. Oh Rob, is there any questions as far as engineering address? No, I was good with all the responses to revisions to the
plans in the storm water calcs. They did provide a groundwater mounting analysis that I know Eric had brought up in the last meeting. So, um I'm good with based on what they've submitted. Um nothing further. Very good. And it's in front of the ZBA
at my my understanding. Is that correct? Um it has gone gone in front of the ZBA and they have issued the special permit and it is with um it's within the appeal period. Any further questions from the board? No. This is a public meeting.
Any questions from the public? Are there any questions from the public? Any questions from the public? Hearing none. I declare the public meeting closed at this time. Motion to close the public hearing. A motion. Second.
Those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. We'll just move right into the regular meeting. Go right into it. The same item. Right. Sure. We'll go right into the old business defender site plan for the multif family residential unit. Uh this
time, do I have any motions? Amicable to the board. I can read off the site plan review for the record. Um just to go through all the full order of conditions. I know there it's a little bit lengthy, but if everyone stay with
me just as I as I read through that as a uh site plan development plan set for Steven Sceni with cover sheet dated February 14th, 2025 and revised through May 8th, 2025. The plan depicts the construction of two residential
buildings each containing three dwelling units. The plan prepared by Dillis and Roy Civil Design Group Inc. 1 Main Street, Sweet One, Lunenburgg, Mass 01462. Conditions one. In accordance with subsection 675270C1,
the planning board grants waiver from the requirement of a single access driveway per residential use, finding under subsection 675740B that the proposed six individual driveways with two off- streetet spaces per unit. Do not create undue congestion
or hazards on or off site and are are in harmony with the intent of the zoning ordinance. Condition two, the applicant shall maintain the revised driveway configuration presented on June 10th, 2025, which retains four existing on street parking spaces along Emerald Street and minimizes pedestrian and
vehicular impacts. Condition three, the applicant shall prior to the acceptance of the Department of Public Works, DPW, grant a drainage easement to the city for the relocated cross-country storm drains that traverses off the site as depicted on sheet floor of their approved plans.
Condition four, the operation and maintenance plan OM shall be submitted to the city engineer on an annual basis no more than 30 days after completion. The plan will will be updated upon formation of the homeowners association to reflect the party responsible for
ongoing system maintenance and the OM will must be recorded as part of the HOA's governing documents and shall remain enforceable under subsection 567-7. Condition five, a construction period, pollution prevention plan, and erosion and sediment control plan shall be
implemented prior to the start of site disturbance. This plan must include staging areas, inspection schedules, and contact information for responsible personnel as described in appendix G of the submitted storm water report. Condition six, the applicant shall
restore the betumi batuminous sidewalk uh along the property frontage in accordance with DPW specifications and ensure ADA compliance for any transitions or curb cuts. Condition seven, street trees, plantings, and other landscaping shown
on the approved site plans shall be installed prior to issuance of final occupancy occupancy permits and maintained in perpetuity by the HOA. Condition eight, the planning board reserves the right to inspect the site and or request documentation at any time to ensure ongoing compliance with these
conditions. Condition nine, all representations made by the applicant engineer and documents submitted as part of this site plan review process are considered binding conditions of approval. And finally, condition 10, all site work and drainage system installations shall be subject to
inspection and approval by the city engineer or their designate. that completes the order of conditions and that is what I'm proposing for for the applicant uh for the board.
All right. Any concerns, questions? Make a motion to approve the definitive site plan with conditions as described by staff. I second. We have a motion and a second to approve the definitive site plan with conditions is as presented. All those in favor. All
those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. So moved. Thank you to the board for all your extra work and everything. Thank you, Jason. Thank you, Rob. Look forward to gardening. Absolutely. I'll get the we'll have these filed
after we get the rest of the board signatures, including Rob's Bob's. Um, sorry. and uh I'll notify you when it's when it's filed with the clerk's office when the appeal period appeal period starts. Thank you very much. Of course. Thank you very much. Thank you.
Have a good night. Welcome. Moving on under old business uh 2.2 2. The ordinance to amend the gardener zoning map changing zoning district designation for following an existing cross lying on the eastly side of Mass 101 in East Garden Eastern Gardener from
the commercial two zoning district to the industrial one zoning district with some so with the summit solar overlay item 11591 as presented to us last night at the meeting. We'll invite um
Josh Josh. Yeah, Josh Reynolds. I'm the parillegal for Attorney Tree who represents uh Mr. Blessington in this project. So, Attorney Tree regrettably can't be here tonight because of her other various commitments throughout
Fitchburg and Gardner. Um but said that there were some issues last night during the joint meeting with being unable to view the presentation. So, I have instructions to kind of um project the presentation, uh pull up any slides that the board
wanted to see, yield any questions. Um she's available via text for some of the smaller questions, but if I needed to call her for a more um complicated answer, I can do that. Very good. The HDMI cord. So, I've not used it here before, so I
might need that. No worries. I'll get the TV on. It usually means I did something. Should go right up. There we go. Okay. So, I'm
not sure what Oh, there we go. As I said, I'm not taking us through the um whole presentation. I'm happy to flip through slides, but as the attorney, I'm not um giving the presentation. Okay. If that's fine,
if you want to just parse through and give us, you know. Yeah. Yeah. I I can go through each slide. Give the board some time to read if you want. Um if I need to go back, just let me know, please. Next couple slides just kind of go
through a comparison between the zones uh for for uses. It's just pulled and highlighted for convenience. and some of the fine work that the corporation has done and the current condition view from um I
always get the address mixed up. So right this right here drive on the left and that's I think this is on Zub Lane looking down towards Correct. That's what I was trying to say. It's it's not on the um the that apartment. Was it Garden Gates?
I want to say D drive. Yes. Yeah. I'm sorry. No, that's right. Yes. Being the one who took the pictures, I can definitely answer questions on where I'm standing when when I took those pictures.
Um just the one on the left is looking towards garden gates. One of the buildings there different time of year. Yes. Did you want me to go back? [Applause]
And for this, I know we already discussed this in the meeting, the public meeting last night, the public hearing. Um the main thing I want to get across in this meeting is that the issue of spot zoning uh for this parcel individually um changing the zoning for
a single parcel raises eyebrows but as was discussed in the public hearing. This conforms and aligns I think the key word here is alignment to the surrounding parcels uh for the summit um
industrial park. um because of that alignment uh because it it it adheres to kind of the surrounding area um does not consider it spot zoning nor is it um to the benefit of a single individual. It does benefit the in in my opinion
benefits the the area in general rather than um what is the definition for for spot zoning. So, I just want to make sure that that specifically is addressed here as it was as it was last night, though Attorney Tree says it a little bit more eloquently than I
Sure. Uh, so yeah, the most like kind of common way to think of like um what the classic spot zoning issue is like if you have like a big commercial zone and then there's a lot kind of in the middle somewhere that somebody then reszones as residential use. That is solely for the
owner's benefit. Um, and there's no other residential use or zone next to it. It's it's stands alone by itself. Um, some of the reasons that this isn't spot on obviously is it's it's uh I
forget the the the legal term that it's used for, but it's just widening the zones next to each other to be more coherent with what its actual uses around it. It's a shift. It's a shift of the of the zoning kind
of um border or outline if you will. Uh and then of course the benefit to the city. It's not just benefiting the land owner. Any questions from the board? No. And I understand you'll making a
recommendation to the city council. We approve or disapprove at this point. So I need a motion on the floor. I guess so. Make a motion to recommend the adoption of the amendment to the gardener zoning map. Uh changing the zoning district
designation for uh this parcel in question from commercial to to industrial one with summit solar overlay. I'll second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I oppose. None. So moved.
So moved. Thank you board members. Thank you Jason for sitting by. You're there too. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you everybody.
All right. Going forward under new business uh preliminary site plan site improvement for 42 Linus Lane Avenue. Do we have a presentation on that? There it is.
[Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Uh for the record, Chris Canyon Engineering on behalf of Mount Wus
Community College uh for a preliminary site plan review uh for a uh proposed addition at the existing property at 42 Linus A, if you will. Uh just to orientate ourselves here on the plan, we have Linus Elaine Avenue that runs along
the side here. And this large browner area is the existing structure at 42 um at the property, if you will. Uh currently, the property, like I said, is previously developed. Uh there's areas dedicate the parking and access throughout the building. Uh the building is currently utilized as part of the
automotive technology center. Um, and as that program continuously grows, uh, a need for additional classroom space is necessary. Um, as such, it's the intent, uh, to construct a 2,000 foot addition within an area of existing pavement near
the rear portion of the site behind the building, if you will, and to the north side of it. Um, it'll be accessed directly through uh the main structure, as well as an additional egress door near the northerly side of the building. Um, as part of the overall uh design of
the site, we're also including additional parking areas. Um, based on the zoning ordinance, we need a total of 31 parking spaces in total. Currently, there's about 35 spaces spread throughout the site. Um, as part of the reconfiguration, at the end of the day, we're going to provide a total of 44
parking spaces. uh with the existing spaces near the front of the site being maintained uh providing an additional seven spaces along the southerntherly side of the site as well as a larger more expanded parking area towards the north side of the property as well. Um
we have reviewed the uh theation of a wetland on the site. Uh we have Mahoney Brook which has its corresponding buffer zones and riverfront area um and most portions of the work will occur within that specifically to the ex the proposed addition. um we will we'll be required
to file with the conservation commission which we intend to do concurrent when we go into the definitive phase of design. Um but all in all um the impacts should be a general improvement over the existing condition. Uh the building's going in existing pavement and all the other pavements getting ripped up in
terms of um lo and seat. So within the jurisdictional areas a general reduction in purpose is expected. Um with that being said, um additional improvements to storm water management is anticipated. Um and it's expected that the existing various other
utilities uh water, sewer, electric are all um satisfactory for the addition structure. That being said, if there's any questions from the board, I'm Carlos. I'm the head of the foundation. We own the building. So if
you have any other questions that are not environmental, you can ask me. Okay. Um, will the, uh, entrance or the being able to get all the way around the building, will it be maintained underneath the new construction? Yep. Nope. That existing loop rogue jug
handle kind of configuration will remain intact. Okay. So, the only I guess, excuse me, the bottom there is that an existing ramp that you're going to be putting in on the bottom. So, currently there's an existing loading door here. It's the intent to build a ramp to grant access so vehicles can get in and out of the building. Is
there access to that side of the building to drive down that? So, right. Yeah. So, right now there's an existing drive goes to a standard loading dock. So, we're just going to be putting a 4 foot ramp in, if you will. Bought the building 3 years ago thinking it was going to be plenty big enough for
our program and our program has tripled good in that period of time. So, Any further questions? One go. Okay, I have no further questions. [Applause]
Okay, we say thank you for the presentation at this time and I guess we'll just take him under advisement at this point. Go on. Thank you very much. We appreciate you taking the time coming in. It's pretty self-explanatory. I think it's a great
program that's out there. Uh a great asset to the city. Great. Chris, I did find some plans for services to the building. I'll send you those so you have them. Cool. Um one of them got a sew service right under that ramp, new ramp. So, you might want to look at that. Okay. Yeah. If you for me whatever you
have, I'll take a look. Okay. I'll get you those. Cool. All right. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Very good. Moving on. Under new business 3.2, the parking variance review for 19
through 21 Stephanie Drive. And that's So, the applicant for that isn't here. Um I had spoken with them um and also spoken with the building commissioner, the interim building commissioner now for the for the city um specifically
about this because this was referred to us off of the ZBA though the jurisdiction of of who to grant who is the granting authority for the this variance of the indivi individualization of the driveways for this these these
condos is still under the ZBA. DA. Um it was it was it it is not for us to make that determination. Um so I've already informed them that I'm going to connect them with the building commissioner who uh they have not spoken to yet. There
was not a building commissioner um I believe when they were going to the ZBA. So hopefully that kind of solves um this issue and kind of clears things up from the miscommunication of of whether this was something for us to lay into or the
ZBA to handle. But because there is no site plan um proposed with this, it is simply the the ZBA appeal uh or the ZBA documentation in front of us. Um there isn't enough documentation even for us to make in a variance if if we wanted
to. So it is it is still under their under their jurisdiction. Very good. Any questions? Thank you. That's one that we worry about. Uh announcements, news, articles, events, next regular meeting is posted
for August 12th. We do still have the minutes. Oh, I didn't skip over the minutes just to get everyone else who's waiting in. Yeah, there you go. We have minutes from June 10th. the uh I have we have the meetings for the meeting of June 10th. Do I have a motion
to accept the meetings as presented? One suggested edit to the votes just to change those all to 4. We have them all at 5. Oh, good. We will make those changes and have them presented to the board at the next
meeting. minutes. Make a motion to accept the minutes as edited. Yes, a simple enough change. I think I think so, too. We would need to see them again. Absolutely. I second it. Okay, we have a motion. We have a second
to uh change the vote to four to nothing versus 5 to nothing and accept that as part of the record. Okay. All those in favor signify by saying I. I oppose. Some move. And the next regular meeting is posted
for August 12th at 6:30 p.m. One meeting. No, nothing on Monday. Okay. I'm doing that three months in a row. Very good. I'll make a motion we adjourn. I'll second that.
We have a motion to adjourn and seconded. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. So moved. Thank you very much.