So I will start with the reading the script. Uh pursuant to chapter 2 of the acts of 2025, this meeting will be conducted via remote means in accordance with applicable law. That means that members of the public body as well as members of the public uh may access this
meeting via virtual means. Participants may access this meeting through the remote meeting link as posted on the meeting agenda and through the town's online calendar when required by law or allowed by the chair. Persons wishing to provide public comment or otherwise participate in the meeting may do so by raising their hands or otherwise
signaling their intents to speak and be recognized by the chair. This meeting will be recorded. Please take care to mute your microphone unless you have been recognized by the chair. We will now confirm attendance of members. Please respond with present if you are on this call. Uh Elise Mowski is not on
yet, right? Um Lucia >> present. Michael >> present. >> Parker >> present. >> I saw Parker. There you go. Thank you. Uh Vic, I saw you. Okay. Uh Omna, I didn't see
>> of is here. Thank you. Um Peter >> present. >> Rob Vincent is not present, I believe. And then Matthew Funka myself is present. Uh staff Aneri Battel >> present. >> And is Lori St. Sean on.
>> Oh, she's not here yet. >> Uh, one second. Okay. Uh, moving on to the agenda. First item was minutes of February 9th, 2026.
Uh, did everybody get uh changes to to Lori and or Reeri for that? Were there any changes besides the ones I proposed? Okay. Um, are we expecting Lori just or or do you know she's got anything?
>> She's here and um we just received comments from you on the last minute. >> Um, I noticed that my changes weren't on the PDF that's in this folder. There's also a PDF and a and a Google doc. So, I'm not sure if one's updated
or not the other, but my two amendments were correcting my name on page two and changing an adjacent property to a nearby property. And I think those are both acknowledged. >> Yes. Let me just make sure Lori, you changed the comments. Am I correct,
>> Lori? Sorry. I'm just plugging in. Um, I did it I did see two documents, one under your name and one under mine. I had updated mine. >> I didn't know which one I was supposed to update. So, it might have he might be looking at the one that was in there from you previously. >> Okay.
>> You're the chair. >> Yeah, Parker. >> I just noticed in scanning the uh notes again that there was a vote recorded as motion passes 00. >> So, mentions that was from the previous meeting. We didn't take a we didn't have a vote in that meeting. We didn't have a
motion in that meeting. >> Okay. If there's no issue there then, >> okay, everybody else is good. In that case, I'd entertain a vote to approve the minutes of February 9th as amended or as uploaded as the Google doc.
>> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. Uh go through roll call vote. Um Parker, >> yes. >> Peter, >> yes. >> Mike, >> yep. Lucia, >> yes.
>> Vic, >> yes. >> Omna, >> yes. >> And myself is a yes. I didn't miss anyone, right? Okay. And so motion passes. Moving on to draft fees in le of affordable housing unit provision
discussion. Um, so this came out of Zach. Um, uh, Lucia, do you want to give the background? I think this came out of a committee that you're part of. Otherwise, I can give give context as well. >> Um, sure. So, the affordable housing
trust fund board and speaking with the town planner, previous town planner, um, we were talking about the, uh, fees in lie of affordable housing in our bylaws and one of the things that came up was how low that amount is. Um, and when the
developers had the option of either building an affordable unit to give to the town or paying essentially the price that somebody who would be buying that affordable unit would pay to the town, they chose to pay the town. Um, so the
affordable units were not getting built and the town was getting somewhere in the realm of $225,000 to $280,000 per unit which as we all know is not a lot especially in Hopkin. Um so we
looked into what other towns were doing and one of the things we came across was that some towns were doing um you would take the median sale price in the town and the developers would pay the
difference between that and what a family buying an affordable unit would pay. So in this case, it would increase the amount that a developer would pay uh if they chose to pay and not build the
unit to give to uh to permanently deed restrict it affordable. >> Thank you. Um and just so I know how the how to run this discussion, what's the goal or outcome of today's meeting on this? Do we need to approve the draft?
Is this just uh circulating it to the board? just circulating uh tonight we're not going to vote on anything. We have this on agenda for our next March 9th meeting. It's a public hearing and at that time we need to vote and finalize that board if still wants
to continue for our annual town meeting and if no then we need to drop and let select board knows about this article. >> So we'll do public comment next meeting when we have a public hearing on this. >> Yes. Um, for anybody on the board, the
draft uh text is there. Um, the Zach was uh in favor of that proposal. There was uh a couple two descents basically um thinking that the value was too high just for context of that or that we
shouldn't be uh we shouldn't have this not be by right. the town voted as part of the town meeting a couple years ago to change this as a byright option to buy special permit of the board just for context. Um so with that background context, does
anybody on the board have questions about the draft bylaw? >> Peter, I just have I just have a brief question. Where does the funding that's generated from this where does it go? How is it used? Lucia, did you want to address that or
do you want? >> Yeah. Um, so when a payment is made by a developer, it goes into the affordable housing trust fund and we have a board in town. Um I'm on that board and so basically it just goes into the fund and
um we recently approved money for an affordable unit to be built um in the Lake Maspan area but prior to I've been on the board for this is my third year. Prior to um that
the board either did not have a lot of money or did not think they had a lot of money. Um, so there hasn't been a lot done with it, but we're starting to get more done. And one of the things, um, for example, is there were some properties that were deeed restricted affordable, but they were not deed
restricted affordable in perpetuity, which means that at some point that will be expiring and they will go back to fair market, which then means we lose deed restricted affordable housing in town. Um, so that's one of the things on our radar to work towards. and uh the
Fruit Street Fields that part of that was purchased with um money that's meant to be used for affordable housing. So, we're also looking at that property to see about potentially building affordable housing near the Fruit Street Fields as well.
you know, just through the chair, it sounds like an obstacle to to helping develop affordable housing units in that and that using that method is a lack of adequate funding, which this appears to attempt to address this uh we're what
we're going to consider next week, >> right? Yeah. So, the there was concern about the earlier value being too low and that we just weren't approving it based on town meetings feedback and people voting for it by special permit. And so this is seen as giving us an
extra option or or revitalizing this as an option of fee and loo that actually is useful to the town. >> Thank you. >> Any other comments from the board before we move on? >> Okay. In that case, we'll move on to our first new public hearing. Um and I would
entertain a motion to open the new public hearing. Oh, yes. >> Sorry to interrupt. uh before you open the hearing weak need to announce and re rescue himself as and because he's an operator right for the property so he needs to do that before you open the hearing
>> ah okay so yeah Vic sorry um I presume you're going to recuse yourself given the conflict >> yes uh I I can recuse myself on this >> okay um >> so at that point I will entertain a motion to open the new public hearing uh
75 South Street uh Mungo T LLC uh minor project site plan application. >> So moved. >> Good motion from Michael. >> I'll second that. >> All right. And then we'll do roll call
vote. Um we should have enough people at that point. Uh going down the list of here. Um Omna. >> Yes. Here. >> Uh Lucia. Yes, >> Michael. >> Yes,
>> Parker. >> Yes, >> Peter. >> Yes. >> Oh, it just re reorganized everybody on me. Uh, Vic is not eligible. And so, is that just me? Did I miss anybody else? And I'm Yes. All right. That's why we never
go down that that roster. Cool. Um, would the applicant like to uh give a brief overview of the project? certainly be happy to possible to share my screen.
>> You have that set up in here? >> Yeah, you can just send me the request. >> Okay. >> Yep. >> We all see that. >> No, >> not yet. Okay. How about now?
>> Yes. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, um Joe Mach, we're not here. I'm sorry. Um my firm prepared the the plans that accompanied that application. Uh we're talking about uh 75 uh South
Street. This is parcel R 2970. It's a 4 acre parcel on the corner of Hayward and South. Um on the plan, Haywood is at the top of the page.
Uh South is to the left. Um there are uh additional property owners to the south along South Street and the right hand side is Route 495. Uh this um building it was constructed circa 1973.
It was a flex office manufacturing space. Um used by um you may recall Valpy Fiser. Um they were there for many years up until uh 2012 when they were acquired by CTS. You may recall uh the
signs out there. They're in the design and manufacturing of sensitive sensors and temperature gauges. Um, Bungo Realy uh Lance Lefave the applicant purchased the building in 2024.
He would like to uh renovate it to a warehouse office use away from the manufacturing. Um to do that there have been several uh upgrades made to the interior of the building uh to modernize
uh that that space. Um the driving force behind the changes uh exterior um is the access for shipping and receiving. Uh they currently enjoy a curb cut along South Street down here on
the southwest corner. that accesses a 67 space parking area along the southerntherly side. Up north along Haywood Street, there are two curb cuts. The most easterly gets you into this parking lot at the rear. 24 spaces. So,
there are a total of 91 spaces for the site currently. The other curb cut along Hwood Street at this location accesses a shipping receiving door right here. The issue with that is on the
interior. Inside is a concrete slab 16x 12x 4 ft high. So anything that is offloaded from a vehicle comes into that slab then has to be lowered to uh the floor of the building and then taken by a second
device to wherever it had to go in the site. That is problematic. takes up an awful lot of uh space and requires many different implements to move materials around. So what we are proposing after much analysis is a change to the loading
dock to add that to the southerntherly side of the building. What we're attempting to do is to cut in two doors here along the southerntherly side. moving that lawn area, paving that area, introducing retaining wall, and
then have the vehicles enter in from South Street and back to this location here. That change um is the uh only change to
the uh not the only but is driving the changes to the parking area. There is uh no increase u in the building size. is there are no new parking areas. So, in reviewing uh the application, that's what puts us at the purview of a minor
site plan. And what we're proposing to do is to lower that area along the southerntherly side so that the trucks can access that existing floor elevation. We'll be taking about 18 inches to two feet of material out of that southerntherly side and then
regrading that area, repaving and then restriping um the parking areas. The uh analysis we did for um vehicle access for delivery vehicle and uh
emergency fire and safety says that the south street entrance is sufficient for vehicle access. Um what does become a a trickier thing is once those delivery vehicles are in place um they would
impact the existing parking places and then once they queue up to leave and they make their way out of the parking lot they're going to need more space than was currently set aside. So, we're going to restripe as well as repave. We're going to restripe some of those
areas at the southerntherly parking lot. And there was also um a small door that's going to be cut into the easterly parking lot. So, we'll lose a couple spaces there. All told, the changes
reduce the number of spaces from 91 to 71. The requirements for parking places by the code based on the use here office and warehouse put us at about 19. So the 71 will be uh will well exceed the
requirements we need of 19 spaces. We um have included uh in this analysis in our application an analysis of the storm water as well. Um we currently enjoy uh a flow across the parking lot
um from northwest to southeast. That's what we will mimic with the changes to grade. So with no new increase in imperous area uh a sheet flow that mimics what is there now um we don't anticipate any issues with regard to
storm water. We meet the mass D stormwater standards with this design. We have done as I mentioned a moment ago an analysis of the traffic flow, analysis of storm water um and um the
needs within the site and a few a few things have popped up. So we have included those in our proposal as well. We have the electronic vehicle charging stations. Um there is an existing walkway here. We are going to maintain
that um generally as the employee parking area. The other areas uh will be we'll have very few cars in those we imagine which should make the delivery uh pick up and drop off a much easier
process. We're going to include uh low ballard lighting along that pathway to create a a safer walk from the building to that main parking area for the employees. Um our septic system, we
enjoy a a connection to municipal water and an on-site septic system. Our septic system is in failure, will need to be replaced. So, as part of this proposal, we are proposing an E1 force main
connection to um the system in Hayward Street. Um that is on the plan and we've got to follow through with both the um the board of health and the DBW to finalize those designs.
There are wetlands resource areas highlighted in green on this plan along the easterly side down here in two locations on the south and then offsite on the abuing property owner. We will need uh an order of conditions from the
conservation commission. Um we took advantage of that snowed out meeting last Monday night and met with the commission last Tuesday and come up with a framework on how to to move that forward. We're going to uh amend our existing order and try to run parallel
reviews to both this board and the um conservation commission. >> Believe that was the the gist of uh the high points if you will of uh the application. It's an awful awful lot of discussion points with a
whole out a whole lot of detail. be happy to take uh anything up and explore in more detail if you'd like. >> So before I ask uh for this and for the staff report, one of the comments was around sidewalks um because I know there's no sidewalks at that side of the street, but there is along the other
side. Was there >> Yeah, the entire side other side of South Street has has sidewalks. We were going to explore that comment with the DBW director to see what the motivation was there. >> So I guess in our mind that's an open item.
>> Okay. Um I I know most of that side of the street doesn't have easy walking. So I think have and then parts of the shoulder get very narrow. So I I kind of agree with the DPW there that having safer walking up and down the street would be uh positive, but we
can save that for when we return it to the board for conversation. And Ner, do you want to uh give a staff report? >> Sure. Um at the moment we receive conservation fire department DPW comments and my comments as Joe
addressed regarding conservation they going to amend on the current application they already have with comcom from fire department they are okay with the modification of the plans and the current drawing their only concern is that um the change of the use
of from office manufacturing to warehouse may require evaluation of the existing life safety system which applicant needs to make sure before they process for the building permit. We have comments from DPW.
The main one as he mentioned regarding Hwood Street for sewer main hole that needs to be installed and applicant needs to make sure that connection gravitate towards the town system. The other comment is that applicant need a
permit from DPW regarding industrial pre-treatment permit. One of them is the sidewalk which we discuss on a south street and how we want to do that. And the last comments from Carrie DPW is like if planning
board approves the site plan application applicant need some permits from DPW and sewer department before they go to apply for a building permit. From site plan perspective, the proposed project is limited to re regrading, repaving and
restripping to install to overhead doors and utility upgrades within the current impreous disturbed areas. So no net increase in impreious surfaces and as application submitted the storm water report and operation maintenance plan.
Both documents indicate the project qualify as a redevelopment and because of the limited scope an absence of new stormwater structure or site minor site plan a peer review does not require to appear um necessary
basically. However, if board determines that we need peer review for the this project, we can go in that direction. Otherwise, as per the site plan standards, the project is under um uh criteria and there's no waiver
requested from applicant side on this project. >> Thank you. Um I saw that Carrie was on, but I presume given her um alias here, she's on for the next public hearings. Uh but Carrie, if you had anything to add as DPW here.
>> No, I I'm availing questions, but um pretty much summarize that the comments. The particular one about the sidewalks is there's not enough public right away. But um we do get a lot of requests specifically to improve pedestrian access from the bus
stop that's across the street um near the Dunkin Donuts to Project Just Because which is next door. And the safest place to cross would be at that intersection, but there's no sidewalk and there's not enough space in the public right away to do that. So, I wanted to bring that to the planning board's attention in case they wanted to
work with the applicant and try to improve connectivity there because then that's something that you guys typically look at. >> Thank you, Carrie. Yeah, that was a major initiative of the board a couple years ago um as we it'd be nice to come back to that at some point, but I know
we've been busy with other things. Thank you for raising that, Carrie. Uh I will open up to the board for comments and questions then. Is there any comments or questions from the board? Oh, sorry, Derry. There's no consult uh no consultant. I'm just going through the thing, right? So, yeah. Okay. To the
board. Lucia. Um, in terms of the sidewalks, I was looking at section 210-136.1, letter M, which would be page six in our packet. and that says sidewalks shall be
provided along the entire frontage of the subject property along existing public ways. The planning board may approve alternative provisions or wave the requirements of this standard in situations where sidewalk construction or use is not feasible or practical. Um
so given that that is part of section 210 etc. Is that something that the applicant should have requested a waiver for >> an area? >> If applicant do not want to address that
then yes they need to submit the waiver request and then board can vote and decide. >> Thank you. Any other questions from the board? Any questions for the applicant either? All right. No questions from the board
right now. Um, any questions, concerns from the public? I see some people have come on camera. I'm not sure if it's for this or subsequent. I'll open up to public comment. No public comment. Um, does the board feel like we could
use how does the board feel about at the moment feel about whether this needs uh peer review or if it's minor enough or do we need to kind of walk the ground and say before we make a decision on that? >> Anybody on the board have an opinion? So to me, uh, Matthew, it seems minor
enough, but I'll defer to the wisdom of the board if they think differently. So, >> do we want to take a look around? >> I'm always in favor of a sitewalk, but I know it's hard to get everyone together.
>> Um, if we continue, would the applicant be looking to continue us until next Monday if we or Yeah, next Monday, right? The next meeting. Um, if we want to do a sidewalks and we could try and schedule a sidewalk on Saturday. >> Oh, absolutely. >> Does that work for the board if we
scheduled something around uh 10:00 a.m. on Saturday? I don't know what everybody's schedule is these days. >> That would work. >> Yeah. >> Does that work for the applicant? >> Yes. >> Okay.
So, let's schedule uh schedule sitewalk for 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. Uh the parking lot's in good enough condition right now that we can park there for the sitewalk. >> Yep. They're all they've all been plowed. Access is is uh no problems at
all. >> Okay. Um any other questions or concerns or things to ask from the board right uh of the board right now? If um before we look for a motion to continue, no other questions. Uh any last any
anything else from the applicant at this point? Uh or we can look to continue it. >> No, I think we're uh tight could do a lot of help and then we'll pick all this up at the next hearing. >> Cool. Then I'll look for a motion to continue until March the hearing until
March 9th. So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. Was Mike and I believe uh do a roll call vote. >> Uh Peter, >> yes. >> Uh Parker, >> yes.
>> Mike, >> yes. >> Lucia, >> yes. >> Omna, >> yes. >> Elise, >> yes. >> And I'm a yes. That's everybody that's part of this hearing, right? Okay. >> Yep. >> So continue until March 9th. Uh thank you very much.
>> Okay. Okay, thank you. >> You >> and that moves us to our next pair of um hearings. Um, you recommend doing these sequentially even though it's the same applicant,
right? Bob's not here, so he doesn't need to recuse himself. We can open this hearing and then we can do the Wilson Street if that's okay because Rob can take a part in the other
one. I mean we can open the hearing but >> so is your recommendation to we can open both but then just do one at a time once they're open. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Uh does both need separate motions presumably?
Yes, we need both >> different motions, different hearing because it's a two different application from applicant side. >> Yeah. >> So, we can move in that direction. >> Okay. Um just to make sure the hearings are open. Um let's open both hearings
and then we'll return to the first of the two. Um so I would entertain a motion to open the new public hearing on Pawn Street, School Street, Spring Street, West Elm Street, Scenic Road application from Eversource Energy. So moved.
>> Second. >> Thank you. Um Peter, >> yes. >> Parker, >> yes. >> Mike, >> yes. >> Lucia, >> yes. >> Vic, I assume you're back on the board now.
>> Yes. >> All right. Amna, >> yes. >> And Elise, >> yes. >> And I'm a Yes. Okay. And let's I'd also entertain then um pausing this hearing and opening new public hearing Wilson
Street Scenic Road application. >> Some moved. >> Second. >> Motion and a second. All right. Peter, >> yes. >> Parker, >> yes. >> Mike, >> yep. Lucia, >> yes.
>> Vic, >> yes. >> Amna, >> yes. Elise. >> Yes. >> And I am a yes. Okay. Let's go back and do Pawn Street, School Street, Spring Street, West Street, Scenic Road
application. Uh is the applicant on >> All right. Matthew, do you want to uh give us an overview? >> Yes. So my plan was to present both of them uh at first uh just so I can get my presenting out of the way and then uh discuss uh discuss them. Uh if I can
share my screen I will open up. There we go. All right. Can everyone see my slideshow? Yep. Excellent. All right. Let me move it over here so I'm at the camera. Uh, I
would like to ask for just a little bit of grace. Y'all, I have been working 12 to 16 hour shifts since last Monday through the weekend. Uh, what with that blizzard that happened last week, so my brain's a little full of cotton balls. Um, so, uh, we got two removal projects, uh,
that I am proposing. Um, one is on the 126 H1 circuit, which is the grouping of streets. uh the one with the grouping of streets. The second is the uh Wilson Street um part which is on our 455H3
circuit. Uh the 126 is sort of like a bog standard removal project that we do um all the time in various towns. Uh the 455 the Wilson Street is a little special. Uh that circuit is um what we call a potential penalty circuit. And
what that means is that it has had a quantity of outages that the Massachusetts Department of um Department of Public Utilities consider is uh considers a threshold of what is unacceptable for Massachusetts citizens
to have to experience. It hasn't hit the threshold yet. That's why we call it a potential penalty circuit. Um but basically the gist of it is people on this circuit are experiencing lots and lots of outages and it's something that we want to uh minimize as much as we
can. Um now I've been um just as a quick introduction I've been uh an arborist with Eversource either directly or as a contracted work planner for eight years. Uh before that I studied forestry at the University of Vermont. Uh I
>> Are you showing your slides right now? >> I am. I'm gonna battle a styling on my screen. >> Oh my Oh my gosh, that's embarrassing. >> We're near the Caspian Sea. >> I'm a bit worried. I'm a bit of a history buff. Let's uh We got it. Got it
now. Yep. Excellent. So, um just almost as harrowing maybe as the Battle of Stalingrad is this photo that I have. Uh now, this is what we're trying to prevent, right? Uh this tree has fallen onto our high voltage lines. Um and this is not a stock photo. This is
not a photo that I have in my back pocket that I pull out that I pull out for these presentations. This was a photo that was sent to me um by one of my tree crews last week during the storm restoration. Um now, if you look at it, these these
wires are dead, I think. I'm fairly sure. Um but what you look at if you uh what you can see here is that this large tree has fallen on top of our uh what we call primary lines. The lines at the very top of the pole, both are high voltage. Uh the minimum voltage that throws that flows through these things
are 4,000 volts. Uh it can get up to the low tens of thousands of volts compared to the 120 volts that comes out of your outlet. Um so this tree is resting on these power lines. These power this tree is also resting on this metal chain link fence. So if these lines are electrified, they're touching the tree.
Trees touching the fence. Uh these lines are alive. This fence is potentially electrified. Um and it could be harmful for anybody who touches it. Um, so the point of that is we are trying to get these trees down because I believe that they um they hold a potential risk to
public safety, not just electrical reliability. Um um so I figure um it would be good to take a little crash course crash course on our boral culture. Um when arborists
look at trees um we look at a few different things. Uh if you look on the top right you see this little decision matrix. Um and it's uh this is not this has nothing to do with utilities. This is by standard from the um
from the uh uh the uh certifying organization across alloculture. Um and it on the left most column it shows is the the likelihood of failure of impact. Basically if the tree how likely is the tree to fail and if it is to fail, how likely is it to hit
something we don't want it to hit? And the rest of the columns uh measure that out by consequences of failure. If it hits something we don't want to hit, what are the consequences of it? Right? And that determines our threshold for risk. Um, if you have a tree with a hole
in it that is leaning over your fence and that's the only thing it's leaning towards, your threshold for acceptable risk is going to be a lot higher for that than a tree this exact the exact same tree that's leaning over your house. Uh, when it's leaning over your house, something you care about a lot
more, you live there, um, that's expensive, um, your threshold for risk is much lower. Now, I would argue that anytime that there are power lines involved, especially power lines in the right of way, the consequences of tree failure are automatically significant.
They're automatically starting in the right tomost columns. Um, when these trees go down, um, they block the road, they block emergency essential services. Um, people lose power that they depend on, uh, to keep their houses warm if
they're not on gas, uh, and to cook their food again, if they're not on gas. Um so it it's a big deal when these things fail. Um and then in the bottom uh twothirds of this slide I have um
sort of the a few of the different things that arburists use to determine how risky a tree is. On the left side you have biological defects. Uh these are rot um tree pests uh mushrooms or decline or the tree
declining with deadwood in the canopy. On the right you have mechanical defects. This is stuff like excessive lean. Um if the unions have a weak joining or a strong joining. Um are they touching the wires? Are they growing in between the wires? Uh is there previous
storm damage? Um when a tree drops a limb that it's not planning to drop because of a storm one. Um it's already a stress tree because these things evolved to survive storms. So if it's dropping a major limb, it's unhealthy in some form. it doesn't have the energy
that it should have to put into holding on to these things into into having strong wood. And then that compounds with uh it just lost a major limb. It just lost a percentage of its canopy that it gets that it grows leaves out of that it uses to uh feed itself. So it
becomes a sort of a spiral uh towards death. Um a lot of these once you get a few of these things overlapping with each other. Uh so this is a summary of the tree list for both projects. On the left is Wilson Street. On the right is that other large
circuit. Um in total it's 85 trees. Uh varying in size classes. Um >> there are um you want to go on mute. >> So 31 of these trees are ash that are infected with emerald ashbor. This is an
invasive beetle that has, not an exaggeration, a 99.9% mortality rate for anything that it infects. At this point, eastern Massachusetts, if you are not, if you haven't been treating your ash for a year for years at this point, it's going
to get EAB and die. Uh these we're expecting it to go extinct anywhere that EAB is found, emerald ashbor. So, I would consider that these trees are dead trees standing. A few of them may put out leaves uh and be alive on a technical level for another two or three years. Uh but they are on the way out
and there's not really anything that the ship has sailed and kind of preventing it. Um and then three of these trees are dead. Um so I'm excluding the ash um from the dead category. um three non- ash trees
are dead on this list and that adds up to almost half of these trees being dead or virtually dead and then I've given further um each tree a risk rating. Uh now if you look up the table there are four risk ratings low, moderate, high or
extreme. I only have three. Uh that is because if a tree meets the criteria for an extreme risk that doesn't mean contact the town of Hington and schedule a hearing to get the tree to cut down. It means run away from the tree because it's falling over uh right now or will
be like by the end of the day. Um so three is the at in my opinion the most risk and three and uh uh two sort of moderate and then one is at low risk. Um and I have a few examples of
uh trees I put in each category. So this tree is on Wilson Street. It earned a rating of one. Um, it's a tree that is on the list mostly for form. I didn't put a red arrow on this slide, but it's sort of the one that's bending back. It's on the right side of the screen and
it's bending back over the road. Uh, this tree has what I would call poor form. Uh, wood is really, really good at up and down pressure, but with that kind of angle on it, it introduces side to side pressure. Wood's not as great um at that kind of shear. Um, there's nothing
really wrong biologically with the tree, but with uh the way that it's growing, it's chasing the light that's coming out from the middle of the road. It's not a tree that we have the option of pruning in a way that will stop it from growing, continuing to grow out and over. It's
only ever going to be over the wires in this way. And and as the tree gets taller, it's the the forces involved on that sort of lean are just going to grow more. But it doesn't have any biological issues. It's got a nice canopy. Uh, so other than the lean and the form,
there's not much going on wrong with this tree, which is why I gave it sort of that lower risk rating. Uh, this is one of my number twos, moderate risk. Uh, this large tree on the right. Um, and you'll see what the issue I have with this tree on the next
slide is it's got some base rot. Um, so you want on the left side, I've sort of zoomed in on the cavity. Um, and you can even see that the tree has tried to seal it up on the top of that image, but there's still a crack there. Um, so there's some rot in this tree. Um, if
you look at the outline, you want a tree to have sort of like a nice taper, smooth tapered down, maybe getting a little bit wider as it gets to the bottom. This thing sort of has like a a round shape where the rot is. That means the tree is sort of ballooning around the rot. That means the rot there there
there's a sizable chamber within this tree that is empty. Um, and if you look in the upper half of that photo to sort of on the left of the of the tree stem, you see sealed over cracks or sealed wounds, that tells me that the rock column in this tree goes up a few feet.
Uh, so it's not just limited to this cavity. Um, but other than that, uh, I don't I didn't really see any pests in this tree. I didn't really see any other issues. Uh, so there's just a structural weakness going on. Um, but it is significant. So I put it in the middle
category. Uh this large guy on the left is right next to that tree actually. He has my third rating um for mo what I would consider the most hazardous. Um and here are the reasons why. If you look on the right, I have
put an arrow next to every single dead limb on that I could see on this tree. It's a lot of it. Um and then what I circled was one of the limbs that it does have still alive has a large open wound on it. It's kind of hard to see in the photo. Um, but this this wound is
several feet long. Uh, it's maybe a little shorter than I am tall. Um, so there's a lot of dead wood in this tree and one of the mainlands it has still going is hanging on by a thread structurally. And then on the left, sort
of near the bottom, I found beetle holes. Uh what that means is that there there are wood eating beetles inside of this tree uh gnawing away all of the really important wood that should be there um to give it structural integrity. So it's lost a lot of canopy. There's pests in it. Uh there's a major
wound in the in the limb that's direct most directly over the road and the wires. A lot of things are overlapping on this tree. Uh so it earned it earned my highest risk category. And then here are some ash. Uh again,
these things have emerald ash bore automatically. Uh they're going to go right to the top. But on top of that, both of these trees are actually touching our high voltage wires. Um so, uh as they rub away sort of the weather the weather coating um on this
tree on these wires, there's a potential for this these trees actually catch fire if you don't remove them. Um so both of those things combined rating of three. I mean any ash is going to be automatically a rating of three just because of that test. But that is sort of the the methodology that we have
going on. And then uh I sort of stole this from the presentation I gave to the Ashlin side. Uh so ignore the pink line. That's uh how street on the uh the Ashlin side of the line, but I wanted to put this sort of in context of the larger
forest. Uh it's a lot of trees I have on this list. 85. It's almost 100. Um it's it's a lot of trees. Um but um Popington as a whole is a very forested community. Um I wouldn't I
wouldn't necessarily call the trees I have on my list street trees proper uh like you would have in a Boston or a more urban area where each trees is um very integral to the overall urban for
the urban forest. Uh Hopkins is in the middle of the woods and um I wanted to run some numbers by you guys to sort of show you the the scale of what we're dealing with. Um so I divided uh this by the town line. Hop, this is Hopkinson
State Park, the black outline. Um and I put that there are twothirds of this state park that are actually in Hawkington. The rest are in Ashland. I think the number is closer to it's a 3/4 split in Hington, but uh with the numbers I'm going to show you, I wanted you all to be clear that like I wanted
it to be clear that like this is an under this is a low ball figure. Uh the DCR gives 1500 acres total for the entire state park. Um yeah, we'll go here. Um so yeah, 1500
acres total for the entire state park. Uh I found a study published by my own university um from 2019 to 2020 um that did a health uh assessment of the overall status of Massachusetts forests
and the number I found in there was that on average the uh for forested landscapes there are around 190 trees per acre. So 2/3 of that 1500 acres, so that would be the Hopkinson section me
would have us with 1,000 acres of Hopkin State Forest. Uh 190 trees per acre times 1,000 acres is 190,000 trees in the Hopkin portion of the Hopkin State Park. The US Forest Services figure for the
annual natural mortality rate of New England forests. That's not having to do with anything man-made or managed pests. That's just trees competing with each other for light and resources and water and native pests and just natural mortality is 1%. Uh that would mean that
the expected natural mortality every single year in the Hopington portion of the state park is 1900 trees. 1900 trees died last year. 1900 G's are going to die this year. 1900 trees are going to die next year. Um which uh I think the
85 that I have on this list sort of pales in comparison to what is the normal mortality rate um of New England forests. Um and that's just the Hopkins that's just for Hopington State Park. That's not 1900 trees in the town of Hopington. That's
just in that small little corner. uh and the rem I would also like to point out that the removal of these trees it does not contribute to deforestation. The land's not being developed. It's not getting paved. It's not getting replaced with nonforested use. Um the adjacent trees that are currently of less risk
are going to quickly grow into the canopy space. Um this is not a number of tree removals. My point being that this is not going to be a number of tree removals that the local ecosystem uh is going to feel. It's losing way more than that already just doing what
it's doing as the end of my presentation. >> Go back to the uh summary page because it's probably going to be the most useful. >> Uh and Neri, do you have a staff report here or should I ask tree warden?
>> You can ask Carrie. We don't have any comments on this two topics. >> Okay, Carrie, do you have any uh any feedback you want to give? Any statements? So yeah, I'll make Thank you, chair. Um, so I've reviewed all these trees as a tree warden and I agree with the
assessment and I um endorse the removal of them. I wanted to point out that any of the dead trees technically aren't by scenic road bylaw. Um so Eversource has by right um once I approve them which I am doing right now um they can remove
the dead trees and that several of the trees are outside the right of way but they still fall under our scenic bylaw because they um our bylaw includes limbs that over reach the trees but I uh certainly appreciate Everource being
willing to remove those dead trees and damaged and declining trees um because we often get complaints about them, but the town, we don't have the rights or the ability to remove those. So, I personally am very appreciative of this work because these are some of the roads that we've had a lot of concerns about,
calls about and um some of them are been high risk for road closures because the um trees like West Elm had a tree down two storm events before. So, I think this will really help the town um be more resilient to upcoming storms. In addition, um, and I will point out, and
you know, a little, uh, plug for Eversource, you know, this recent blizzard, no power outages in Hopington due to trees, which is pretty amazing when you looked at what happened the rest of the state. And I think that's because of a lot of the proactive work that they've been doing um, and that our DBW's been doing.
>> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> One thing I didn't uh, I forgot to mention because I focus I was focusing on the tree removals. I've also included on this application for Wilson Street the and I don't have them individually listed but pruning to our 15 ft of overhead clearance limbs that are larger
than 5 in in diameter. Um that's not a blank check to cut a 15 foot tall um sort of square in the in the canopy space over our our wires. Uh these trees would get pruned to our uh what we call
ANIE standards. That's ANSI. Uh has nothing to do with utilities. that is the standard regulator. It's the the um it's the industry self-regulation of what is considered healthy pruning. Uh these ANC standards take into account
the trees natural um biological processes and incorporates how it heals over pruning cuts um in order to make cuts that are healthy for the tree that they will heal over quickly and minimize um the uh minimize
any kind of risk of like fungal fungus getting in there. Um so we would not be just cutting every 12 inch limb that's right over our wires. uh we would be pruning to industry standards that are not utility specific that are uh prioritize tree health.
>> Thank you. Um two questions for Carrie. Um I assume you're fine with the 5- in trim pruning as well, but also um the the level one risks don't don't sound like risks, but the concern is that they would become risks and we want to take
care of those now. Is that how I'm understanding them? Um, in my opinion, I mean, they're all a risk. Um, they're just, I think, what would like a lay person would consider kind of healthy, like they might have leaves in the summer and this and that,
but more so like it's the lean, it's a proximity. So, those would be the ones that probably would be of more concern to the planning board, but um, in general, there's still a risk to to the safety of the the power circuit. Um, and
as Matthew pointed out, I mean, all of them have some kind of deficiency. And yes, like they're at lower risk. So, you know, maybe they'd last a couple more years if you thought the value for the scenic road was more than the value of protecting the wires. Um,
but that's why you guys have that that choice. Um, but as I said, I've inspected all of them and I agree. I would remove them all. Yeah, the the low risk is relative to me putting this this uh list together. Um if a tree pose uh no risk to the wires of the road, it
wasn't included. So every tree on this list is on here for a reason, but within the list, these are the lowrisk trees. to the chair. >> Yeah, I'm not. >> If the tree is low risk and it's level one, um, does the whole tree have to get cut
down or can you do it so it's respectful to the scenic road and also provide safety so you can top it to a certain level? Is that a possibility? >> So part of part of those ANIE standards are you shouldn't be removing more than a third of a tree canopy uh in any given
year. Um, so, um, if the tree is on this list as a level one because it's like a smaller tree that's kind of leaning over the wires, um, it means that there's not a way for us to prune it in a way that's healthy for the tree. Um, now, if you want us to just top these trees so that there's something there, uh, it's not
it's not going to look good. But the other thing is that doing so would make it very difficult for the tree to recover. Um, and then it could then as it declines and dies. um become a further risk not to the road layout because we topped it or not to the wires
because we topped it but potentially to the road layout. >> You had also mentioned that it would be harder removing these would give opportunity to other healthier trees if I recall. >> Yes. >> Uh before I open up to public any other questions from the board?
No other questions from the board. Okay. They'll open up to the public. Uh Mr. I'm sorry. Do you have a comment? >> Yes. Good evening everyone. Um so should answer please. Yep. >> Yes. Uh 92 Spring Street. Uh I do believe the um the the notice was sent
to SPK property which is the uh 94 Spring Street, but it doesn't matter. I do believe that you know we are talking about the 92 Spring Street in this case. Um, the quantity of the trees that's listed for the 92 Spring Street is a
little bit a little bit concerning. I think they're listing, if I read this correctly, 30 to 32 trees in one property. And this is not a 50 acre property. I think the only um it's only 50 ft frontage with the street. And if I
read this correctly, almost every single trees listed in that uh in that uh property. So that's one thing I want to make sure that you know I'm reading this correctly. We're talking about pretty much you know 30 32 trees. Some of them are quite old. I heard Matthew uh that
you mentioned that you know the trees they're going to grow back quickly. I mean some of these are 30 36 in you know um uh large tree. They they take 100 years of growth to get to this size. Right. So this is not something that we get back in 5 10 years. And you know
this spring street is is a scenic road for that reason. So um so I know Carrie that uh you know you mentioned that you have uh verified and approved the uh all the trees. That's that's pretty much my question for this Spring Street 92 Spring Street.
Every single tree in that list is going to go. Is that the plan? >> Carrie. Uh well, all the trees that are listed for this hearing and all of them were marked and I believe Matthew can correct me, but they were marked with blue tape. So, it's not every tree, it's only the
marked trees. >> So, yeah, for 92, you said 92, not 192. >> Yeah, 9294. I see one here. Maybe if you can filter. And Carrie, I'm sorry. I didn't see any blue tape to be honest with you. I maybe I didn't notice. Maybe I didn't pay attention to it.
>> So, uh 92 Spring Street. All we have there is um pruning of a of a limb. Uh there aren't actually any removals for 92 Spring Street. So I'm not sure how the notifications went out. Um but we for 92 Spring Street um there's not a whole lot
going on. >> Yeah, I'm thinking that number that you're talking about is the total number for this hearing and the notice was for the public hearing but not specifically and it was sent to all the abutters but not specifically the number of trees that were being removed from that property. >> That explains it. That's a big relief to
be honest with you because the way that I uh I saw the notice it says 92 Spring Street and the list it just keeps going. So in that case, yes, I appreciate the explanation and I think uh yes uh as long as for the 92 Spring Street goes um
um we have no problem with that. >> Uh as far as Spring Street as a whole, the majority of the ones on Spring Street are those ashes that I was talking about that are sort of dead tree standing. >> Yeah, sadly that's that's a very sad situation with the ash trees. Absolutely. >> Thank you. Any other comments?
>> Thank you. Any other comments from the public? Okay. Uh comments from the board. Is there anything? >> Yeah. Hold on. Hold on. >> Sorry, I was looking for hands raised. >> Okay. >> Mr. Lions,
>> I speak now. >> Yes, please. >> My name is Ed Lions. Um, I live I'm picking up an echo. I'm sorry. Uh, I live at 29 School Street, which is a house that is right in the intersection of school and winter. And
we have two different issues that I've spoken to the planning board about. Um, and I've had I have a source rep here too about this and he agrees both of them are dangers to the wires. Uh, but they're because of the unusual
positioning of my property, it's it's hard to if I can just share something with you just to a Google Earth capture and show you where we are. >> May I? >> Sure. Or and Eric, can you help with that?
>> You can just uh share and ask me the permission. I'm able to give you that. >> Well, well, if you have it, I can do it my I know that I sent them to you. Um >> let me see. But I can do my computer too.
>> Just let me see if I can pull that up. By the way, while she's finding that, I should clarify these are two issues that are not on this job proposal right now. I feel they should be added to it. Okay, so these I think we have in the
public comment folder, correct? Um, and Carrie or Matthew, I think you guys talked about this and these are not within um, Eversource doesn't basically have any uh, right to to do anything on these trees, right? That's the issue here.
>> Uh, yes. So, um, I did mean to hand out to your property before the hearing. Uh but like I but uh like I mentioned earlier uh I've been working the storm uh pretty heavily. Um so I believe the issues are with uh trees not in the road
layout and then also with wires in the trees from the pole. Is that correct? >> It depends. There's again two different issues. Um the first one the wires and the tree. I have a guy wire uh a tree on the back of my property. I I have frontage on both
Winter and School Street. The back of my property faces Winter Street. I have a tree that's badly decayed. The woodpeckers have been having a grand old time on this thing. And got about an 8ft wound up the side of it. And there's a guywire that goes
across Winter Street to uh one of your poles between 225 and 227 Winter Street. And um we can't touch that because one of your it's attached to one of your poles.
And so I was trying and that's only 150 feet from from some of the polls that are mentioned in your announcement here. And you know it's >> we can't take it down. >> Yeah, we can't touch it. It's going to
come down. It's badly wounded. I could show you a photograph of it. Um but uh it's only a matter of time before the things go. This is probably a 60 or 70 foot tree. It's quite old. It's over a hundred years old and it's got about an 8 foot wound in it. That's not visible,
ironically, from the street. Only from our property and we only just discovered this maybe 3 months ago uh that we had this problem. Um so I'm trying to get that added to it. Um uh I'm sorry, but I forget her name, but
Hopkin Zoom 2 here has all this information. I sent her an email. And um the other matter is a tree that actually ironically you're saying it's not on your list. Ever source brought it to my attention
two and a half years ago. This is the school street and this is between this would definitely fall on the wires uh that are mentioned. the list of poles we mentioned this tree is directly opposite maybe 25 30 feet
away and it's about a 60 foot tree actually twin trunks and two and a half years ago an arborist from Eversource whose name unfortunately I don't remember it was a woman um approached us
for permission to take down three different trees on our property because they threatened your wires and They blew they had the blue tape on them and so forth. Eventually, nothing was ever done. Eventually, we took down one
of the trees because it was danger uh our property. We took it down about two years ago. Uh the other tree was still alive at the time, but she told me it's the first time I ever heard of of emerald ashbor was what she told me. And
the she showed me the damage, how to identify it, and so forth. And I okayed it. I have a copy of the cont of the approval, the permission slip, which of course I can't show you right now. Uh still here, and they never did anything
about it. And this one is between uh polls uh 5014 and 5015, which are on the school street side of my house. Uh I have two driveways. This is by by my lower driveway.
And um we never took that tree down because Eversource told us they were going to and I don't have to tell you how expensive this is for homeowners to do this kind of work. And I would just like to get this back on your list. You were going to do it two and a half years ago.
It never happened. And oh by the way, the tree is totally dead now. At the time it was partially alive. It still had a a light crown on it. But she told me, she says, "Another year or two this tree is going to die." Well, it lost its last leaves this last August and in
November it started dropping branches in the street. Um, I couldn't get any pictures because of the snowstorms. Um, but it's still there. It was never done and I'd like to get it back on the list. >> Thank you. Uh, Matthew, did you get a
chance to check the pole ownership or any of >> Yes. So, I do sympathize u, but the poles in Hopkin are owned and maintained by Verizon. So that's an ever that is not an Eversource wire uh stapled to the trees. That isn't a Verizon uh guy wire.
So that's not something that I have any uh influence over. Um the trees are not in the layout. So it's definitely something that you and I can um work out outside the planning board hearing because they're not under town jurisdiction. Um the person you spoke to
is one of my work planners. Uh, and basically what happened was they gave me um the list of trees that they wanted to take down and then I went through it and uh took trees off or added trees um as I thought appropriate. Um so I believe the
reason I took your trees off is because uh there is a um not enough of a lean towards the wires. Um and when trees are across the street are um we really do want there to be a strong lean towards the wires. But it's something I'm very happy to come by your property at some
point once I'm done with the storm. Um, and we can take a look at it together and I can take a second look. >> Okay. >> Okay. Thank you very much. And so that's not going to need to come back before us because that's outside of the jurisdiction. So you can handle that outside of the board. >> Okay. But what about the one on win on
on my property that crosses winter? That's got a guy wire to one of your poles. >> Yeah. They they're Verizon poles. So they're they're not the poles aren't owned by Eversource in Hington. >> Well, where is Eversource? We don't have underground utilities here.
>> So your cables are up there. >> So multiple so multiple it is confusing. Um multiple company there's like four companies on these poles. There's Comcast, Verizon, Eversource. Um, our our wires, our electrical wires are
at the very top of these poles, but the poles themselves in Hopkin are oper are maintained by Verizon. So, the guy wire is Verizon guywire. >> Why did two years ago this woman tell me that your your company was going to take
these down? Because they endangered your wires. So, I'm at this point I think I'm going to let Matthew and sync up outside of the meeting. And I I don't know that he might be able to answer that on his own either, but if he's got any of that context, I'll let him follow up outside the meeting.
>> Yeah. Does Matthew, do you have my contact information? >> Uh, yes. Carrie forward it to me. So, he'll I I'll stop by your property and if you're not there, I'll leave my business card. >> I'm retired, so we're easy to find. >> Sounds good. >> Thank you. Any other um public comment?
Um, I don't see any hands raised. So, if anybody else is having trouble finding the hand raising thing, uh, just unmute and say hi or wave frantically. I'm not seeing anybody else on the screen. Let me just see. Just trying to
scroll. Okay. All right. I'll bring it back to the board then. How's the board feel? Um, I feel like a sitewalk for this would probably take all day. Um, Carrie gave some good good context. Um,
>> the chair. >> Yeah, Parker. >> I think Carrie's the one thing that stuck out to me is her citing that we did not have power disruption and especially when you think about other communities in, you know, adjacent areas
that were equally or even hit with less snow than we were that had systemic outages. I think this kind of work is essential and really appreciate all the hard work that's been done to accurately identify the right, you know, trees to remove because it's just going
to make for better service long term. So, really appreciate all the hard work here. >> Does anybody have concerns about any of the trees that are on the list? I don't think anybody went through all the list, but any of the anything that was was picked uh or any
of the ratings or any thoughts about anything? I don't see any feedback from the board. So, do people feel like we're ready to move on with a vote for each of the hearings? >> I saw Peter go off mute and then say something, but I didn't hear what he
said. >> I said yes. >> Vic said yes. Okay. computers, I guess. Okay. Uh, all right. So, we can move through this. There's no waiverss for anything. Uh,
just scrolling. So, do this one hearing at a time in order for the packet. So, the first one is, let me just go up a level. Uh, the Pond Street, School Street, Spring Street, West Elm Street.
So read the decision criteria. Do we need to read a decision criteria on? >> Nope, that's fine. >> Yeah. Okay. So read the proposed findings. >> Yes. >> Uh page 12 if anybody's following
following along. All right. 3.9.1 uh proposed findings. Number one, the trees proposed to be removed are located within the public rights of way along Pawn Street, School Street, Spring Street, and West Elm Street, and the removal is not anticipated to have an adverse impact on the scenic character of these roadways.
Number two, based on the submitted tree list and aber arborous notes, many of the trees exhibit structural defects, canopy decline, or ash trees affected by emerald ash bore EAB, which has a documented mortality rate of approximately 99%. The removal is
expected to improve public safety and electrical reliability. Number three, the proposed work confirms uh conforms to the provisions of chapter 160 of the Hopington General bylaws and all applicable criteria and standards set forth in section 160-6 have been
satisfied. Proposed conditions. The applicant shall provide photographs of all areas where tree removals occurred. These photographs shall be submitted to the principal planner for review and confirmation that work was completed as approved. The applicant shall provide the principal planner. Number two, the
applicant shall provide the principal planner with a project point of contact and associated contact information prior to commencement of work. This information shall be kept current through written correspondence until all work is complete. Number three, all work shall be coordinated with the tree warden and no
tree removal or pruning shall occur until the tree warden has confirmed that all public shade tree requirements have been satisfied. All right. Um, so if there's no discussion, I would entertain a motion
that the board finds the proposed uh work relative to the submitted scenic road permit application conforms to the provisions of chapter 160 and that all applicable criteria and standards set forth in section 160-6 have been satisfied.
>> Some moved. >> Second. All right, we'll do roll call vote. Uh Parker, >> yes. >> Peter, >> yes. >> Mike, >> yep. >> Lucia, >> yes.
>> Vic, >> yes. >> Omna, >> yes. >> Elise, >> yes. >> And I am a yes. Okay, moving on to approval. I would entertain a motion that the board approve the scenic road permit with the conditions as they were
previously read aloud by the meeting chair. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. Roll call vote. >> Peter, >> yes. >> Parker, >> yes. >> Mike, >> yes. >> Lucia,
>> yes. >> Vic, >> yes. >> Omna, >> yes. >> Elise, >> yes. All right. Well, let's go on to the other hearing and then we'll close the two in order if unless anybody has an objection to that ordering.
>> You didn't move. >> Oh, and I'm also Yes. Okay. Motion passes. Thank you. >> Sorry, I'm at the top of my list of names. Um, thank you, Lucy. All right. Proposed findings for uh Wilson Street Scenic Road
application, Eversource uh Energy. So, proposed findings, uh, the trees proposed for removal and pruning are located within the public right ofway. This is on page 16 along Wilson Street and the removal or pruning is not anticipated to have an adverse impact on the scenic character of the
roadway. Number two, based on the aberist arborist's documentation, many of these trees exhibit hazardous conditions, including rot, decline, overhang into the roadway, or canopy encroachment into primary wires, and the removal or pruning is expected to
improve public safety and electrical reliability. The proposed work, number three, proposed work conforms to the provisions of chapter 160 of the Hopington general bylaws and all applicable criteria and standards set forth in section 166 160-6 have been
satisfied. Uh, no waiverss requested. Um, proposed conditions. Number one, the applicant shall provide photographs of all areas where the tree removals occurred. These photographs shall be submitted to the principal
planner for review and confirmation that work was completed as approved. The applicant shall provide the principal planner with a project point of contact and associated contact information prior to commencement of work. This information shall be kept current through written correspondence until all
work is complete. Number three, all work shall be coordinated with the tree warden and no tree removal or pruning shall occur until the tree warden has confirmed that all public shade tree requirements have been satisfied. Okay.
I would then entertain a motion that the board finds that the proposed work relative to the submitted scenic road permit application conforms to the provisions of chapter 160 and that all applicable criteria and standards set forth in section 160-6 have been satisfied satisfied. This one's for Wilson Street.
>> So moved. >> Second. Okay. And then roll call vote. Peter >> yes. >> Parker, >> yes. Mike, >> yes. Lucia, >> yes. >> Yes.
>> Omna, >> yes. >> Elise, >> yes. >> And I am a yes. All right. Uh, approval of the motion. I would entertain a motion that the board approve the scenic road permit with the conditions as they were previously read aloud by the
meeting chair. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. Roll call vote. Peter. >> Yes. Parker, >> yes. >> Mike, >> yes. >> Lucia, >> yes. >> Vic,
>> yes. >> Yes. >> Ali, >> yes. >> I am a yes. Okay. I would then entertain a motion to close public hearing. Uh, any other anything else that the applicant needs for any of
this before we close? >> Uh, I don't think so. Oh. Um, just make sure that the pruning is included with the removals for Wilson Street. >> Uh, >> I think it was >> trees proposed for removal and pruning was item one of the findings. >> Excellent.
>> Uh, and we're all good on this. >> Yes, we are good on this. Yes, it's mentioned on the findings. >> All right. Yep. F. Okay. So, it sounds like cross set. >> Mhm. Um, so I would entertain a motion
to close the public hearing for uh Pawn Street, School Street, Spring Street, West Elm Street, Scenic Road application. >> Some moved. >> That good. >> And we'll go in roll call vote. Peter, >> yes. >> Parker, >> yes. >> Mike,
>> yes. >> Lucia, >> yes. >> Vick, >> yes. >> Na, >> yes. >> Elise, >> yes. >> And I am a yes. I would then entertain a motion to close the public hearing for Wilson Street Scenic Road application of
resource energy. >> So moved. >> Second. >> And we'll go through a roll call vote. Peter, >> yes. >> Parker, >> yes. >> Mike, >> yes. >> Lucia, >> yes. >> Vic, >> yes. >> Amna,
>> yes. >> Elise, >> yes. >> And I am a yes. All right, that is our agenda. Next meeting is next Monday. Uh remember we've got a sitewalk at 10 a.m. on Saturday.
Who wants to make a motion? >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> All right. Roll call vote. Peter, >> yes. >> Parker, >> yes. >> Mike, >> yes. >> Lia, >> yes. >> Yes.
>> Amna, >> yes. >> Elise, >> yes. And I am a yes. Thank you everyone. Have a good night guys.