for everybody so all right let's start from the beginning so we're here to talk about the um my name is Matt soop I'm an analyst here with meepa representing EA secretary Rebecca terer we're here to discuss the charleswood elementary school and the Hayden row Street improvements in hopkington the EA number for this project is 16833 so with a brief overview of the meepa process meepa process appes applies to projects that met or exceed meepa thresholds and involv state agency action for this project according to thef there was the creation of five or more Acres of impervious area and the generation of 1,000 or more new ADT on roadways uh roadways providing access to a single location and the construction of 150 or more new parking spaces at a single location there were no agency actions listed in the enf uh local actions were a site plan review with the hopkington planning board which was to be filed June uh this month uh storm water management plan approval with the planning board Conservation Commission also in June uh there was a resource uh area delineation with the Conservation Commission performed last September uh 2023 three and then this will need an order of conditions from the uh Conservation Commission as well and that's a June filing date too as well this year other actions regarding the Hayden Rose Street improvements are storm water management plan approval with the Conservation Commission um that says to be currently filed concurrently with the noi applications in September of 2024 and then a notice of intent order of conditions from the Conservation Commission same date and then state agency financial assistance includes uh financial assistance provided by the Massachusetts school building authority msba Meer requires that state agencies study environmental consequences of their actions and take all feasible measures to avoid minimize and mitigate damage to the environment Meer review is a process providing the mechanism to achieve this meepa is not a permitting process and does not approve or deny projects meepa reviews occurs prior state agency action to ensure agencies evaluate their environmental impact and the process is initiated in this case by the enf sub middle at the end of the process the secretary will issue assert that identifies whether the project complies with be of additional analysis required so the purpose of this visit is for me agency officials and the public to learn about the project get a sense of existing conditions what's proposed potential impacts measures that have been taken to avoid or minimize impacts and mitigation where impacts cannot be avoided um finally in addition to public review There's an opportunity for public comment comments for this project will be accepted on before June 21st 2024 and the certificate will be issued on June 28 2024 so before we get started um if I could call today U we could start with people start stating their name and who they are and who they're representing that would be great we could start with any federal state agencies and then move on to local officials and members of the public and then we'll turn it over to the Consultants to introduce themselves give us the rundown on the project existing conditions proposed conditions mitigation and then if we have questions later on we can do that so without further Ado we can start with uh the roll call uh I guess any order anybody wants to jump in first any federal then we'll go State and then we can just do um locals and then the Consultants I suppose we could get into as well any federal not hearing any state I can go uh hi my name is Brianna wiel I am an environmental analyst with mass D in their Wetlands program oh hello okay anyone else from State okay any local I'm John Graziano I'm from the hopkington elementary school building committee for the charleswood project I'm the chair okay great thanks Tim person I'm the director of facilities for the hopkington public schools next Carol Cavanaugh sorry I'm the superintendent of schools in hopkington I'm Tim chickley I'm the conservation agent in hopkington Susan rck the assistant superintendent finance and operations for hopkington public schools okay anyone else from the local level all right and then next we can go into the Consultants hi Matt I can start us off CLA hogon with LEC environmental Consultants we submitted the expanded enf uh also joining me from LEC is an Martin great and uh we could just go in order of uh vertex next and I'll let them pick who goes after them thanks Claire um I'm Chris Everly we're the owner's project manager um for the vertex companies um for the town of hopkington with me is Jeff Deo and uh Chris Kenny um Chris Kenny is the senior project manager and Jeff too is the vice president great I'll turn it over to Perkins Eastman I'm Dan collie I'm the project manager from Perkins Eastman where the architect uh I believe with me today is Jessica vek who is um working on a project in our office what was the last name Jessica vber how do you spell that v a v r c h e k v a v r c h e k yep okay great thanks I'm Ryan Durk also with Perkins Eastman on the sustainability team thanks Ryan have we got everyone uh Ashley cullan Traverse Landscape Architects I'm the landcape architect on the project okay thanks Ashley H this is uh vode Kik with VHB I'm a transportation Planner on the project and joining me is Greg Russell from our office who's the senior Highway design engineer working on the offsite roadway improvements great thank you okay any else Michelle casman from samot Consultants civil engineers and I'm here with ST power who did you say we're with be Powers no no the company oh Sammy Otis Consultants say that again Samy Otis okay great thanks all right is that everyone not hearing anyone I guess I can turn it over to the Consultants to give their presentation on the project all right thank you Matt I'm going to go ahead and share my screen we prepared a presentation to go through the project can everybody see the screen with the uh project drawing and title and date and everything yes all right great I'm going to move uh along the first slide because because uh we were prepared to go through all the project team members uh we just went through that introduction um I believe folks from the um Elwood School building committee were also introduced through that process so um what we'll do is go through a discussion of the project history to start uh Chris Eberly from vertex is going to um get started on that discussion um once he concludes that part of the presentation I'll discuss the existing conditions and give a project overview um followed by Dan collie and Ryan Dirks from Perkins Eastman to discuss the Building architecture and the sustainable design um and then we will finish the presentation with uh discussion from vude with VHB um to go over the Hayden Rose Street improvements um so with that I'm going to go to the next slide and uh pass things off to Chris Chris just let me know when you want me to move on to the next slide thanks Claire uh the project is a um msba msba sponsored um existing school replacement the existing school um known as the Elmwood School is at the end of life it's a 60-year-old building and as part of being um invited into that program the school did an extensive uh assessment of the existing facilities as well as the existing needs within town in addition to replacing an end of life building the project also serves to address overcrowding that exists in the hopkington school district um currently the building has 627 students and 96 faculty and staff and was designed for significantly less than that as part of the project we studied not only um the building itself but Perkins Easten prepared a systemwide study where they looked at the district as a whole and understood where the pressure was on the existing buildings that existed within the system to understand future expansion that could exist as well as understanding the effects of the solution to this project um and what it would have on um overcrowding in the district at large the result of that was a decision by the school committee to pursue um not just the current second and third grade school but to actually pursue a second third and fourth grade school with the intention of alleviating a significant amount of the existing overcrowding within town by relieving stress on some of the upper schools um by pulling those students down you want to go to the next slide as an msba project we had to follow their feasibility study which included multiple stages at both What's called the PDP ESR and SD phases of the feasibility study the PDP is really where we figured out um places that were available to put the building as well as um understanding what needs to go in the building the PSR was really to refine those down to a select few sites and options and the SD was to examine at the selected site what that building would actually look like so as part of this we looked at 44 sites within Town through the entirety of the town of hopkington you can see the gray Dots here looked at all neighborhoods that um had Parcels that could support the school ultimately through an extensive PO process we ended up with two main sites and that was to build at the existing location of the Elmwood School and also to look at some existing town-owned land adjacent to the marathon school that exists on that land on the parcel that was chosen currently that included assessments of the existing facilities understanding the growth a study of educational visioning a study of the educational programming as well as what Parcels would actually be viable including looking at some of the um realities of those Parcels as well as understanding how they were affected um in multiple ways and the purchase of those Parcels as most of the parcels were privately owned and so the asbc would have to pursue um ownership of those Parcels to consider them throughout this we had some extensive public input um through multiple sessions if you go to the next slide you can see here each of those green dots represents a community Forum or actually each of those Stars represents Community Forum that was held throughout the process we began this process in April of 2022 and continued the feasibility study through November of last year as part of that study at each of the stages we had multiple Community forums including Community forums that were advertised to all residents of hackington speaking before the select board speaking before other Town committees um so that we could get the word out and ultimately the funding approval of the project was a townwide town meeting discussion uh as hopkington is a open town meeting and a ballot initiative where the town meeting passed it by 72% the ballot initiative passed by 61% in the lead up to town meeting we did have an information session in the Legacy Farms area which is within the environmental justice Community um as well as having a meeting with um the environmental justice Community just this past March um both of those were both of those and all of our public meetings were recorded by Hamp uh the local public television um studio and they're also recording this meeting to make it available to the public in the town of hopkington those recordings remain available on YouTube and have been viewed um since all of the all of those have been viewed since the meeting occurred uh we're currently just beyond the design development stage and we're going to begin local permitting with submissions going in in June as was mentioned to begin that local permitting process in July and we expect that combined with the site for the building project excuse me for the building project itself as well as the roadway improvements um we expect that permanent process to last from July until September um upon completion of the design and bidding docks in the spring of next year or um late winter um we will bid the project once the meepa um permanent process concludes with a start of construction in July of 2025 and the current intention is to open the building for students in January Ry of 2028 if you go on to the next slide as part of the feasibility study process we did look at alternates um all of the discussion occurred in publicly advertised and noticed meetings or publicly noticed meetings um not all were advertised um and were open to the public the esbc established a criteria of various items that were important to the town um for making the decision and ultimately the two sites that were chosen had multiple schemes developed both from a base code repair an addition in renovation new buildings to replace the existing buildings on the existing site as well as new buildings that would be moved into on the new site um and the various ratings through two public meetings were ranked by the committee and verified and voted on um to come to the decision overwhelmingly traffic was the largest issue that was cited by the community um as part of this process and it was equally um troubling at the existing Elmwood site as well but the positives of the Elmwood site far outweighed or of the proposed site far outweigh the original Elmwood site including challenges fitting all three grades into a much smaller site given the 1200 students that would be taught by the project additionally as part of this we had um multiple opportunities for both local and visiting um audiences to make comments we did this both at the forums that were held last year as well as in the EJ form we put out a survey um which was included on a mailer that was sent to everyone within the EJ community and of the survey on that mailer we receiv received 17 responses that were largely positive the main negatives that were cited were related to cost or traffic which um at we've discussed with the community an extensive Amo next slide I think that gets over to uh my discussion do you have anything else to add Chris before nope I think um this that that sums up the the public interaction we've had great um so just to go over for the existing site conditions uh the the property that the project area landed on is uh comprised of seven Parcels commonly owned by the town of Hopkinton uh just east of Hayden Rose Street here we have Marathon Elementary School within the northern portion of the site with an existing driveway entrance about 35 ft wide um coming off of Hayden Rose Street here the remainder of the site is largely undeveloped uh with forested Uplands there is a bordering vegetated Wetland just south of the driveway entrance and a few isolated vegetated Wetlands um along the property boundaries uh that were all uh the boundaries of those resource areas were approved through the oad that was issued by the Conservation Commission in September of last year uh in this little portion of the site an existing single family dwelling that is currently unoccupied um is located here that will be demolished to um accommodate a secondary site entrance that will be shown on some further slides uh the project area also includes the Hayden Rose Street improvements that measures about uh 1,500 linear feet um there is a bordering vegetated Wetland to the north of the driveway here as well and an intermittent stream flows from from that Wetland uh through Culvert underneath Hayden Rose Street those particular resource areas were not included in the oads so um we will be asking for Conservation Commission to be reviewing those when we submit our notice of intent for the Hayden rast Street improvements as well um I believe Matt from meepa went through this uh very well early on in this presentation before we got started but just to reiterate um the project is subject to meepa review because it is um receiving financial assistance provided by the msba and that is our form of state agency action um the project itself also exceeds uh two thresholds for an enf um however no thresholds for a mandatory eir were exceeded um the requirement for an e is brought upon the project by uh being located within a one mile radius of um a designated minority environmental justice Community um there are no language thresholds that are located within our one mile radius and within the expanded enf sub midle um LEC performed an assessment of all potential sources of pollution and Public Health health related impacts um that the project May bear on the environmental justice Community we identified that the one mile designated geographic area does not meet any of the vulnerable Health criteria um and concluded that the project is unlikely to Bear any unfair or inequitable uh environmental burden or related Public Health consequences to that environmental justice Community now a brief overview the project itself um the proponent is proposing to uh construct charleswood Elementary School the building here measuring uh 175,000 grow square feet it'll be three stories tall um and I believe Chris brought this up earlier the school will be serving grades 2 through four uh grades 2 through three will be coming directly from the existing Elmwood Elementary School and grade four will be transferred over from uh Hopkins Elementary School which is located across the street just up the road a bit the entrance to the new school will be utilizing the existing driveway entrance into Marathon Elementary that'll be our primary entrance coming in um from the northern portion of this site meeting at this rotary where a secondary entrance is also going to be provided um to that portion of the parcel um with Frontage to Hayden r street where the existing uh unoccupied single family dwelling is the driveway will then continue East and uh provides a loop around the school building itself and also provides access to 199 paved parking spaces um additionally there's parking provided an overflow parking area with um pervious surface so uh to allow for infil ation and reduce the amount of impervious proposed with the site we have uh 60 parking spaces provided here as well um so in total 259 new parking spaces with the project we have an athletic field um that'll provide space for students to uh enjoy PE class during school and then surrounding the building is a um robust planting plan to revegetate areas that are not impervious ass associated with the project to the rear we have another recess area and plenty of play space for students basketball courts playgrounds um seating areas that are um ADA Compliant and um I believe that really covers it for the school itself the Hayden R Street improvements uh just shown here very graphically from the uh plan sheet cover is about one 1,535 linear feet of work um I'm going to go into more detail of the school itself um for the next few slides and at the very end uh vude from VHB will discuss the Hayden R Street improvements in a bit more detail so the project uh the charleswood project area will result in approximately 18 acres of land disturbance following the installation of erosion and sedimentation controls along the limit of work uh those will be comprised of either coir logs compost socks and or silt fencing or a combination thereof um that will essentially uh demarcate the limit of work so construction does not go beyond that limit of work it'll also uh ensure the protection of downg gradient resource areas the project does not involve any direct impacts to bordering vegetated Wetlands or isolated vegetated wetlands um however the work is proposed within the buffer zone to those resource areas so we want to ensure the protection of them uh during construction um I believe Matt touched on the local approvals that we'll need um site plan review with planning board and um an order of conditions from the Conservation Commission the project will also uh require a nip permit which requires a storm water pollution prevention plan or a Swip that will be um followed and implemented during construction again to ensure the protection of the site and uh minimize any potential erosion or sedimentation issues um we'll have construction entrance entrances installed uh Crush crushed stone at each of these entrances and temporary sediment basins and diversion swes will be excavated uh throughout the site to ensure protection um and treat storm water during construction utilities uh including sewer water electrical and Telecommunications will all be installed uh subsurface below the secondary site entrance they will all connect to existing utilities within Hayden row Street here uh and then finally on this plan sheet a retaining wall is proposed along the southern uh driveway loop around the school and that's in an effort to min the amount of grading um that is closer to the Southern Property boundary Samy od's Consultants put together the storm water management system they designed this and uh prepared a storm water report that accompanied our expanded enf filing um they preferred a series of test Pits on site to evaluate the seasonal High groundwater table and to support this design and ultimately the storm water design includes um a series of best management practices or bmps consisting of deep sump catch basins and water quality units which will be located throughout all of the vehicular um impervious areas that storm water will all be directed towards four subsurface infiltration systems and three subsurface detention systems the building itself uh 2third of it will be uh the roof runoff will be discharged into the subsurface infiltration system number four in the bottom right of this image uh the remaining onethird of building roof runoff will discharge directly into the detention Basin that's shown with the yellow um label in the very right of the image that's just to the rear of the building um additional bmps include a bio retention cell or the rain Garden that's shown with the purple uh label to it just south of the building it'll also serve as a nice um educational component for students um in addition to vegetated filter strips and grass channels throughout other portions of the site um we also have geothermal Wells proposed to the very rear of the building that'll connect with the building and provide a heating cooling system that is a part of um the sustainable design that Perman will be going through shortly uh lastly the storm water report that Sam od's prepared uh it not only documents compliance with mtep storm water management standards um it also documents compliance with local standards which are more strict with regard to um I believe phosphorus and TSS removal um so the storm water management system has been designed um to mitigate any of that um potential water quality issues that we that might come up with the post construction storm water management uh Traverse Landscape Architects put together a very robust planting plan uh to revegetate portions of the site um that are not uh comprised of impervious pavement or the building itself um large trees um small trees shrubs and plenty of native flowering perennials will be proposed around parking areas play areas and walkways um and any temporary temporarily Disturbed areas beyond that Landscaping plan will be revegetated with a native seed mix as well so as part of our analysis uh for this filing the project team um took a look at the climate change adaptation and the ways the project can mitigate for any um potential adverse impacts associated with that Samy Odis uh prepared or ran this rat tool report and we received the ratings in the top right of this image through that report for various components of the project um notably all portions of the project um had an output of high risk for extreme precipitation of urban flooding and extreme heat so the ways that the project is mitigating for those uh potential risks uh with regard to flooding um again samot has put together a very thorough storm water management plan um storm water management system for the site um that meets all state and local standards um and in regard to extreme heat the project also includes like the previous slide indicated a very robust planting plan um the proposed School itself is has been designed to uh meet passive house certification um and sustainable design uh which will address some of the heat index issues um within the building itself um again geothermal Wells proposed behind the school um to have a very efficient cooling and heating system within the building um and through uh proposing the Overflow parking spaces with permeable surface um so project team has designed the project to minimize the amount of paved areas um as best we can um and reducing the heat island effect as a result um I believe that's the end of my portion of the slides I'm going to pass things off to uh Perkins Eastman to discuss the building and sustainable design sure we'll just uh talk a little bit about the architecture of the building and I'll hand it over to Ryan to talk about the sustainable aspects um the building as you see in front of you this is from the Hayden row side um with the classroom Wings coming out the back the front spine um as you will is the public areas with the gym on the left side the administration and library in the Center core and then the cafeteria in the that side there on the right um the idea being that all the public spaces that are used that could be used or accessed by the public will be in that front and there'll be the ability to close off the classroom Wings in the back um the three Wings in the back are three story and they are three story for a reason there's three Wings three stories and there are three grades so the idea here is to be able to leave the flexibility to the district um to at any point in time decide that the building can be organized by grade by Wing or by grade by floor um so each one of those is kind of a carbon copy that allows that flexibility so that it will be able to grow and change with the uh with the district as there as we had mentioned earlier there is um growth in this community and they are always interested in flexibility the maximum amount of flexibility and that is what we're trying to provide here um from an aesthetic stand point the building is primarily a masonry building um that's really where and with a punched do with punched openings and there's um the idea here is for it to to be a long lasting materials that'll be low maintenance and will um stand the test of time and not need to be uh maintained by the by the community so I'll turn it over to Ryan to talk a little bit about the sustainability aspects or the passive house design that we are looking to achieve here thanks Dan so the building will be utilizing many of the best practices uh that we have available to us and the design Community today and we'll be performing it as as a very sustainable High forence building uh starting off we are pursuing Mass Save path one rebate program um that means the eui or energy use intensity will be less than 25 which is a really a good level of performance we are voluntary voluntarily pursuing the opt-in specialized energy code um like we said under the passive house pathway and for those of you that may not be familiar passive house is I would say is the leading standard in the design industry today for delivering actual Energy savings and operating buildings and and therefore reduce carbon emissions so as part of this we've already reached out to fius which is the certifying body for Passive house we've done the feasibility study and then are on track for design certification um under the PF system and I'd be happy to go into that in more detail if anyone has questions to the next slide some of the design features we use will help us achieve the high energy performance and also really good comfort for all the students and staff so this starts with the passive design features like just the way the building the architecture is designed starting with the envelope of the building we have um good amounts of insulation and making sure we're not having any thermal bridges that are kind of causing cold spots we've primarily oriented the classrooms to face North and South as Dan showed which means that they get better quality daylight helps reduce the electric lighting use and just make sure that they they have a really good classroom environment we are using triple pane glass um and then also sunshad to again kind of control those thermal gains um and then finally we're going to have really robust air sealing as part of that passive house system to make sure there's no leaks and and cold spots uh in the building as well and finally the active systems of the building will ensure that we have really good performance um and also low energy bills so that starts as Claire mentioned with the ground Source heat pump system which is going to reduce uh significantly the amount of energy used for heating and cooling we also will have efficient lighting and then we'll be evaluating uh the installation of PV panels through through a PPA agreement as soon as the building is done and so all these things will help save energy um and improve the comfort of the building we're also making sure that we have really good materials selected um so we're going to have also air quality that's going to exceed expectations and and be a really healthy and and welcoming environment for all the students and staff and that's that's it for me thanks Ryan uh so that sort of concludes the portion of the discussion on the school um I'm going to pass it off to vude for the final slide to talk further about the Hayden R Street improvements portion of the project thanks Claire um so as Chris mentioned early on traffic uh was one of those key areas of uh interest for for a lot of residents and people that that were involved in in tracking the project following the the evolution of this overall uh project and the site selection the whole process actually is underpinned by uh considerations related to Traffic and parking and circulation safety and those kinds of features um so back in July of last year we went through a very comprehensive Transportation study uh and that focused not only just on the school the new school building then the site access that provides access to the building but but at the school building committee's request we've we expanded the scope of the the study to to cover a very big section of uh uh Hayden row Street uh essentially because the the corridor has four other existing schools Middle School High School uh in two elementary schools uh and then this this new uh building creat uh uh 2 three and four would be the fifth school on the corridor so there was definitely a lot of interest to make sure that we look at uh Transportation traffic operations very closely and make sure that we come up with a set of solutions that not only address the impacts of the project but hopefully through some of the solutions take care of some of the deficiencies that are out there under current conditions um there is no uh Mass de jurisdiction on this project the site does not have bet State Highway uh there is no Mass do access permit that we need for this project the the improvements roadway improvements as well as the school building obviously would uh all of the reviews are are local uh Town Town reviews only uh so again through the process that we went through the year plus uh leading up to the uh town meeting vote in November uh we devel uh a comprehensive set of Transportation Improvement strategies uh that can work within the existing RightWay of Hayden row Street the red lines that you see on the on this graphic here that represents the right of way lines uh for the roadway the the uh horizontal L gu left to right North being to the left of this graphic and some of the key elements uh of this plan uh that actually helped develop and drive the solution was the fact that we actually have another existing School the marathon school on the property so rather than create a major access for this new school on Hayden rad Street uh what we ended up doing is is creating internal cross connections between the existing Marathon school and the new school uh through the property on site uh and then just have a secondary access drive for the new school and which is shown on the on the right side of this graphic so the new driveway that will be constructed for this development for this school project is is going to be a secondary AIS or or a minor axis and the major access would actually be the existing driveway for for the marathon school that that you see on the yeah where where the dot is pointing to right now and uh we are proposing that that intersection be signalized it was a traffic signal that was considered at that intersection several years years ago when the marathon school was uh was proposed but back then the the traffic numbers and and the justification needed for signalization was not there just with one school but with now with with the second school that would go on the same property and the consolidation of of grades moving of grade four from Hopkins school uh to to the new school we are able to have enough uh critical mass if you would in terms of traffic flow inter at the site to be able to justify uh more robust uh traffic control improvements underpin by a new traffic signal at that intersection of marathon School driveway with Hayden row Street uh and one of the key benefits of this in addition to accommodating the Turning traffic into and out of both schools at that signal is that it creates a fully protected pedestrian crosswalk across Hayden r street with push button actuation to to the existing uh locations where you could do that with the push button actuated traffic signal is uh several 100 ft to the north uh at the Grove Street intersection and several hundred feet to the south at Chestnut Street so there isn't really under existing conditions a location where traffic can be fully stopped to allow pedestrians to cross and this solution actually brings uh that ability to to be able to cross pedestrians safely at any time of the day across Hayden r Street uh also shown on this plan is a widening of Hayden row street again within the existing RightWay of of the roadway along the easterly edge uh so that's that that's where the the Red Dot is the roadway would be widened by about a lane width to be able to create the Turning lanes and the the Q stacking capacities that are needed for both schools uh and you know and it was based on again the the detail Transportation study that was prepared in accordance with mass Do's guidelines for traffic impact assessment so even though Mass doot did not have a jurisdiction we made sure that we followed their guidelines for preparing the study and the improvements that resulted from that analysis uh shows that we are able to better accommodate traffic flow for both schools with these improvements uh then if you were to leave everything as is and have the traffic use the existing access for for Marathon School uh traffic flow today cannot be fully accommodated the turn lenss often get pluged and spillovers happen uh when buses stack up in the turn lanes because inadequate storage lens and we're hoping to address a lot of those types of issues with with the solutions that you see here uh and as Claire mentioned there is a wetland resource area in the uh northeasterly corner of of the roadway Improvement limits so we will be going through the Conservation Commission along with uh the on-site uh Conservation Commission review to make sure that uh all aspects of of storm water management associated with the roadway improvements are are handled and reviewed and addressed appropriately as required by the applicable guidelines again these improvements span a total of about a little over, 1500 uh linear feet of roadway on on Hayden R Street and everything is subject to the town of hopkinton's review and jurisdiction that's that's all I had thank you thank you vude um that concludes our presentation um we appreciate the opportunity to go through this and all individual team members are present so if there are any um direct questions for more detailed information we we have the team here so we're happy to answer any questions great thanks very much uh let's start with any questions from the town uh okay any questions from any state agencies hi this is Brian here from Mass C Wetlands just want to confirm that there is no Riverfront area jurisdictional under the wetlands protection act um because the remote consultation email that went out mentions um approximately 14,622 square feet of Riverfront area replication there thank you for that question so there is no Riverfront area associated with the site um the stream that flows uh underneath Hayden row street is an intermittent stream it's not mapped on USGS uh topographic maps and we ran stream stats to confirm the drainage area um so we we did internally confirmed that that's intermittent I believe the riverfront area um mitigation description in the uh notice was not actually associated with this project so um we do not have that as a part of this project okay thank you okay great any other questions from any state agencies uh I just have one question on trees could is there approximate acreage of tree clearing was that mentioned in the um EF anywhere I don't believe that was specifically called out in the enf um and I appreciate the question on that we got the calculations for um I think it's about eight approximately 18 acres for tree clearing um I have specific square feet if you would prefer that number uh no 18 acres is good okay and then to mitigate that there was the tree planting plan was that can you sort of break that down a little bit more on how that was developed yeah I can speak to that if you like if you want just G to ask you to um yes so we understand there is quite a bit of clearing so we have tried to minimize clearing right to the limit of disturbance being cognizant of neighbors and maintaining as much existing vegetation as possible but um CLA if you don't mind pulling up that planting plan you'll also note there we're revegetating all the roadways with Street trees uh all the parking lots are receiving shade trees in them um also perimeter areas both for ab Butters and habitat we're revegetating with combinations of shade trees evergreen trees um and this will also be associated with some of the Hayden row improvements and the entry drives um and then we do have some robust outdoor classrooms in the rear which will be fully planted with trees playground area um planted with trees around the entire perimeter for both shade and habitat and I think another good strategy we're using is because we already have lawn spaces in the forms of some flexible field space that are being used for PE and recess um all the spaces in between we're actually planting with restoration seed mixes which will be wild flower plantings again usable for Habitat um they'll be unmowed really unmaintained so we think this will be a great tie in for the school's program but then also um a nicer segue than just maintain Lawns for the perimeter of the site um and then another strategy we used was trying to reduce the amount of parking the required parking was 260 spaces on the site that felt excessive for this type of school so we're proposing overflow parking that will be um a reinforced Turf parking area so that be as lawn space as well and again that will help mitigate any sort of heat island effect um and then you can also see in here some of the um actual tree callouts look a little bit small but they are all fairly large sheade Tre that line those entire roadways um throughout the entire site so when you say large do you mean when they're planted they're going to be large or yeah we will actually start them fairly substant at like a two and a half three inch caliper size to begin with for some of the shade trees like the maples Oaks that sort of thing the ornamentals will probably go in a little bit smaller uh probably like a 2in caliper great thank you very much um I don't have any further questions at this time if anyone else has any questions feel free to jump in uh Yep this is Kim CH mcky so I was just wondering um for the team the improvements to hay and row do those involve direct uh impacts to bvw or just the offers on um all all of the roadway improvements are uh uh yeah there will be no direct impacts to the Wetland resources the work will all will be within the buffer zone area okay perfect thank you so much thanks perfect great well if I could get a copy of the presentation at some point that would be great um like I said I don't have any more questions for now but if there's anything more I'll reach out before uh when I'm drafting up the certificate um just a reminder to submit comments in writing to me at Matthew matat t.j.s soop mass.gov or you can use the meepa portal which can be found by searching for meepa portal on the mgov website comments are due onor beforee June 21st thank you everyone appreciate your time you so much thank you thank you thank you take care thank you have a great afternoon you too e