It five. >> Yes. >> Need five for a quorum. Awesome. We can start counting heads. There's Matthew. Hi, Ma. Matthew. Hi,
Ron. >> Hey, Ted. Um, I felt like I had something to say to you about a planning board meeting, Matthew, but now it's not coming to me. Something >> something that I wouldn't I said something light, something that I
wouldn't mind going out to the pre-bro airway, but I can't remember now what it was. I don't know. You know, my mom, the loving woman that she is, one of her favorite things was if I said, "Oh, I was going to say something and I forget." She'd say in a very snide way,
"I guess it wasn't that important then, was it?" If it was important, you'd remember. And then I'd say, "Oh, oh yeah, I was going to say I love you, but I forget it. I guess it wasn't that important then." >> Excuse me to the chair. This is Hcam and we are recording, so feel free to start
whenever you're ready. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. You're welcome. >> Now the world knows about my Bobby issues. >> Uh we got to wait a little bit to get our quorum. >> Yes. >> Aner, do you know of anyone who said
they can't make it ahead of time? >> So I just received email from Adam. He's not able to make it. >> Okay. Let me double check my email again if we re I received any.
>> Ted, I did get a couple topics uh from the planning board after the the last meeting. I don't know if you want to for those in email. >> All right. Um I don't mind doing that. Aner, are we allowed to do that if it's not on the agenda? Can we just have kind of a discussion about other topics from
the planning board? >> Yes, we can. We are waiting for members to join so we can discuss that. Well, but can we do it after the you fill us in on where we are with MBTA? >> Yes, I will fill you all in a little bit
about what I found. >> Right. >> Uh I needed to make sure with John, but he's on vacation, but I think I'm going in the correct direction. >> All right. I guess my question is once we hit agenda item three and you get us up to
speed a bit, would it be is it allowed to have Matthew tell us what some other things the planning board would like Zach to look at or is that a problem because it's not on the published agenda >> regarding MBTA? >> No, other discussion items for Zach.
>> I would expect that it it' be okay for me to explain what the topics are, but we wouldn't be able to discuss them. >> Yes, >> that was my guess, too. I just wanted to be before we >> Yes, that is correct. >> You can he can inform us but we cannot discuss that. >> Okay. >> Uh planning board
items for Zach. There I wrote it in and we're up to four Zach members. Aner, did you type up the agenda or is that one of John's last things? >> Well, I did. I didn't. >> I noticed you put minutes first, which I always like to get out of the way first
and John put it last and then I'd say we're gonna switch the order. >> Zach meeting. Zack minutes are pretty easy. >> Pretty easy. >> So, I was like, let's do this first. >> I am. I think in last hearing we table
>> 15 to tonight's meeting. So >> make sure I >> up on another screen here. Do I still have it? Yeah, I do. Okay. All right. Well, we'll just wait a little longer. >> Yeah, we don't have any option. We have
to wait. >> I think the moment number five walks in, we'll get going though, gang. We won't wait to see where six and seven are. Did you guys see what happened on Mount Washington this weekend?
>> I led um I led a group of students on a hiking trip up to the whites, but we on purpose stayed very very low. didn't even go to 3,000 ft and had wonderful weather and trail conditions. And then I got back, if you didn't see, almost two dozen people hiked up Mount Washington
utterly unprepared. Expected there to be a shuttle bus to get them down. There is none. The road is closed already. They ran into two to three inches of snow and single degree water and like Mount Washington winds.
Uh the report said several of them were already hypothermic. Um they got a ride down on the Cog Railway and had to pay the $61 fee, but they really got lucky that the Cog Railway was able to be there to help >> was running.
>> I get very frustrated at those hikers up there. Some funky Zoom noises happening. Are you guys hearing this or is that just me? I think that's happening from my computer. >> Oh, that boom. That noise I heard.
>> Yeah, I think that's from my laptop. Wonder if I should turn this on. Is that better? Maybe that's better. Matthew, I did think the Starbucks parking lot new proposal discussion was interesting. >> Oh, anything specific?
Um, I would just say assumptions the applicant was making about what Concom would or would not accept were, I think, erroneous. Generally, if it is jurisdictional but
already paved and they choose to dig up some paving and then repave on top of it, >> generally speaking, that's not going to concern us. >> I think I've made sufficient comments so far, so I'm uh I mean, we got a big roster. One other
person has got to show up. >> Yes. I'm just going to send a reminder email right now. So, just >> in case someone can join us. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Be a short non-me otherwise.
>> Yeah, it happens from time to time. You know, there's always that I'm I'm in the teacher world and there's always that rumor if your teacher doesn't show up for the first 5 8 10 12 15 minutes is different number at different campuses. You got 10.
And I don't think any school anywhere at any level has ever had that rule, but students are certain it's a rule. Maybe we need to go for exact meetings. >> Classrooms locked. You're not allowed to be in the halls either. I don't know.
Fire hazard to wait in the hall. We can't do this. >> What time is it? >> After 7 after >> almost 8. >> We'll see if Anar's email prompt results in anything. >> I just send
>> Yep. We'll give it a few minutes to work some magic. There are a lot of folks on on our roster that are newish to me and I don't have a sense whether they are people who never miss a meeting or are hit and
miss. I I have no clue. I know Ron is rock solid. I've been serving with Ron for years and that guy's rock solid. My favorite philosopher is Woody Allen and he said, you know, 90% of life is
just showing up. >> It's true. >> I like to think, Ron, that you would say I'm rock solid as far as attendance as well. I think I got a pretty good record. >> Oh, I I was gonna say that. >> And notice I said rock solid as far as
attendance. I'm not going to give myself much credit for much beyond that. >> I feel like we should have onh hold music playing. >> Elevator music. You mean? >> Yeah. Yeah. Elevator music. >> Ken, you've got a lot of instruments.
Just pick one of them up and start playing. >> I got a bunch in the room right now. Just gave him and started playing. >> You got my mandolin right here. >> There you go. >> Somewhere around here. I got my bar. Oh,
here it is. Here's the baritone uke is is tucked away in here. >> No, >> there's a bunch of stuff here in my classroom that's not at home. Mostly because my wife says I don't want this at home anymore and I don't want to get
rid of it. So, it just floods my classroom and I tuck it away back here. All right, I'm going to give I'm actually going to set a stopwatch. I'm going to go two more minutes because that puts us at like 8:12 unless you
guys think I'm not being fair. >> I don't hear anyone. The watch has started. >> Anybody able to attend the haunt out at the YMCA this weekend or previous one? >> Not me. My weekends are solidly booked
um throughout the fall with different school responsibilities. I bet. >> Like I said, I went hiking this weekend with for an overnight. Two weeks ago, I had a different backpacking camping trip to >> Southwest, the very corner of
Massachusetts down there, almost Connecticut. I've got a cross-country meet this weekend, a cross-country meet next weekend, then a trip the next weekend. I got to fit in a Smith College family weekend um along with cross
country next weekend. It just goes on and on and on. >> Crazy. >> And yet here I am. I'm here. >> Rock solid. >> You're rock solid. Yeah, we're at 107.
>> You have quite a busy weekend. >> It's my life is is so jam-packed with stuff. I am not as prepared for this meeting as I wanted to be just because I have too much
teaching and coaching and outdoor eding and trying to still be a husband and a father and all of that stuff. It's just >> it's a lot. >> Yeah, but I'm rolling in dough. I'm a teacher, so you know that I got I make
bank. >> Well, you you get double time and a half when you work past eight hours, right? No, no, I don't. Maybe public school do, not private school teachers. We got nothing. We got no unions. We got no pay. We got nothing. We got We certainly have no um pension after 20 years.
That's not part of my world at all. >> All right, my watch says we hit two minutes. It is, according to my computer, 712. And I say we pull the plug unless anyone wants to really push back.
I'm not seeing anybody push back. All right. I guess maybe before we pull the plug, um, one week from tonight is a planning board meeting, I assume. Is two weeks from tonight for those of us who are here available to give this another try.
>> Should be >> November 10. >> It should be fine for me. And if we kind of try to land on every Matthew, I do feel bad for you because that means your every Monday is booked. But at least in the term while we're trying to get through some material,
>> does that feel doable to you? >> Yeah, it looks like I don't have anything. I mean, also don't have my November's calendar written down completely, but I think that's doable. >> Okay. >> Mondays are definitely the best day given that >> I think generally my Concom and Zach are every other week. Concom is Tuesday
night. So, I think that I'm limiting myself to one meeting a week. Um, all right. So, if all of you guys are up for that, why don't we try to do this again in two weeks and hopefully we'll get a better turnout. >> Okay. >> Do you want to have uh Matthew just tell
us what the planning board was up to or >> Yeah. You want to do that informally and then we'll do a more formal next time? >> Sure. Yeah. So, to be clear, it wasn't a planning board action, but members of the planning board reminding me of things that have come up in the past um if in case there's a distinction there. Um, one thing, let me switch to the
notes so I get it right. Um, sorry, I just went to my calendar. Um, so I think both of these had come up in context of uh the the hop drug rebuild when we were doing that site plan. Um,
one was, uh, that we don't have any definition or rules around what what constitutes a parking garage and what's permissible with this parking garage. It was something that came up during the sitewalk by residents. Um, and so that was something that was raised that maybe
we want to explore. Um, we go more into why that came up um, when we talk about it. Um, >> nothing in any of the parking rights that even uses the word parking garage. Not that I could find is the only thing I can find is the off-site parking um
which doesn't talk about garages per se. >> Okay. >> Um if an area finds anything um I I could I would very well stand corrected but I don't believe there's anything. >> Okay. Um the other thing was um
apparently was it article 6A210 20-2G um the rule about mixed use uh building the exact phrasing is mixed use building comprised of retail space on the first floor. I I think it is very
clear, but apparently I am told town council has said that it's not exactly clear that that has to be the entire first floor's retail and whether we want to reexamine if there's clear uh wording there. Um because
the intent we believe was to mandate that the first floor was retail um and then residential is above that. Um, but it it there was concern that it might be unclear that the first floor could be more than just retail, even though, you know, my non-legal
reading of it doesn't scan that way. >> Um, I'm curious, is that our new town council or old town council that says that? >> I would presume the old one. >> Okay. Um, >> and just a reminder, we cannot discuss this in a detail right now.
>> Okay. Did it did I even that question? Did it edge on it? >> That that is fine. But >> we haven't even opened a meeting yet. >> Yeah. >> And we don't and we don't have a majority. >> Yes. >> But we do have more than two people.
>> Okay. I'm just jotting down notes and hopefully I'll find time. The cross country season will end before our next meeting. So maybe it by two days, but maybe that'll give me a little more time. Um, okay. All right. With that and with us
agreeing that we can do November 10th, I guess we'll say good night. Um, hopefully I'll see all of you guys in two weeks. Plus, >> excellent. >> Stay safe out there. >> All right. >> If you're going hiking, be prepared, please. Before you go,
>> I like the >> Before you go, uh, two points, Ron. I'm gonna talk to John about the ADU, and I was not aware the town website do not include that bylaw right now. Usually, it takes time to include an actual
zoning bylaw, but we can update what town approved on our website for people, which I'm going to work with John how he wants to process that. I will discuss and do that. And >> can I ask a question? Does that mean that our current wording doesn't take into account the the last
town meeting with state changes? >> Okay. >> And the second thing is I'm going to send send materials regarding ADU to everybody the bylaw and it has the letter we received from uh executive
office of housing regarding NBTA. So everybody is aware of that and prepare for our meeting on November 10th. >> That's great. >> Beautiful. >> Be really really helpful. Thank you and >> all right. >> Good night everybody.
>> We don't need a motion to leave. We just got to say good night. >> Good night. >> Good night. >> Good night everybody. >> Good night everybody.