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So, it's 7:00 and I'm going to kick off this adventure tonight. So, as a preliminary matter, my name is Pete Pekos. I'm the vice chair for the Newbury Planning Board and I'm going to be pinch hitting and guiding this conversation in absence of Woody Knight. So, let's just confirm that all the

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members here and persons anticipated on the agenda are present and can attend. Planning Board members, name is called please respond in the affirmative. Larry Murphy. >> Here. >> Scott Kinter. >> Yes. >> Steve Mansion. >> Here. >> All right. Town staff, Kristen Grubbs,

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planning director. >> Yes, here. >> Ready City Woodward, assistant planner. >> Here. >> All right. I'm going to read Woody's opening statement. Good evening. The June 3rd, 2026 opening meeting of the Newbury Planning Board is being conducted remotely consistent with

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chapter two of the acts of 2025, which extends the governor's March 12, 2020 orders suspending certain provisions of the open meeting general law chapter 38 until June 30th, 2027. For this meeting, the Newbury Planning

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Board is convening by video conference via Zoom as posted on the Planning Board's agenda, which can be found on the town's website. You may join us by going to http://zoom.us and entering the meeting ID number 83271413056.

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Passcode 108790 or by calling 19292056099 US and entering the meeting ID number and the passcode when prompted. Please note that this meeting is being recorded and that attendees are participating by

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video and or telephone conference. The meeting is also being broadcast live through local access cable channel 9 on Zoom and the Newbury TV Wix site.com {backslash} TNCTV. And the meeting will be recorded and

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available on the Newbury Access YouTube channel. So, meeting business ground rules. Before we turn to the first item on the agenda, permit me to cover some ground rules for the effective and clear conduct of our business and to ensure accurate minutes. I will introduce the each speaker on the

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agenda. After speakers conclude their remarks, I'll go down the list of board members inviting each by name to provide a comment questions or motions. For all attendees, please remember to mute your audio when you're not speaking on Zoom, use the mute button. On your phone, use the star six to toggle to mute and or

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unmute. There will be an opportunity for public comment and questions during the public hearings. I'll see questions and comments from members of the public through the raise Zoom function. For video conference participants, to raise your hand, hover over the bottom of the Zoom window below the photo gallery and click on the image of the

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hand that appears. Please ensure that your name is fully and correctly displayed on the participant list. First name and last name. Telephone participants, to raise your hand on the Zoom world, hit star nine on your phone keypad. Each participant will be called upon to provide his or her name and

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address and may ask their questions or make a comment. Please do your best to keep your comments to three minutes or less. Your hand will be lowered when you're given the floor for your questions. I'll afford the applicant or the representatives the opportunity to reply should there be any written submittal questions concerned, they will be noted for the record. The applicant

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will be afforded the opportunity to speak if issues raised have not been addressed. Finally, each vote taken in this meeting will be conducted by roll call. All righty. 7:04 7:05. Meeting minutes. Um, Has everyone had an opportunity to

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review the minutes? Any comments or corrections? Larry? >> Just say to you if you're >> me, I'm going to be a little picky here. Um but on the planner's report, Salisbury is misspelled, I think, in the fifth sentence.

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But fall and following in that sentence and the and the sentence after that, the letters U M just appear. Were you intending to insert some information there or not quite sure what what to make of that. >> That's a funny typo. I don't I I don't remember off the top of my head, but it

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might have it was probably just a typo. >> And it looks like that to me, but with those comments that I had I mean, substance was fine. >> Sounds good. >> Great. Thanks, Larry. Anybody else? >> I have one comment under the uh participants. If you could just put my

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name in there cuz I'm just on the list for that meeting. It'll be easy. Cuz I made some motions and stuff. Okay. Um we can slide into liaison and meetings. Uh Larry, anything from ZBA? >> Well, um quite do do you want a motion to approve the minutes?

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>> Oh, yes. Thank you so much, Larry. Yeah, I'd entertain a motion to approve the minutes as amended. Larry, thank you for that motion. Great. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you. Uh any discussion? Uh seeing none, a roll call vote. Larry? >> Uh yes.

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>> Thank you. Steve? >> Yes. >> Thank you. Scott? >> Yes. >> All right. And I would vote yes as well. Thank you for directing me, Larry. It's always great. Okay. Uh so now let's slide into our our our liaison reports. Larry, ZBA?

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>> Uh thank you, Pete. The ZBA is meeting on the 18th, a regular monthly meeting. Uh they have uh a new public hearing for 129 Northern Boulevard. It's a special permit to renovate for renovations to increase footprint and height of an existing

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dwelling. And also a continued public hearing for 15 Sunset Drive, which is a special permit to demolish and rebuild a single family home with an increase in footprint and height. There may be other matters, too. It's a little early to to know, but

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at least those two public hearings I should be on the agenda. >> All right. Any questions for Larry, anyone? Okay, Larry, thanks very much. Conservation will have to hold until next time as Woody's not here. MVP C, Kristen.

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>> I just was having a look back at the agenda because I have to remind myself. So, the commissioners met on May, late May, and

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and there were departmental updates. Um, >> [snorts] >> they're making a bunch of progress. I'll just highlight a couple things that were of interest to me. Each department director goes through updates for their program and it's the end of the fiscal year, so

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there's a fair amount of accounting approvals of different bills to pay and that kind of thing. But, um, the um, ferry boat project is moving along. I think they are about to complete the

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business plan, the outreach plan for starting the ferry that runs up the Merrimack River. It's a I think I've shared before, but it's a solar energized ferry. It's intended to be both for potentially commuter traffic,

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but also um, tourist activity. You can bring your bike on the ferry, that kind of thing. So, they're working with the towns that have docks, Haverhill, [snorts] Amesbury, and Newburyport to start with, but there's sort of a visioning project

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related to other stops down the road, so kind [snorts] of interesting. um, I'll keep you posted on I'm not sure when that is actually intended. The The actual ferry is under construction. So, I'm not sure if it will be, um, sort of starting any, uh,

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um, uh, sort of >> [clears throat] >> uh, a a a small a short start, a quiet start may start this summer, but I don't think it'll be till next summer that, um, the boats will actually be running.

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So, interesting, I'll keep you posted. Um, we also, uh, talked a little bit about, um, different community, uh, one-stop grants that MVPC is applying for related to the commission, uh, to the region,

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um, supporting technical assistance for different towns. So, Newbury actually signed on to a project that is looking to get, um, some placemaking and art, um, sort of arts and culture planning for

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different communities. So, um, Sadie [snorts] and I met with the community economic planning staff and they are and the arts, um, planner and we are, um, if this grant is funded, it would be for fiscal year 28, so not this

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next year, but the following year, kind of looking overall at the town of Newbury and our different neighborhoods, looking at our master planning document related to cultural and historical, um, and sort of, uh, economic development

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goals that are in the master plan and seeing how we can, um, identify areas where public art, um, can help sort of activate public spaces. So, properties that the town owns or public spaces like trails, like the

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Board of Boston Trail, for instance, if there ways, similar to the Clipper City Rail Trail, where art can sort of attract a different kind of use, um, in uh, related to the recreational use, but bringing arts and culture and the

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history of Newbury into public spaces. So, it's a little vague, the sort of project description. There will be more specificity if and when that project is funded. Um, I'll definitely keep you all posted. So, those are a couple highlights of the

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commissioner's meeting. >> That's great. You know, what is actually very important, I think, that we keep on our agenda the master plan and every now and again touch base with that, uh, so it just doesn't become that, you know, document on the shelf that it is continues to be an active living

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document. So, I think touching that every now and again is very, very important. Okay. Um, so that's the planner's report. What else do we have on our agenda for now? Is there anything that we can we want to we can we want to slide into

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new business? We have 5 minutes. >> Sure. >> I think I've some other planners updates if we want to. >> some more? Okay. >> Yeah. Um, I was um,

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I was on a I think it was the planners meeting, the MVPC, um, regional planners meeting in the, um, transportation department was talking about, um, a demo project they're doing in Lawrence, um, on the intersection of Lowell and Margin

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streets in Lawrence. I'm not sure if you all know where that is, but, um, I'm not very familiar with Lawrence, but it was, um, this really, really wide intersection, um, and they had started doing painting some,

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uh, like bump outs, um, on either side of the intersection and, um, there was a entrance to the intersection that was probably like 50 or 60 ft wide, like absurdly wide. So, they're uh, um

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cutting it down and making one of the sides like a pedestrian kind of walkway. Um and they were asking for volunteers, so I volunteered to paint the road, which was kind of fun. Um they're painting it this really nice blue color. I could

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probably pull up a picture um if I can find it quickly, but um we were we had long rollers on sticks. Um >> Can I see your Can I see your hands? Are you getting paint on them? >> [laughter] >> I did have blisters. I had a blister on

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my hand that's been bothering me and I'm like, "Okay." I like I like it. It's It was a lot of fun. Um here. I think I will be able to find it. Um >> And it was at night. I don't know if Sadie mentioned that.

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>> They she went out at late at night. >> Yeah, they started at like 8:00 p.m. So, that's the big It was this huge area. So, you can kind of see I don't know if if you can see it well. I don't know if I can zoom in on this, but Oh, there we go. Um like that is what is the road now. You

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can You can kind of see the yellow line kind of in the middle there or it was like So, there's going to be an entrance or an exit right here and an entrance right here and then this is all pedestrian space now, which is kind of awesome, I think. And then over here you

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can kind of see the work that they've done already and there's crosswalks there. And they did some over here as well. Um but it was a lot of painting, that's for sure. Um but yeah, that's my update. So, I

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think they're almost done with their project, so. >> Very cool. >> Well, thanks for volunteering. >> Yeah, it was definitely fun, good experience. >> I actually have a little painting at my house if you'd like to volunteer. >> Is it planning related?

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>> Uh same color. >> [laughter] >> Uh no, on a serious note, seriously, that volunteering is it's uh it's it's it's time, you know, and uh especially at night. So, thanks for that. >> Yeah, of course.

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Saydi got to borrow the um yellow, you know, reflector um >> The inspector's >> and jackets from the DPW department. So, there was some joking around here that DPW is going to steal Saydi away from planning, but we're not going to let her.

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We're not going to let her go. >> [snorts] >> We just want to partner on cool projects like that, so it was pretty interesting. >> It'll be interesting to see how uh folks adjust to to the change in traffic patterns and if they pay attention to

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what they need to pay attention to now. That's great. Yeah. >> Definitely. >> All righty, so we have probably a minute. So, we can just hold on for a minute for our public hearing, which will start uh at uh 7:15.

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So, just give ourselves a little breather. Okay, how's that for a breather? Uh >> [laughter] >> so, it's now 7:15 and uh we're going to have a continuance of our public hearing on the definitive subdivision application for 15 Central Street, which

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is Assessors Map U-11 Lot 53 for a two-lot uh subdivision. The applicant owner, uh Michael Becker, uh 15 uh Central Street Byfield LLC. Um Mike, uh you're here and would you like to give us an update on

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where the project is? Or Billy or Carissa? Um >> Hi, everyone. >> I'm sorry. >> Okay. Who would like to go first? >> I guess I would. >> All right. >> Uh Paul Finocchio, PJ Associates.

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>> Thank you, Paul. >> Uh I did the surveying out on the site. Uh just so let you know, Jack Sullivan, the engineer, will not be joining us this evening. He has another Zoom meeting in Lexington. So, if I could, I'd like to share the screen and go over the plans

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and modifications that were done. >> Go ahead. >> I think Kristen, are you able to make him co-host? >> I know. I Yeah, I was Hang on. I am not able to. So, let me I might reclaim host from

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>> I I reclaimed host and I made him co-host. I think you have to be host to do that, so. >> Yeah, but Cable TV was host, now we're reclaimed. >> Okay. I think I have the um plans on the screen. >> You do. >> Okay. Um this is our sheet one, which

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there's no been changes. Basically, it's the um locus plan, which shows the property, which is in in in black, and the surrounding areas. Uh if I can go to the sheet two, again,

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up there Here we go. This is the existing additions plan. There's been no modifications to this plan. Um then I go to um All right. Sheet three, which is the by right plan, showing them create two lots, bringing

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in the the roadway and the cul-de-sac. And sheet four is basically rather Sheet four is the lotting plan showing the proposed roadway layout and the creation of the two lots. Sheet five is basically where all the modifications have been.

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If I can zoom in, probably down at the bottom of the the Hold on one second, please. Sorry, hold on a second. I'm just having trouble getting the page on the screen. This report. Get down to the bottom. Okay, so some of the um changes we have

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made is starting out on Central Street. We have re- extended the pavement area onto Church Street to um slow traffic coming in. So, traffic will have to come in, slow down, and then turn into the site. And then if they're coming into our site, they're going to enter this

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this way into the site. Or if they're just going down the street, they can come down this way. Um one of the things we had talked about was the entranceway radius. We asked for a waiver. Um the fire chief wanted a 34-ft wide radius on the pavement area.

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So, that's along this side. And then on this side, we have a uh a 95-ft wide pavement radius coming in uh on the street. The street is 139 basically 139 ft long to the end.

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Um we did add in the new footprint of the duplex uh with the the sheer driveway coming in this way and then coming down along the side and entering the garage here. We modified the location of the water service, which now comes in off of

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Church Street running down along the side of the roadway behind the parking area and then looping around and coming into the duplex. And then there'll be a service coming in off of here servicing the house. Um another change we had made was we

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talked about um landscaping plants, plants uh transplanting plants from on site. There are several plants and trees out in front of the entranceway, which will be taken out. And there's also some in the roadway and we're looking at planting those up along this area in

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here. Um so that'll cut down any light or so forth from the abutters off to the left. Um another change we added was uh the top of wall along the parking area.

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And also in the drainage area, we added in a forebay and we also changed the depth of material to 24 in. And I believe those were some of the major changes to the site. I can go on to um

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G5 is just I mean the next sheet just shows I mean This is just a forebay area, I mean the um area of the um rain garden showing the materials. And then sheets um seven and eight are pre and post

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development. And then sheet nine, basically we added on the um canopy areas on site, which are those these dash lines that run around through the area coming up around here, coming down. And basically everything

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behind here is all tree canopy. So, those are the major changes um to the site plan. >> Okay. Uh thank you, Paul. Can I change it Can we change his uh name by by by Hope's uh Sadie?

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>> Um >> Yeah, I'm wondering if I'm actually using my daughter's uh laptop. >> That's okay. >> [sighs] >> Might be able to. So, um as Sadie's working on that, um Kristen, uh you and I had a conversation earlier today about some things that

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might still need to be uh looked at with this project. Do you have comments um about those things? >> Um So, there's been um since the last hearing for this project was continued, it's you know, been a few

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weeks in between meetings. So, there's There actually was a submission from the applicant last Wednesday, which we sent out to peer review. We got comments back from peer review. Those went back out. And then we just got additional these some of these additional

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um updates that Paul has just shared today. So, those haven't been reviewed by the planning board's peer review um yet since there's been a couple back and forth there. So, I think some of the

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concerns that um Joe Serwarka still had were related to the layout [snorts] of the water lines um and I guess one question for Paul and the team,

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where are you with the Byfield Water District's review of those connections? And then I'll two-part question, the concern peer review had was how those water connections relate to um

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the septic design. So, if you could just kind of talk about septic and water and update us on that, that would be helpful. >> I'm not sure if the water department has seen the revised plan as of today yesterday or basically when these were resubmitted in.

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What we did do is Jack wrote a response back to the peer review on his last comment latest comments. Um which was basically I'll just go over what was the sediment in the four bay rain garden was was changed. Um the rain garden detail was changed.

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Um the water is again the water services are coming in off of Church Street and coming in and we will create an easement for all those over the property once they're installed and we can create an easement for that. Um I'm sorry, what was the other um

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question regarding >> Um septic design. >> So, well again the septic will be if we have to do additional testing then we'll do that. Right now the one of the proposed septics for the duplex is actually in the back over on this side here.

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And again we'll look at possibly depending on where with the location and soils maybe back again in this area as we have the minimum required setbacks off the side yards and we meet the have the soil um the soil suitable material for

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for the septic. But that again is going to be up to the board of health. >> Yeah, so I guess um Pete just these latest changes haven't been reviewed by peer review yet. >> Got you. So, we have questions about water and biofuel water. We have questions about septic design.

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Now the traffic modification Uh, just for I don't know if everybody was aware that the select board opted not to close the street. Is that correct, Kristen? >> Yes. >> And they were opting for the option the

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first option which was our recommendation which is the this modification to the curb cut. So, will you need more information than just the lines that are drawn? Will he need any other configurations for that? >> Uh, may as well leave it. I'm sorry.

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>> Yeah. Go ahead. >> Go ahead, Paul. >> No, no. I was saying we had extended this pavement out 24 ft and it has had a radius curve coming in to slow traffic down. I think we'll be working with the public works again it's actually in regards to how they are would like that

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entrance way done. We're just trying to keep maintain the 24 ft pavement width in the effort fire apparatus. >> Okay, great. So, we have still have some work to do with public works. Okay. >> Whoever whoever's in charge of accepting the the final layout and the entrance way.

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>> Okay. And we just have the response for Joe's response that hasn't been reviewed yet. Okay. Let me see if anything else, Paul? Or anybody anything else from your team members? >> I don't have any. >> Okay. Thanks. >> We've been in touch with the the water

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board but we wanted to finalize the location of the water lines before making a submission to that so that we don't have to change it. Our original location for the water lines was going to be on Central Street but since we found out that we'll be closing that corner of Church Street we

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knew we'd be working in Church Street anyway. We figured we'd isolate the work to Church where it's less intrusive to people driving down Central. And that also we're we're trying to avoid what I am guessing is a significant

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amount of ledge where the existing road is going and we'd have to hammer that 4 ft deep and that's you know everybody's listening to hammering all summer so trying to avoid that as well hence the lines are to the back house by Eastman where we

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think there's diggable soil and lower grade that will be filled. >> Okay. All right thanks Mike. Let me see if any of the planning board members have any questions. Larry do you have any questions sir? >> I think they answered most of

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the questions I had or at least Kristen raised most of the questions I had. I'm just curious where is the existing septic system for the existing house? >> It's right back in here. >> And you can't there's nothing you can do there you're going to have to put it away back.

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>> Well we're looking at either revising and putting a system in here depends on the soils. And we have to keep separation again from property line and water lines. And the duplex is actually will be back up in this area here.

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>> Okay. All right thank you. That's all I had Pete. >> Thank you Larry. Uh Steve do you have any questions at this time? >> No though I'll say the discussions with the select board were certainly interesting but I'm done. >> Okay thank you Steve.

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Scott do you have any questions sir? >> Um really no questions other than um is there anything going on like anything on site as of now is there

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any demolition work being done on the existing house? >> There's nothing that's done that's being done right now but we would like to get started on that while the weather is still good for you know exterior work

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roofing that kind of thing. >> Okay. Okay. Um oh, one last question on if you did bring the field um you know, closer to the existing house,

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I'm assuming that you would be pumping up graded uh to that field. Um Is that true? >> No, the grade is pretty low on the back uh at

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the back of the existing house where the driveway is now. That's almost at like basement grade. >> Okay. All right. That's all I got. Thank you. >> All right. Uh thanks very much uh Scott. Um

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do we have any submissions uh Kristen from anyone in the public? Any written submissions or questions? >> We do not have any written submissions. >> Okay. Uh can we drop the plan set down just to see if there's any public individuals that have any questions or

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comments uh that they would like answered? Are there any raised hands anywhere, Kristen? >> I'm seeing any at the moment. >> Oh. Okay. All right. Um so, we were scheduled

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um the current deadline uh for the extension that's in place is June 20th. Um so, it's definitely we're going to have to push this deadline back a little bit. Um and um I know that uh Sadie was kind of working on a draft

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of a decision, but I don't think we're there yet. Um it sounds like we still have some things to work out on the plan, and then after we do that, we're probably going to have to have some more eyes dotted and tees crossed. So, I'm wondering if it makes sense that we have an extension

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that gives us time just in case anything takes place so we don't have to continuously ask for an extension. Kristen, would it be, you know, crazy to to look for a 3-month extension just so it's there so we don't have to ask for it and then we can move this along as we need to?

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>> I think that should be plenty and I think it's, you know, makes sense to just try to make sure we get it in. >> Okay. >> I don't think it would take that long to get to a decision but I think it's always a good idea to just

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get one date on the table. >> I I would kind of encourage that thinking Mike just so it's there so we don't have to worry about are we going to cross a deadline? So that would be the first request I think that I would ask you and your team. And

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what what's your feeling about that Mike? >> As far as the timing on that? >> Say again. >> As far as the timing on 3 months? >> Yeah. I mean so we we your your extension is going to expire on the on June 20th.

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>> That's good and we won't be ready by then. I I concur with that assessment. I think we probably need another month beyond that. >> Okay. >> If it keeps us from doing extra housekeeping, I'm not opposed to that. I just, you know, always.

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>> I I hope it is too but if you would make that request I think we would appreciate that. Here's the reality, we're entering into the summer and it sounds like you still have work to do with Byfield water. The septic design has to be fine-tuned and the public works. So all these pieces

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still need to be put together in the package. So I'm kind of thinking that maybe let's have you guys come back in 6 weeks. That should give enough time. >> That's the question that I had. Does the septic design have to be be by the of Health prior to the Planning Board

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approving the subdivision? >> It doesn't have to be. Correct Yeah. Kristen? >> Yeah. >> It doesn't have to be. But, you know, it's nice that we can say, "Hey, this makes sense the way it is." And we feel confident about saying, "Yes, go

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forward." If for some reason it, you know, you run into a bump, I wouldn't want to have to have you then come back to us and say, "Oh, we have to really redesign this thing completely. We're not going to put the wall over there. We're going to put this over there." and move things around and you know, just Yeah. >> I think it makes sense to at least, you

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know, I hired a septic designer. They did the test pits. I'd like to get like a preliminary design or set eyes on it for him to say, "I'm comfortable with this. I feel confident that we can make a septic design without any further changes or,

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you know, tweaking lot lines or anything like that." So, I'm not opposed to that. >> Okay. All right. >> And if we're good with the water line locations, if there's nobody's no objection to that, I'll submit that tout suite to the uh uh

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Byfield water board, Marvin. >> Makes sense. Yeah. >> Yeah. Commissioner, yes. >> We're happy wherever they're happy with, you know, and it makes sense and follows the regulations. So, you know, uh but I just want to give enough time so that all that can get done. So, I'm kind of

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thinking that maybe we would have you come back to visit with us again maybe 6 weeks. Uh that'll give plenty of time to get everything done and have everything completed and then we can have our decision, you know, say you will have an opportunity to to draft a little bit

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more just so we can keep this moving. Um rather than having you come back in 2 weeks to say we have to extend it in 2 weeks. Um >> I agree, 2 weeks is not enough and 4 weeks is 4th of July, which I assume you guys uh do not have a meeting that week.

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>> So, I think probably maybe 6 weeks is a good number to land on. >> Is that the next meeting after the 4th of July holiday? >> It would be. >> All right. There we are. Six weeks it is. >> The summer does that, Mike. It just jumps up time.

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>> Poof. That's all right. No objection for me taking time off. So, we'll try to dot our eyes, cross our tees, have whatever back and forth we need with the peer reviewer. Although, I think at this point we're pretty well tuned in and hopefully the uh

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uh water commission will get us on an agenda and that also needs to be approved prior to the subdivision. >> Kristen? >> Um it's Um Yeah, we need to know they're okay

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providing you the water. And you know, so there should be some kind of letter directly from Byfield Water District saying they've reviewed your plan and you're all set. >> Okay. >> Great. So, I guess we'll we'll just ask

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for the an extension for 3 months. Gives us a nice a nice cushion. We'll visit back in 6 weeks. Do I have the date right? That'll be like the 15th of July. Is that about right, Kristen? >> Um I think uh I mean, we should confirm what

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everyone's schedules are around July 4th just to make sure, but at the moment the next scheduled day was July 16th. >> 16th. >> No, I'm sorry. The 15th. You're right. Yeah, 15th. >> All right. Let me see if I just want to see if board members have any other

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questions or concerns from the discussion. Larry? >> Oh, no, good. >> Okay. Uh Scott? Oh, you're you're muted, Scott. >> Yep. >> Good. Steve? >> Uh it's greenhead season. I'll be glad for a distraction.

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>> [laughter] >> They don't [clears throat] cross 95. That's the good news. They don't cross 95. Um, all right. Uh, that being the case, I would entertain a motion to continue this public hearing to the 15th of July at 7:15 via Zoom.

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>> So moved. >> Thank you very much, Scott. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Larry. Uh, any discussion on motion? Okay, then we're all call vote. Steve. >> Yes. >> Thank you, Larry. >> Yes. >> Thank you, Scott.

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>> Yes. >> And I would say yes, as well. Already, guys, thanks very much and continued progress. >> Thank you. >> All right. >> Thank you. Have a good night. Have a good night. >> Yep. >> Thank you. Good night. >> All righty, uh, continuing on to new

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business. Uh, project update and a a request for a partial release of security funds for Cypress Hollow subdivision at 100 High Road, assessors map R-34 lot 21, property owner 100 High Road LLC, Tom Needy. Um,

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let's see, where are we with this, uh, uh, Kristen? >> Um, so this is the third, um, release of a portion of the performance guarantee funds for that subdivision project, um, and we, um,

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have not had it reviewed by peer review yet. So I spoke with the applicant and said we'd bump this to the next meeting. >> Perfect. I love that. So we will put this on our agenda for the next meeting. Any questions or comments for anyone? >> No.

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>> Okay. Uh, continuing on, old business. Uh, review of a site plan of an as-built for 84 Boston Road, assessors map R-36-0-23A, owner Sled Road LLC, applicant K&R

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Construction Company. Uh, Kevin Whitney, welcome back and T.J. if he's here. Um, Um, let's see where we are with our as-builts. >> Hello. Um, I don't think T.J.'s here tonight. He wasn't able to make it, but um, I believe everything's been submitted.

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>> Okay. Let me touch base with Kristen. Kristen, can you bring us all up to date? >> Um, yep. So, uh T.J. and Kevin submitted an as-built um I can't remember the date a little while

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ago. I think it was early May that um plan went out to peer review. We got comments back from peer review. Those went back out to T.J. and Kevin and then we got a revised as-built with additional comments and we got that peer

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reviewed. So, there's been a couple back and forth since the board has last talked to Kevin. Um, everything's been moving along very smoothly and efficiently um and I think where we are now is the peer review letter that the board has

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received um shows that you know, he's uh Joe Surakka has reviewed all the revisions and is comfortable with um the plan that's been submitted. >> Okay. Great. So, Joe's happy and everybody's had an opportunity hopefully to read

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Joe's letters and the uh correspondence back and forth. Let me see if there any questions. Larry, do you have any questions, sir? >> I do not. >> Great. Uh, Steve, do you have any questions? >> No, I do not. >> Great, Steve. Uh, Scott, do you have any questions? >> Uh, no questions.

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>> Great. Um, and Kristen, the concerns about um trying to do our lights dark sky compliant, uh those issues have been addressed? >> Yep. Um, that's my understanding and Kevin, you know, feel free to chime in,

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but I I know you you um added >> Yes, we added we added kind of like a shield to the lights to reduce the glare and and direct the light directly to the ground like the design was proposed. >> Okay.

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Very good. Hopefully the shields will stay in place and everybody will be happy. Okay. I would entertain a motion to approve the improvements as completed and to close out the site plan review for Caner Construction at 84 Boston Road.

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>> I'll make that motion. >> Thank you very much, Larry. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Steve. Any discussion on the motion? Any? Okay, seeing no discussion. Scott, how do you vote, sir? >> Yes.

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>> Thank you. Larry? >> Yes. >> Yes. Steve? >> Yes. >> Yes, and I will concur as well. Very good. So, Kevin there you have it. >> Thank you. >> All right. Anything else, Kristen?

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>> No, just we'll uh we're still we we have not received the invoices from peer review for those the work that's been done. So, we still have funds in the escrow account, Kevin.

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So, once we get uh Joe's final invoices and pay those, we'll have another vote with the planning board to return any remaining funds to you. I think you have enough in there that you'll cover it, but if you don't, I'll let you know. >> [snorts]

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>> And yeah, we'll say that and I'll be in touch with you about just sort of paperwork around the closeout. >> Okay. Sounds good. Thank you. Great. Very good. Thanks, Kevin. Thank you. All righty. If I see that correctly, Kristen, the

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planner's report has been given. We've gone through our agenda. It is 7:42. So, um I don't see any other business for this evening. If that being the case, would someone like to make a motion to

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adjourn tonight's meeting? >> I will make that motion to adjourn. >> Scott, you are my hero. Thank you very much. Is there a second to that motion? >> I can >> Oh, Larry, wonderful. Is there any discussion, anyone? Okay, uh roll call vote. Scott? >> Yes.

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>> Thank you. Larry? >> Yes. >> Thank you. Steve? >> Yes. >> And I vote as yes, as well. Uh ladies, thank you very much for this evening. Everyone, have a great one.