All right. Excellent. Uh, roll call. Um, Bernardo >> here. >> Wilson >> here. >> Tom >> here. >> Joseph >> here. Um Brian >> here
>> and Nicholas is in attendance tonight. Um first up is the review and approval of the last uh meeting minutes. Any additions, changes, comments? Um motion to approve. >> Motion to approve.
>> Second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Excellent. Okay. Uh first up is D file number 06108258 Avon Street. This is for a certificate
of compliance uh construction of a 12unit apartment building. Um Peter, how you doing? >> Good evening, Mr. Chairman, fellow members. Uh just for the record, Peter Blazelle from Williams and Sparis. Um for the applicant, um we had our site
visit last week um during a very cold day. [laughter] >> Certainly was. and uh got it got in there despite all the all the snow banks. But um yeah, so we're requesting a certificate of compliance for the project. Um we've done an asbuilt, we've done um all our inspections and
everything has uh turned out good. U very happy with the project and uh we're just here to request that you close the project out, please. >> Excellent. Thank you, Peter. Um I don't have any questions. The site was completely stable when we showed up. Um everything just seemed to be in order
aside from going inside and looking at stuff which I'm really not concerned about. Uh for first floor elevation was to the spec of the plans and uh at this time I'd like to open up to any commissioners for any questions about this.
Nope. Uh pretty straightforward. Um but yes, at this time I'd like to call for um a motion to approve the uh certificate of compliance. Excuse me. Motion to approve certificate of compliance. >> Second. >> All in favor?
>> I >> I thank you. >> Uh next up is 83 to 93 Bennington Street. Also a certificate of compliance. Uh this is for the apartment building. >> How you doing?
>> Thank you. Uh Mr. Chairman, members of the commission for the record of Rexel with Engineering Alliance. uh here this evening on behalf of the owner and applicant for 83 and 93 Bennington Street which you might recall was 114 unit apartment building um on Bennington
Street um had a sitewalk last week again on the same frigid day um as you saw the the site or probably didn't really see with the snow but um the site had been fully landscaped um over the summer stable um and was complete and I believe
is ready first compliance. So, I'm happy to answer any questions or comments that you might have. >> Um, I don't have any questions. Uh, I thought the elevator system for the car park was stupendous. Um, looking forward to seeing that in action. Um, it was a bummer not to be able to see the
landscaping, but there was definitely evidence that it happened. You can see the bushes popping up and you can see the dog park stuff, you know, the uh bags that were on the top there uh of the poles. But um I don't have any questions and I'd open it up to any
commissioners that might for this one. No. Okay. Um so at this time I'd like to call for um to approve the certificate of compliance for this property. >> Make a motion to approve the certificate of compliance. >> Second. >> All in favor?
>> I thank you. I appreciate it. >> Uh next up uh D file number is 0610855. This is for 36 Lee Burbank Highway uh notice of intent. Open up the hearing.
[clears throat] This is for a demolition of two buildings. Um and it's going to be used as a layown area for massports uh for pre-fabricated pieces of um infrastructure.
>> This is the the Herz building, right? >> Uh right next door. You know where the jug handle is? >> Yeah. >> It's right there where that old brick building was >> where the brick building is being torn apart. Like got it. It's to the right of it. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> But I'll uh I'll let Lars go into a
little bit more detail about this. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. problem. As you mentioned, Oh, the mic. Yeah, there it is. Yeah, the um right under the screen. >> Yeah, there you are. And then just pull it down a little bit.
>> Can you hear me now? >> Yep. [clears throat] >> Do I need to start over? >> Uh just say your name and um who you are for the record and whatnot, but yes, I I would like to make sure that gets into the record, sir. >> For the record, I'm Dr. Lars Carlson, professional wetland scientist with BHB.
With me this evening is Brad Washurn from Massport and Ed Ryan from Scanska. >> Thank you. >> This is for uh work at 36 Lee Burbback Highway and um as you uh indicated there the proposed work is demolition of two
existing structures to uh provide room for uh future use as a staging area for um staging and storage for ongoing garage construction at Logan Airport. So for the entire site is within land subject
to coastal storm flowage in that the FEMA uh flood plane is at elevation 10. Most of the site is 10 or or below. There is a figure in the NOI showing the the FEMA map and demonstrating that it
is on flood plane is also within the Chelsea Creek designated port area and there's a map showing boundaries of that. The work is entirely inland and will not affect any of the marine uh activities that that go down on down
there. The site does abut uh Chelsea River or Chelsea Creek and it also there's a c under an existing rail bed. It goes into Bell Island inlet
and um as a tidal waterway, both both our title waterways are tidal waterways. They uh have a riverfront area which is set off the mean high watermark. On this drawing, the mean high watermark is drawn in blue and >> [clears throat]
>> um on on the creek and there is a also a salt marsh bordering on Chelsea Creek and that is highlighted in in blue on that drawing. Other resources and so from the high water mark which is based on the Noah title datim there is a 100
foot riverfront and 200 foot riverfront. The majority well one of the buildings is outside of the riverfront area but one of the buildings is in uh in both the 100 foot riverfront and the 200 foot riverfront but we'll talk about that in a sec. Other resources present include
coastal bank and there's a 100 foot buffer zone from coastal bank on this plan. Coastal bank is shown in green. There's a bank along Jesse Creek as well as along Bell Island Inlet and the 100 foot buffer from that bank is highlighted in yellow.
Um [clears throat] the riverfront the limit of the riverfront 200 is is uh drawn in red on that on that drawing. This drawing shows the proposed work. There uh will be roughly 18 1,8979
square feet of work in Riverfront which consists of the footprint the demolition of the what we refer to as the westernmost building or metal building. There two one one building is a metal building. The other building is a brick
building. Um that square is the is the metal building that will be demolished. This polygon down here is the brick building that will be demolished. Um and the resource counters are highlighted. Similarly, one other
element of the work is to construct an 8 by8 water shed for water service and also install a a new overhead utility line. The water The water service is that little box
and the um overhead utility line extends that way outside. It's it's actually outside of riverfront as is the second building to be demolished in the finished condition.
Concrete slab will be left in place at the metal building and the foundation for the brick building will be completely removed. That hole will be backfilled with um crushed stone and
gravel and then um stabilized with the a gravel surface during construction or during during the entire project. Um, so in summary, that removal of the building ends up reducing
the impervious area on the site during construction and and as the site is being used, there would be a staked erosion control barrier throughout on around the entire
perimeter of the site shown that's shown on this drawing in yellow. At the entrance at the entrance to the site, there'll be a um I call it it's a composite wheel wash type of structure. Uh it it's the the
majority of the site is already paved. So trying to use something like a stone construction entrance doesn't wouldn't work very well. But there is now out there a uh it's almost like plastic that you drive across and it helps uh remove any
soil that might be on the trucks. We don't anticipate that there will be much tracking in this project because the site is largely paved and the work will not create new disturbed area. The
disturbed areas will be the uh footing the concrete foundation from the metal building and then the gravel from the brick building. So during the project it'll be the site will be completely stable but
[clears throat] as shown on this drawing the perimeter will be surrounded by heat builds. uh between the resource areas and the and the staging area. The work has been designed to meet all of the performance standards of the wetland protection act including the
storm water management standards. And as I alluded to, the removal of the brick building is a net reduction in imperous surface. So there's no there's no uh changes proposed to the storm storm water management system.
Um and so with that they have to answer any questions. We request that the commission approve this project um as proposed. >> Thank you very much. Um so I was curious how long of a time period you're going to be using the site
for layown. Uh if Masport might have a timeline for that. I would just be curious. Um, and I think another question that we had, you mentioned a um a temporary um I can't remember what
it was and I don't have it written down in my notes here. Um, the I guess that's my biggest concern. the net um increase in um pvious surface is going to be a great thing. And have you
guys looked or done any um check of the current existing storm water management making sure that it flows? Someone at the other outlet or taken any video of inside to make sure it's not collapsed. It is a pretty old site and considering the age of the building that is going to get torn down. I'd just be curious if
something like that has been done. Um but to I the first question regarding the duration of the use I'd like to ask Ed Ryan at scansa can can answer that. >> Good evening Ed Ryan with uh Skanska USA
building. Um so we expect to be there until about 2030. That's how long the project runs uh at Logan Airport. Um, and as um, as LZ has mentioned, you know, we're going to use it primarily as a layown area. We may use it as a
mockup, an area for a mockup, and if we do, um, obviously we'll come and get the correct permits for that as well. >> Appreciate that. Yeah. I just want to make sure, you know, considering the length of the project, we're not going to >> pull a fast one. >> Sure. Sure. >> That's that's all I'm making sure. >> And so, one of the other things is, uh,
we do have a catch base in there that we intend to clean out. um because we do have we have noticed that there has been some uh flooding in the area. So um we'll clean that out as once we get to go ahead move forward. >> All right, sounds great. I just want to make sure that it's functioning properly
and you know any debris that gets you know uh with the de demolition of that older structure which you guys indicated that you'd be taking it right off site as >> correct. We've already uh we've already done the abatement in that uh in that building. Um, we expect about two weeks
of demo for between that building and the uh and the smaller metal building that LZ has referred to. >> Yep. Yeah. I anticipate that's going to be much shorter. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Very quick. Very quick. >> Okay. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Um, any other questions? >> Yep. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Couple of
questions. The the uh the depth of the uh building, the brick building, the depth of the basement right now, how how deep is that? below grade. >> It's uh roughly six feet >> and that's going to be all crushed stone. >> That's Yes, it's going to be it's going to be gravel and then crushed stone on
the top. I think it's about two feet of crush stone. There's a detail on sheet LC4 shows the detail for the back fill on the foundation which is as Ed said
there's gravel bar topped by woven filter fabric and then crushed stone >> and Um the to my understanding this is not going to be site for demolition material from where it it
>> it's going to be just materials for building >> just just material lay down essentially. Um we'll put um more than anything it's going to be for the pre-cast for the garage that we're building at Logan Airport. Um that's prime that's its primary use and like I said there may be a mockup at some point that we want to
put on site. Um, and uh, but that's about it. >> And out of curiosity, where is the news where is the parking lot going to be? >> It's at Terminal E, right in front of Terminal E. Um, if you've noticed, Ter T terminal E is uh, it's it has uh,
basically an open space of surface parking. Was surface parking for a long time. And now what we're going to do is we're going to put a six sixstory garage around what they call the CHP. Um and um uh it's basically two two stories of um
of parking for Logan Airport employees and then four stories for um for the public. >> Well, you have to increase the uh size of the entrance in as much as I I you know that's a funny location for the
entrance now. It's that jug handle with those big trucks going around all the time. >> Yeah. So, um, we know that we have a problem there. Um, what we would end up doing was we take a right out of the building, out of out of the area, take a right. We have a traffic management plan that we put together that that I can
forward to you. Um, because we would have a problem going around. If we were coming south, I'm sorry, if we were coming north on Route One, um, we'd have to we'd have to turn around and we can't turn around. I can't think of the name of the uh the route there, but we, you
know, we'd have to It's Route 16. Yeah. So, we'd have a difficult time getting the trucks that we're looking at because we're looking at um 60 foot long uh um pieces of pile caps that we or piles that we may have there. Um so, it's it's um you know, it it would be difficult to
do. So, we do have a traffic management plan that shows how we enter Logan Airport and how we would enter um this facility. Yeah, that's an important jug handle for all those >> Oh, I know. I know. We trucks that go around. >> Yeah. And that was the first thing we saw when we were actually scoping out um
the the areas um that uh we wanted to make sure that the trucks had the access to be able to move around there and if they weren't, that wasn't going to be a spot for us. >> Thank you. You're welcome. >> The brick building, do you have an idea of when that will be completed?
>> Um depending on when we get our demo permit. So, our demo permit is being held up right now until this commission until the everything is voted on. Um, if we I would say if we got it within a month after we got the approval, um, it would be two weeks after that. So,
probably six weeks from approval. >> So, the inside that's already just all wood piling. You can just kind of see it. It's basically been stripped down. Is the whole building being taken down? >> Oh, yeah. The whole thing. The whole thing taken down. Okay. >> Yes. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um uh I have a
question. Are you planning to have like equipment or trucks uh parking there? Like >> that is not our intent. Um I can't say that wouldn't ever happen. Uh we pro we could possibly if we have an overflow over at the airport there there would be
a possibility that we would put equipment there. It wouldn't be it's not a crane or anything like that. >> Long longterm or anything like that. >> Yeah. Just Yeah, exactly. It' be very shortterm and it might be lifts or something to that effect, but it wouldn't be um any large uh excavating equipment or anything like that.
>> Okay. >> Um are there any areas of the parking lot currently destabilized? >> No. Not >> no. >> No. >> You guys are going to store pre-cast garage pieces here, right? >> Yes. >> Are you going to store them on the old footprint of the building?
>> Uh likely not. likely not. >> Yeah, we just because it's gravel there, we would just basically go on the uh the asphalt. >> Okay. And then the third building stays. >> Uh yes, it does. That's the larger of the metal buildings. That's where we would have somebody if if if we have a
place that's attending if we had a laborer that's sort of um basically ushering the um the trucks in and out. >> And then so the water service is just for wheel washing. >> Yeah. So the water service that was that is there right now, we would demo we would demo it. Um
on the other side of the building um on the Irving, you know, where the Irving U pipes are. There's a service over there that comes into the building. We're going to cut that off, bring it over so we'd be o over near the um uh the entrance and exit of the site.
>> Yeah, you definitely won't make the turn with 60 foot. >> Yeah. No, we couldn't do it. We couldn't do it. We we looked at it. We have a tra like I said, we do have a traffic management plan that I could forward to you people and and uh uh for your for your review. So I would I would say you should probably have a flagger every
time you move someone else because the people fly around that job. >> Yes. >> Yeah. Okay. So you could do that. >> Thank you. >> Anything else? >> You're saying the demolition will take about two weeks? >> About two weeks. >> Two weeks. So, and after that, I assume you will remove the
um the sediment control for the trucks like for the you mentioned the plastic that you're going to put on the floor to >> we're going to have that. We're going to have that throughout >> for the for while we're there. We're going to have we're going to upkeep that. Um >> and for the catch basin that you have
there, are you planning to put any sediment control during this duration? Is that >> Well, we'll have sediment Yes, we'll have sediment control up there. Yes. There is a silt sack in that catch basin already and there on the erosion control drawing there's a detail for that. So
that that silt sack will be maintained as necessary. How >> how often do you plan on on like do the maintenance for that >> just to have that on >> really as needed. Um we'll we'll have some we have uh people that we have I think six people that are certified um
that will basically walk the site and as needed we'll replace that. >> Okay. And then they do it like this every month, two months or >> uh we would be there probably every week and we'd have somebody reviewing it every week. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Okay. Um any more questions from our
commissioners? >> No. Okay. Um at this time before we close it out, I'd like to open it up to anybody in the audience that might have any opposition or for this project.
Okay. Seeing none. Um motion to close out the hearing. >> Motion to close out the hearing. >> Second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> I >> I >> Okay. Um pretty straightforward. You don't you don't really have a a lot of
need for an additional storm water management system. You're not really going to be moving water around. You don't have structures aside from that small metal structure which I'm sure accommodates. And the increase in pvious surface is something that I'd like to see happen more in that area, not giant
automated warehouses. But uh seeing how this is where we are here, I'd like to call for a motion to approve this notice of intent for the demolition of these two buildings. >> Motion to approve the NOI for the demolition of the two buildings. >> Second.
>> All in favor? >> I. >> Excellent. Thank you guys very much and We'll be in touch with uh pre-construction um site walk down before you guys get going. Just making sure that erosion controls are in place and things of that nature. So uh just reach out when you guys after you guys get your paperwork
signed and signed off from the other permit for your demolition permit. Just reach out to us. We'll do >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Excellent. Uh next up, 320 Charger Street. This is an order of condition amendment request. uh change of scope
and decrease in parking. Uh represented by Rick S. [snorts] Thank you. Um, Mr. Chairman, [clears throat] um members of the commission, uh for the record of Rexel with Engineering Alliance, uh here this evening, uh on behalf of NRC Remap,
Charger Owner LLC, who is the applicant, um for this proposed amendment, uh [clears throat] representing the applicant, with me this evening is um Andy Dulac, you know, who's here in the in the front row. Um you might recall [clears throat] this project came before
this commission earlier this year. Um it was approved under D file number 061-0844. And that particular project um included the construction of a five-story garage that would house about
600 plus vehicles. It was proposed at that point in time to be um a park and fly open to the public. So folks that were utilizing Logan Airport would show up um at haphazard times, park in the
garage, pay a fee, get in a shuttle bus and and [clears throat] head out to um Logan Airport. Um the property is now under agreement um by this applicant and we are seeking an amendment to the order of conditions um to not build the
parking garage and permit this just as an open parking lot storage. So the number of vehicles would decrease by about half. It would be about 315 vehicles. Um and this would be a storage lot um for u locally owned rental car
facility. So it would no longer be haphazard people coming and going. It would be a managed lot, not open to the public. Um cars would come in mostly on on car carriers and then they would be sent to the airport um on an as needed
basis. Um so that said, just to kind of get into the details, this is an aerial of what's here now. You might recall several years ago uh we peritted um this particular lot directly next door which is owned um by the same applicant.
They're now purchasing this particular site which is at 320 Charger Street which is comprised of about 2 and a half acres. It's currently occupied by two existing buildings. Um and you can see it's a contractor's yard that exists [snorts] right up to um the top of slope
um that heads down towards Rumy Marsh. Um so the resource areas um that are present are land subject to coastal storm flowage which is elevation nine in this particular case, the salt marsh which we're just in the 100 foot buffer zone of the salt marsh and there's an
unnamed river right here which creates a 200 ft um riverfront area. Um if [clears throat] I flip graphics here and go to the proposal. Um the proposal is to demolish the larger building, keep
um the other building which be which would be used as a repair garage. Right now it operates as a repair garage uh for um the existing um contractor's yard. Um resource areas stay the same. Um the building just goes away. There's
a little bit of extra paving that gets added in this area over here. Um, keeping all the same elevation in that particular area. We are adding about 10,000 square ft of landscaping between the top of bank um and the limber of the
parking area >> [clears throat] >> um which would enhance the area with quite a bit of plantings um that are being added um along that area. um all um native plantings. Um the chant clear pear trees
that are going to be planted along this increased buff uh landscaped area here that was part of the previous um pl um plan. There'll be things like black cherry, pitch pines, bay berry, marshela, beach plum, and Virginia rose. um that would
all be planted um that are all noted on the landscaping plan. Um along that limit of work, the storm water is going to be handled in the same exact fashion as it was under the previous plan. The previous plan utilized a pvious pavement solution. The reason why we utilized a
permanent pavement solution, a previous pavement solution is because there's a fairly high groundwater here. So in order to get separation between the pave surface, the storm water BMPs um and the groundwater, we used a pvious asphalt,
which is a recognized BMP by the DP. If we decided to use things like catch basins and water quality units and cult chambers, we would have had to raise the grade of this site probably about three feet in order to be able to get adequate separation of groundwater. So this was a
way that kept that kept the site basically at the similar topography as what it exists. Um so the lighter area is about 30,000 square ft of pvious asphalt. The darker area is just regular standard asphalt that would drain
towards the pvious asphalt where it can infiltrate. There's an overflow pipe located along here which would be buried at grade a perforated 8 in pipe which would be at the bottom of the stone layer of the previous asphalt which is
the same pipe that was shown on the previous design um that would overflow um into the um drainage structure that's there. There's also we're also, as was in the previous design, reducing the pavement width of the driveway that
heads in there. Um, which allows us to add this uh greenscape in here. Um, and we're also adding new deep sump hooded catch basins and a water quality inlet prior to discharge uh back towards the resource area. Those catch basins right
now aren't deep sump and they do discharge back to the march marsh directly in a pipe without the benefit of a separator. Now we're adding in a separator just to increase the um TSS removal and result in the net improvement.
So so all in all it's it's fairly similar uh project. There's no new resource areas. There's really no new um impact other than that we did note the additional impact of land subject to coastal storm flowage which just results
in repavening existing hard pan surface. The impacts of the riverfront area stay identical um to the previous plan. There's no change. There's just um a bit more impact um to land subject coastal storm flowage. Um we're not filling in that flood plane.
We're just changing it from a hard pan to an either either a pvious or an imperous um asphalt. So, while it's noted as an impact, we're not really changing the elevation of the flood plane um in that area. So, it's essentially the same exact project as
you approved earlier this year, except we're omitting the parking garage, reducing the amount of cars that are stored there by about half. Um and still still um pushing forward the same type of uh proposed storm water BMPs um as in
the um previous design as well as keeping this landscape fringe um directly adjacent to the salt marsh which will add improvement to the salt marsh incre you know improve the habitat um and hopefully create a much cleaner
use from this site um that has compared to what's gone on there in years past. So, I guess with that, I'll turn back to the commission for any questions or comments. Obviously, what happens from here is a new order of conditions gets issued. There's a check box that says
amendment versus order of conditions that gets checked. And should the commission decide to add different conditions than what was previously, you have the ability to do that. Although since the intent, the resource areas, the BMPs are all the same, I would
expect that the order would pretty closely mirror the order that was already issued should you choose to move forward in this as as an amendment. >> Thank you, Rick. I appreciate that. And um thank you for the very thorough explanation of it. the um I guess the
only question I have is where you said you were going to make it a little shorter on the entryway in um that's something you've already approved been approved with the city to do something like that. >> Yes. So this is not a rightaway. This is part of the >> uh the the land that's owned in fee.
Okay. >> So it's just a driveway. This was already approved on the previous plan. This this change here hasn't changed. >> I don't know why for some reason I thought that was a part of the city that So that is >> No, the city right of way ends right here. Yeah. And then this is just a private driveway. So there will be a
gate that will be placed right here that'll prevent the the public from pulling in. They'll still have full access to BFI site um which exists over here, but but this site and this site will now be gated here. Right now it's gated down here. That gate guard shack
will move over to here. >> It's just paved so nicely after you get past that Caruso building. It kind of just looks like a a road. I'm sorry. Right. Anyways, uh >> it it does it looks and feels like a road, but it's really just a private driveway. >> Yeah. The um when we walked down the
site, we had those what two foot openings in the back that are just flowing right out. So, >> correct. >> So, any any catch to get, you know, rid of the solids and things of that nature out of the into the marsh, draining back over that way is is definitely an improvement for me.
>> Um the instead of using imperous pavement, I think that's also another benefit. which enhances uh water infiltration instead of trying to move it around somewhere as well. Um I don't really have any questions and I definitely feel comfortable with the
change, but I'd like to open it up to other commissioners uh and get their thoughts about this. >> Uh Rick, why not have all pvious asphalt? Um, it was really just kind of a dollars and
cents thing. The that the because if you think about it, this is like a giant reservoir, right? This is almost 24 in thick of gravel. There was so much storage that happened in that 30,000 square ft that it more than mitigated
the rest of the um the rest of the pavement. So, it's just going to be easier to maintain um and and quite frankly cheaper to install. But it it far exceeds um you know the pre and post is dramatically different. The post development is dramatically less than
the pre-development and it way exceeds all the treatment standards. So there was just wasn't a need to do it. Plus there's a lot there's truck traffic that still comes in and out of here that accesses BFI. So it this the pvious asphalt and heavy trucking doesn't
really coincide very well >> once you get on the site. These are all passenger vehicles that are stored here. So it just kind of made sense >> also for clearing it out during the winter times plowing it makes it a lot easier to maintain the property when you put impervious but I get I get the
rationale behind that. >> Yep. >> Um any other questions? Good. >> Um so I I'm reading your amendment request and the building that remains will be used to repair vehicles. >> Yes. I don't really consider this an
amendment as far as the scope is a little too much for it to be an amendment for what was issued. Are there other oil sand separators? >> Yes. Yeah. So, it's already it's a currently a repair garage right now that's what it operates as. They do full repairs. Now, the repairs that are going
to happen in there in the future aren't aren't hardcore repairs. This is this is like rental car facilities that we're talking about. Um windshield wipers, tires, that sort of thing. Not oil changes and heavy mechanical repairs. None of that's going to happen in there.
>> But did does the current building have oil sands? >> Yes. >> That are operational. >> Yes. >> What happened? Where where did those go? Because >> they go into an MDC trap and into the sewer. >> But those weren't into those weren't in your initial filing because those were getting removed. Were they not? Those
two buildings were getting removed and they were getting replaced with um with a um with a with a parking garage, >> right, >> that had same thing, floor drains, oil water separators into Huh. >> new ones.
>> Yeah, we proposed a new one in this. >> It's right here. We proposed a new MDC trap in in this facility just because the one that's there is pretty old. So it's there, it's functional, but we still proposed a new
one to be put in out front. >> Okay. What's the for for my knowledge, what's the advantage of doing an amendment over just closing out the old NOI and filing a new one? >> Um, it's the same resource areas. There's already been a D filed number issued for it. Um, it's really the same
impacts to the resource areas. We replace we're replacing a building with pavement here. >> No, I get that. But >> that that that's all right there. Just because the DP file number's already been issued for this site. >> Does the D still review if we just do another >> Yes. Yes.
>> Yes. This goes to the D. >> Goes to the DP as well as you guys and we did submit it to the DP. >> That'll be they'll have 10 days to review it and hit us back with any comments. >> Yeah, it's the same same procedure. The only the only difference here really I mean this is still a public hearing. It
was advertised in the newspaper the not the the butters were noticed. The only difference is we didn't fill out a notice of intent form. We filled out uh um we we addressed it in the letter but it gets all the same level of review as a notice of intent would. >> All right. Thanks.
>> Okay. Any other uh questions, comments, concerns? We'll see. Ju just a comment like the area is I know it's not created by them but it's very dirty like I see a lot of plastic going into the and and I
know it's not created by those but just thinking if something can be done I love the plants being there maybe that can block and maybe do a little maintenance just and I know it's not caused by you it probably come from like the market basket and those areas there when when with the wind it goes all there you can
see even if you go there by that area you just just thinking of ways and maybe something to keep in mind to and I know it's not created probably by you but that's something that I think
>> oh okay >> okay that >> okay yeah >> yeah and to your to your point this whole area back here is all >> hard pan it's open Um there's debris
piles. There's th this use as you can see here is going to be a much cleaner use. Um you know they sweep their lots regularly. They take care of lots because it's in their interest to keep the lots clean because they want the cars to stay clean. >> Yeah. you know.
>> No, thank you and thank you for that having the maintenance and it will help and like I say it's hard to manage that because it doesn't come from you come from the whole north gate area but it's just sad to see all all that plastic going into the to the water. Yeah. Thank
you. >> Awesome. Any other comments? >> Okay. So, seeing as how you'll be still upgrading um the oil water separator in that building that you currently have,
you'll probably do a little bit of a renovation in that building to make it a a little more aesthetically pleasing. Um, I don't really see it as a huge uh it's not it's the same impact, but
it's not a huge I don't think it's out of the scope and it reduces the amount of light not getting into the marsh when that when the sun comes up and over. You know what I mean? It's you're not sticking a huge building back there. Um,
I'm comfortable with this, but um we'll I guess we'll put it to a vote. Um, so I'd like to call for a motion to approve this amendment request. >> Motion to approve the amendment request. >> Can I get a second?
>> I'll second it. >> All in favor? >> I >> I >> I The eyes have it. Thank you very much for appreciate it. >> Okay. Uh, next up is the is 85 Jones
Road, D file number 061 0854. Um, this is a notice of intent after the fact. Uh, they added a gravel um to a and removed a fence uh basically to open up for a driveway over there. Um, but
>> yeah. All right, that's fine. Um, we showed up on that really cool day to do your site walk down and it was it was definitely tough to see everything. Um, but if you wouldn't mind just saying your name, address for Oh, uh, Mike.
Yes. Button. Is it? Yeah. Okay, there you are. >> There's your slides. You just let him know when to change. >> Thank you. >> Good evening, everyone. My name is Yasmin. I'm representing the homeowners of 85 Jones Road. >> I'm just gonna open her.
Thank you. >> You can go to the next slide. Uh, in the next one. In the next one. Yeah, there we go. So, we did some home renovations inside. Uh,
after the work is was done, the homeowners decide to install crushed stone in the driveway to make it nicer. Uh, however, when the inspector came, he said that we didn't really pull a permit for that. So, that's why we are here today. Um the reason that they decided
to install the crystal stone is to make it look better because of winter time. They wanted actually to progress but on winter we couldn't really plant anything. So they decided to do the cross stones to look nicer for the neighborhood. Um and that's pretty much
how it was done. Uh the picture is not not the nicest one cuz we had snow. Uh but I think you can see a little bit in the corner uh what was done. We didn't do any um excavation, any digging or anything. We only laid down the crush
stone on the driveway. >> So, I guess my question is how deep and what was there before? It was um >> just dirt. >> Okay. And how deep is the crush stone? Like how many inches down is it? >> Um I'm not really sure, but I think it's
pretty thin. >> So, it's like superficial stuff. >> Yes, it's just superficial. Yeah, because they didn't do any digging or anything. >> Gotcha. Didn't alter the >> It's more like cosmetic basically. Mhm. >> Okay. Um and then you had a fence there previously, too. I saw the fence post
there. It was tough. We were a little closer to the stairwell and that's why it looked like concrete, Joe. That on that left side. We were trying to scrape it up. That's why we were seeing concrete. I should have went a little further, but the snow was pretty deep uh next to that other fence over there on
the right of the picture. >> Yeah. So, I didn't have the pictures from before. Uh, I got the pictures today before coming here from my clients and I was like, it's too late. But yeah, they had a fence before there, but it was falling up. You know, it didn't make any sense to keep that fence there. And
then you can see there is a white fence on this side, but that was the neighbors. It wasn't my my clients. So, the only thing we did it was really doing the crest stone and removing the old fence because it was falling. So, it didn't really look good. So basically
everything they did outside it was for cosmetic to look better for the neighborhood. >> Well, you also stabilized the site by putting down crushed stones and not having dirt over there in that area. And um you enhanced the property by adding some usable space as well.
>> Um any questions about this? >> Yes, Mr. Chairman. So, where the uh recycle bin is and everything, is is that a cement pad that the recycle bin is on? >> Uh
>> and and the trash bin, >> I'm not really sure. Uh I don't think it's um any type of asphalt. It's it's probably just old concrete. They didn't do anything there. The only thing that they did was on this side, on the right side. >> And and so when we were there, of
course, everything was frozen. Yeah. that um that reddish brown area is that just dirt? >> Yeah, it was there before. Yeah. >> And and are you going to leave it just dirt or you going to put grass there or? >> Uh we would just leave it like that
because it's not it's like sometime it's not asphalt but it's like a pavement type of thing. So, we can't really do like a grass there because then we would have to probably excavate and we don't really want to do that. >> Are you talking more towards the front of the picture on the left?
>> No, I'm talking from from the from the concrete back to where the uh recycle and the and and the um >> to the >> and the trash that whole that whole that whole length of uh the yard. >> Yeah, that's that's concrete over there.
Well, see, we thought it was something hard, too, but it could have been just frozen water. You know what I at that point? >> Yeah, like sand or something. Yeah, that's what we thought. We were kind of looking at it. It looked a little I don't know. Kind of reminded me when we scraped the surface a little like a Terzo floor like the way it but it's
probably just really old uh concrete. >> Yeah. I'm not even sure what it is at this point cuz it's old. Um, so only on the other side we did the crest stone cuz we couldn't really do grass and we didn't want to leave just dirt there.
Uh, but the the other side we didn't touch cuz otherwise they would have done something nicer than what it is right now. >> Any other questions? >> Okay. Um, all right. Uh, seeing there are no other
questions, uh, motion to close out the hearing. >> Motion to close out the hearing. >> Second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> Thank you. >> Yeah, no problem. Um, so I don't have any problem with this. The
site is stabilized as it stands. Um, you don't really have any additional things that you'll probably do and if you do anything else, you'll have to come against us to get permitted for that. if you alter dredge or change land in any way, change the elevation. >> Um, so
as it stands, I think it's in good condition and I'd like to call um for a motion to approve the notice of intent. >> Motion to approve the NOI. >> Second. >> Second. >> All in favor?
>> I. >> Excellent. Uh, we'll be following up. Um, and to close this out completely, we're going to have to you'll have to apply for a certificate of compliance >> uh at some point. So, we'll be looking forward to hearing from you to get this
closed out. So, you know, 20 years from now, we're not trying to close something out. >> Yeah, we are going to close the inside as well because we're waiting for this hearing to close the inside permit. So, we'll close everything. >> Excellent. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> Excellent. All right.
Next up, um, D file number 0610853, 35 Glendel A. This is for a notice of intent after the fact. Um, this was an added deck extension, a 20 by30 shed. Uh, and this is repres represented by
the property owner. Go to open the hearing. >> Hi everyone. Good evening. My name is Marlene Cruz. I'm the property owner at 35 Glendale Street. Um and uh yes, we um built a shed in the backyard after we
got a building permit. Uh we were allowed to build it. I was not uh told at the time that I needed a permit from the conservation. And I found this out afterwards when we were um building a deck in my front
yard, the front door. And um I just want to get all these issues resolved. I don't want to be in anyone's bad side in the city. I love living here. I don't plan on leaving anywhere anytime soon. And um I
I just want to get this issue resolved. I want to get this permit and be able to continue and um >> yeah, >> do what needs to be done. >> No, I I appreciate that. It was a It was a pretty complex uh site walk through.
Um especially with the comments that we got back from the D about the shed. Um the new pad that you guys laid down on the other side of the property in anticipation of imminent city seizure of the portion of that shed, the pool, the
deck that got built with the pool. Um, so I'm really not 100% about where we stand with the city permitting aspect of this and um where I know you want to get your deck done in the front so you have access to
your front door and things of that nature. Um but that's you kind of roped in the shed with that which I'm kind of I don't know it it's the D comments um just so other commissioners aware is that they don't consider a 20 by 30 shed
a small structure on the property and they have some reservations about that and you know to top it all off the part of the shed is on city property which is even makes for even more of a more
complex um situation. The deck, however, and the extension, I think that that is definitely something that you need to do. And the way that it's designed with the stairs that are going down instead of coming to the front, I appreciate that. I know a lot of your neighbors don't have that same situation. It just
goes right down to the property line, but um >> yeah, we have it's new, so it has to be to code and all of that. So, >> well, I'm in the process of um going through variance for that. um okay front
deck um I reached out to um the people that for the measurements I forgot their names um so that I can represent present it to to the city and um do this the right way however I need to do it.
>> No, absolutely. Um I think considering some of the decisions that have not really been finalized I think um with that Um, where do we go? What happened with the shed and the permitting and all of
that? Um, okay. Okay. I would like to continue. Yes. >> Yeah. No, that's >> Yeah. >> Yeah. No.
>> Okay. >> Okay. Um, as far as the shed is concerned, I considering the scope and size of it and how large your property is, I don't feel it makes a huge impact to the resource areas that you are adjacent to. Um, I
don't have a problem with it and I don't know how we can alter it in a way that would appease the D about the size of this structure. Um, but as long but let's just get the variances first and get that squared away so that we can
comfortably say that city has granted you permission to do this. I don't want to put the cart before the horse in this situation. So I I do think that this would definitely be better continued um than just making a rash decision right now. We'll definitely be in touch and I want to chat with uh some of the D folks
to figure out the shed aspect and how we can >> better that. >> Uh for sure. Um because it is it is a nice shed. I I think that was a it was a great idea to have a large structure like that so you can do work on your ATVs, store your camping stuff. It was
it was nice. And I don't have a basement at the house. So, we have nowhere to store any of our uh yard equipment or like you said, our camping stuff and my kids ATVs and bikes and all that stuff.
>> Yeah. Yeah. It's um it's interesting over in that area. There's, you know, it's all slab on grade. You you really couldn't do that kind of stuff. So, it kind of you got creative and I I applaud you for that. And uh hopefully everything goes well with the variance process and we will I'll leave this open
for now and we'll circle back around and uh we'll get this closed out and we'll get an proper order of conditions uh issued for that project. >> No, thank you. I appreciate it. I am actively trying to get this issue resolved and I um thank everyone here for the time and uh hearing me out.
>> No, absolutely. But yes, we'll definitely be in touch and um thank you for your time. Appreciate it. >> All right. See you soon. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. Um, so we have uh a letter of
of notice from the Northern Tree Service uh that we had a communication for applications of herbicides uh along the MBTA uh rail line, which is basically identical to the plan that they submitted um was it last year that they
did it. So I I essentially they're going to continue what they've been already authorized to do at this point. Um, but we had a laundry list of site visits uh on a extremely cold day
uh 36 Lee Burbank, 83 Bennington, 85 Jones Road, 8 Avon, 57 Chamberlain Aav, and uh 35 Glendale. And it was freezing. So, and I thank you all the commissioners that did come. Um, the ones that could stay as long as you
could. It was much appreciated. Um, any open items or open discussion? Anybody would like to >> Mr. Chair, Ju just a comment about the the permit to continue from the MBTA about the herbicides and
>> just a little bit concern or if the planet very close to the wet lands and that's something I brought out last year and I and I asked about what other options can we do so when it rains that doesn't fall into the wetlands. Mhm. >> And
I know they've been doing it and we need the tea. So that's but at the same time what other options and that's something I'm not saying that should be stopped but I would like them to come up with more options or start looking something that can propose >> and and not be applied to the wetlands.
>> No, absolutely. And the last time they I witnessed them bringing in heavy machinery to do clearing um on one of our site visits last year, it was it was definitely a little outside of the what I would consider vista pruning.
You know, just kind of cutting it back. But I I do feel as though that we we need to have a little bit more of a discussion with them to make sure that um heavy machinery is not coming in and doing copious amounts of work and moving earth around from what it looked like I
could see. I mean, we're probably maybe a quarter of a mile or half a mile away from it, but it definitely looked like it was pretty substantial as far as I'm concerned. Um, I think that was for the when we were out looking at the um removal of that billboard. I can't
remember which one it was. Why would we would be over there, but >> Oh, that's right. That was it was across the street from the park from uh Gibson Point up there. Yes. Now, now that you say it, um, but yeah, that was that was very interesting to see that, but we
could also revisit the type of herbicides they're using as well. >> Good point. Um, anything else? >> No. Okay. Uh, I guess at this time I'd like to call for a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second.
>> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> I >> Thank you.