good evening everyone and thank you for joining us for the conservation commission all those who wish to please uh stand and salute the flag i aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic
for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you do some roll call here uh Brian here Tom here uh Bernardo here Wilson here
and Joseph Lavlli is here uh not joining us tonight is Amelia Visqueke um and Dora first up is uh review and approval of the meeting minutes uh any corrections or changes to the minutes
no okay uh can I get a motion to approve the meeting minutes motion to approve second second all in favor i I I I Excellent all right uh first up is a
notice of intent um D file number 0610839 55 Sagamore Street uh this is an installation of pavers and land subject to coastal storm flowage if you wouldn't mind coming up and if you can turn the mic on and then
just state your name and address for the record um to begin with we removed the grass from our backyard because we didn't know we needed to get a perm for the to take the grass out second of all we took the
grass cuz my daughter is allergic to pollen we excavated 4 in deep to remove the grass to set the area for the yard the dirt was removed removed and properly disposed of the area was compacted and
hardscaped machinery three4s crushed stone was spread in the area and compacted building sand was spread and properly compacted pavers were pavers were properly placed in the area in addition
to prevent the flooding we dug up 12 in deep towards the shed in the fence installed 2 yards and 3/4s crushed stone for proper drainage the yard is pitching towards the corner of the shed in the other side
a neighbor installed approximate 5 yards of 34 crash stone for good drainage and all the properties and our work are pointing to that area we are confident that this project will not affect any
surrounding property and neighbors if changes need to be made we are willing to do as instructed we hope you will take all the revelent factors regarding to this situation into con consideration
we never intended to disobey rever conser conservation laws and we asked for conservation as we did not know about it in the future we intend to do a project we will notify the proper
authority right away sincerely Leticia Ariaga thank you very much did very well you're welcome appreciate that um so this was a project this is an NOI after the fact and for those that are not aware this is for pavers that as she
stated in it to be installed and I had a chance to walk this site down with a few of our other commissioners and as it stands I can't see why this would be not not acceptable under the Wetland
Protection Act um do any of the commissioners have any questions about this project yep i just want to first say to your daughter she did a great job thank you thank you for translating appreciate it of we've had a lot of people that have
come here before us that um didn't bring a translator or didn't have something as eloquent as you wrote so uh thank you very much but um I would say just for the stuff that was done for the crush stone was it done far enough like to towards the house was attached to the
house or was it farther away from it so it was a J so they had a a completely grassed in backyard and it was all of the grass was removed and it it is right up to the house correct yep
i can't remember it was right up to the house right yeah yeah that there was a little bit of a setback from the fence no that's I'm that's okay i I just wanted to make sure that I'm we're getting it right um any other questions
Wilson yeah no I second I know Joseline for for a long time and mom by coaching and some other things that I do but uh yeah I don't see I think part of the plan is we need I think I I understand I
don't think they did it they didn't know that there was a process to follow and I think this is probably something we have to bring out in the city when people purchases home we should we should build something because people they don't know I I for me when I purchase my home I
there is stuff that I didn't know and when you talk with most of the people that we have here they don't know so there should be like a little one or two pages that we should work on it we should work on because I'm sure that if they knew about it they probably will follow the process and this is probably
a headache for homeowners and um after the fact doing stuff that they don't know so that's my comment i think they didn't do it in in a bad way i think everything they did was to the best knowledge so I don't see a problem either yeah um are there any people in the audience
uh proponents or opponents of this project no and no more questions from the commissioners okay hi Angela Gos 5 council i haven't received any complaints or anything like that so I'm good with just as long as the commission is okay with what was
done thank you thank you appreciate that um hearing no more questions and um no more input from anyone in the audience i'd like to call for a motion to close out the hearing i'll make a motion to close the hearing second second all in
favor i I um Okay uh now I'd like to call for a motion to a approve this notice of intent i'll make a motion to approve the NOI after the fact or does I know what we just as the Yeah I'll make a motion approve the NOI
second all in favor i I excellent thank you very much we'll have some paperwork to you um shortly you're welcome uh next up is uh continuation this is for the city of river um 15 uh Everin
Street Bennington Street Frederick's Park project uh this is with the supplemental borings and veric verification of resource areas uh at this time I'd like to read into record a an email sent by John Chu um on March
24th I participated in a site walkd down to confirm the delineation of the wetland resources for the Bennington Frederick's Park project file number 0610838 in in attendance were Taylor Donovan and Scott Morrison of VHB your
um Bernardo and John Shu and L baker uh in in John's opinion the drawings prepared by VHB titled Resilient Bennington Street and Frederick's Park C1 and C2 dated February 14th 2025 represent the boundaries of the resource
areas uh at this time um Bernardo if you'd like to speak on this thank you Mr chairman uh yes um so um we went to the the site visit and um
um my um my opinion is that all the perimeter and the area was well marked and established mhm so um so I think u you know we can approve the the the lineage
were there any corrections or flags that were not where they were supposed to be or everything was exactly as it yeah just following the just trying to get a indication of what you observed yeah so the based on the soil
and you know what we saw and and the site a little correction was uh done on the parking uh by the by the back of uh the school okay uh but that was uh pretty much
uh the the only thing that we saw but they did the correction i think it's reflected in the in the plans that they just submitted okay we're having some difficult technical difficulties but just bear with us a moment here
thank you [Music] uh yeah there you I think we're having some technical difficulties but we'll be right with you i think everyone has a hard copy anyway um El Baker open space environmental planner in the rev office
of planning and community development uh we're here back again um on a continuation for the resilient Bennington Street and Frederick's Park project um we're here with an NOI for approval of the borings um it'll be
approximately two in the footprint of Frederick's Park and then um we're also here for the approval of wetland and I think you you've just heard from Bernardo um a brief update of
the sitewalk which was taking place on March 24th March 24th and so we're here for back again for the continuence and hoping for an approval to move forward and from VHB thank you hi yes thank you
El my name is Taylor Donovan i'm an environmental scientist with VHB i'm not sure if we're going to be up and it's pretty much the same as last time i had just added um as Bernardo mentioned there were a few flags that we moved um from the initial plan which was submitted um highlight on the on the
slides from last time but um essentially as he mentioned um just based on you know we had done the delineation last year and then site so then um when going out to ref flag for the sitewalk we noticed um there were just a few areas where
really more appropriately delineate the boundary of the wetland um and as he mentioned it was primarily areas that were adjacent to apartments so it's the area um on the norththeast corner of the lot we kind of pulled the line in a little bit so just
um it really excludes some areas of gravel ponding um or puddling there's no soils there or vegetation established um and then in the southeast corner of the parking lot where there's um that drainage that connects to the marsh
itself um pulled the line farther away from the edge of the parking lot so um those are the two areas i'm happy to point them out on a planet if anyone want me to yeah I apologize I can't pull it up on the screen but um those were the two changes to the wetland lines and
then we did also find um it's hard to easily accessible but um Sales Creek uh there is a densely developed area um established um by the secretary of the um the EA so allows afford sales creek or
reduced riverfront area under the wetlands protection act so um the riverfront area was reduced from the 200 foot which is standard as allowed by the DDA and we did provide um the designation letter and a rough um map showing the rough
outlines or the the rough boundary of that to I know John and L received it i'm not sure if I made it all to all of the commissioners but okay great thank you yes so those are the two changes from last time um any
So this is definitely pretty straightforward the borings I I know you'll definitely be reducing or trying to mitigate the impact you on these uh on the lands over there and um I don't have any further questions i'd like to open it up to the audience if they have
any uh any opponents um if you'd like to I just have a question if you could come up Yeah if you could come up to the sorry if you could state your name and Cindy Baxter from Friends of Bell Ale Marsh my
only question is whether the slides could be made available to the public since they can't be pulled up of course yeah this was the last meeting that we had that you had the slides it's on it's it is up on the website that you can view it you can view presentation
entirey but that would be great the corrections to the delineation we could always make public to you as well yeah okay that's great i sometimes I have but I appreciate that thank you that's it um seeing no more questions or no
opposition uh to this project i'd like to close out the hearing so I'd like a motion to close the hearing make a motion to close out the hearing second second all in favor i excellent um so hearing hearing no opposition about
this and you have definitely done your due diligence I would like to put forth uh to call for a motion to approve this notice of intent make a motion to approve the NOI second second all in favor i excellent um thank
you very much thank you apologize for the trouble with No it's it's okay it these things happen technology is great until it doesn't work all right uh next up is a notice of intent D file number 061083761 McKinley Street this is uh
being done by Arm Construction LLC and this is demolition of existing structure and construction of a duplex on the property located in land subject to coastal storm flowage open up the hearing is it there you are there we go uh good evening members of the board my
name is Paul Fino i'm with PJF and Associates i'm here on behalf of John Deoian who is the um applicant and the owner of the property located at 61 McKinley Street uh this property is located at the end of um McKinley Street
in the But the existing house has been torn if you pull it back a little bit face it that way and then it also can get on this camera too okay property is located at the end of Mckenley Street and the butts Atwood
Avenue the existing house has been torn down um to make way for the construction of the new single family dwelling uh duplex sorry um this property is located within the 100redyear flood plane which is elevation 14 the elevation 12 I'm
sorry and the elevations of the spot bes anywhere from about 3 ft to about a little over 4 and 1/2 ft so it's a gentle slope from McKinley Street down to Atwood Avenue the applicant is proposing to construct a two family dwelling on the
site we are going to be keeping the finished floor at elevation 14 so it'll be 2 ft above flood elevation the top of foundation will be set at about 11.8 so we have about 1.2 ft between the top foundation and the finished floor
there'll be garages underneath the houses we'll have um paved driveways coming in off of Atwood Street and the rest of the site will be landscaped right now the site does have a hoy bales and silk fence around the perimeter of the property and also the catch basins
in the Atwood Street area do have the uh silk bags in them already any questions uh any questions from the commissioners yeah Mr through you Mr yeah um is this is there a um has this been already
taken out the you said the building has been taken down but is it excavated also no the existing house and foundation have been removed and that was it is there an excavation site next to this no i went down there on Monday and I I'm I
was confused i I saw an area that looked like quite frankly a rather deep hole in the ground with a pipe going across that was that was where the house was it was a tiny house yeah it wasn't a big place yeah right so So it's So it's
excavated now i mean it's holy it's gone it's gone it was taken down during the um during the winter what is that pipe there's a pipe out here out the front that's actually for a sore ejection pipe that went out into McKinley Street yeah
it looks pretty substantial pipe it looks more than just for one house no uh I think the only pipe I saw was the one that handled the ejection pump for the that was in the basement of the house yeah it was a 6 in cast that was coming
out of the ground massive okay thank you this actually finished um the house will have there'll be 10 f um flow through vents the uh smart fence and our similar
be installed four across the back two on the sides and one and two in the front there'll also be one installed in between the connections between the two buildings to allow for flow that's over 2,000 square ft of the area requirement and the building footprint is around
1900 okay Mr chair any other questions go ahead mr here and the the exit and the garages will be towards the there is a tree right or how how will be facing if you're in in the
street like if I take that how is it going to be the end project for the cars to get out of the garages come in here so we're set back enough for cars to be in here and also 24 ft off the street okay and the tree that is there in the front the tree that's out here will be
coming down because that's actually right here where the deck Anything else are the driveways going to be permeable pavers or asphalt i'm looking at asphalt the reason being there's almost a there's a reduction actually between what's existing now what was existing
the house and all the pavement this area here was all pavement and house and now with this construction we're allowing for the storage of any water flood storage to be actually in the house from the basement area and the
drive the two driveways are much less than what was um out there now and the majority of the plan will be or the plot will be land grass area yes okay good i I would just say is we went to uh
to the site from what it was you know of obviously you could tell what the home was in the small area to what the land is there's so much land there that there's some some areas some streets where someone wants to build a duplex and you're like this is going to be an albatross to everybody around it's not
going to fit into the neighborhood looking at the street looking at this looking at how everything's set up I think this would be good for the for the street and um I think that they've listened to everything we had to say as far as given the the silt all of it that I think it's going to be a good addition be my opinion to the rest of the
commission and and the majority of the neighborhood is already duplexes it's not as if they're putting in a multi-unit in all single families as well just to give a little bit more background
um at this time I'd like to open it up to any of anyone in the audience uh for or against this project hearing none um and if please takes me a while to get I'll give it a second next time sorry
angela Garino Suway 5 counselor um I have no problem with this project at all um there was a complaint at the beginning with somebody they were worried about the traffic the construction but everything seems to have worked out with that and then other than that um I think it's going to be a great addition to the neighborhood mhm
thank you i I think it will certainly beautify it um have you identified I didn't see it in the plans but have you identified any lay down areas for um construction materials and things of that nature no probably use the driveway areas those driveway areas will be for stockpiling and so forth and any
excavated material will probably go in towards what's the existing uh foundation was and then other material will be trucked off site there'll be no filling of the site grades will be kept as they are that that will make the neighbors happy we're in a flood plane so filled and I think it'll raise
everybody's property value as well so thank you thank you certainly thank you very much yeah certainly um hearing hearing no more opposition or um questions from the commissioners i'
like to call for a motion to close out the hearing make a motion to close the hearing second second all in favor i excellent um thank you very much thank um you've definitely done your due diligence
with what you're trying to accomplish here from the mailings to the notifications to everybody and people have been made aware um not changing the grade and keeping it above elevation adhering to city ordinance as well um I
don't see any reason why we shouldn't approve this project um and at this time I'd like to call for a motion to approve this notice of intent motion to approve the NOI second i second all in favor
thank you thank you very much seeing the finished product yeah me too okay uh last up is a notice of intent D file number 0610840 this is 30 Floyd Street and this
is a for a demolition of an existing structure and construction of a single family dwelling located in land subject to coastal storm flowage now we haven't had a chance to walk this down um and we will need to do that before we can confirm anything um
but I'll let you make your presentation open the hearing first uh good evening again my name is Paul Finocio with PJF and Associates i'm here on behalf of Kevin Charles who's the applicant for the property located at 30 Floyd Street uh this property has gone before the
board of appeals to construct a single family dwelling which was approved by the um board so presently the site consists of a single family dwelling a two family dwelling with a detached garage and under the new variance that
we applied for is this lot be cut basically in half with the two family remaining as it is and we're proposing a single family dwelling this property located in the 100redy year flood plane elevation 11 and we are proposing again to keep the first floor up at elevation
13 and the top of foundation around um 11 11.8 or so again for the elevation so we could have the floorboards between top foundation and finished floor there are six foundation openings in the structure which gives us 1,200 square ft
of storage area and the smart fence that we'll be using and we'll be using and also that the house is actually less than the,200 square ft so that's covered uh we are proposing a driveway two parking spaces along the easterly um
section of the property the remainder of the site will be grass and landscaping the existing garage will be taken down and that'll be our area for the stock pling material for the excavator and also for hauling out all
materials and we'll be proposing to install the hay bails and still fence along the perimeter of the property okay um any questions from the commissioners jim hi i was also down there on Monday
and I was talking to the gentleman uh who said that was his old shop that that shed that's being taken down mhm um right now on the uh on the side of the that building
that exists now uh he mentioned putting asphalt back there and I I mentioned pavers right now this is all concrete half of it's concrete and it's higher this is higher slightly higher that's going to be the parking area for the abunding lot for this lot here uh I was
told that the the cement part that's higher is staying no yes okay so then next to that is what concrete and that's the part that I I think the I was told is going to be at hot tub is
that right i would assume there going to be something be put in here yes because I had suggested that pavers would would be a probably a better fit in that area owners that you you you made you
you have the concrete area that's higher and that's going to make a natural kind of Yes there's a little slight there's about a six inch difference yeah it's almost like a gully there yeah yes they they seem he seemed to be favorable to that
the pavers no uh Yeah and it it's a small area also it's not very it's not very wide correct it is uh good afternoon i'm Kevin Childs and I'm the owner of 30 Floyd Street Madison Real Estate Group my address is 104
Summer Street in Revier resident here in River um so what we did in here where we're looking and I'm just trying to acclimate myself to the plan where we're at this is cement this is cement right here so what we're going to do is to
where there was no parking in here we created two more parking spaces that's what was u hardship or what we recommended to the zoning board of appeals they agreed that there was off- streetet parking because the actual garage that is there it's so small and the way that the garage was set up you
can't even put one of today's cars in here it's not deep enough you need 18 ft as a depth it it's not even that it's less so you you can't even pull a car in there and shut the garage door and so we said we would take this down and by taking this down there's all cement
that's under the garage that'll all be taken up that'll be grass and right now we have cement and it's two levels it's 6 in but we're just going to come back with stone pack and come in with a surface that's come in here probably hot top and merge the two so we have two
parking spaces here which would open up everything on this whole area where the current this is the current garage over here this will all be grass now in here and then we're going to put on this one here these two spaces were going to be the pavers so they'd be permeable to
have drainage for water so there'd be more permeable surfaces after what you're doing correct okay and then the foundation is capable of storing water as well so you don't lose any water storage on the property correct yes we'll have the flow through
vents will be installed at grade all right any other questions from the commissioners well the reason why I brought that up Mr chairman is that usually as a pattern uh the conservation only only allowed hot top asphalt in
areas that already had asphalt and uh any area that that didn't have that before we usually didn't allow it in in the in these areas that's why I that's why I brought this up if there if this was asphalt now then
if we follow the same pattern I would say okay you can put it asphalt back again but in as much as it's concrete and a little bit more and more permeable than the asphalt and and uh you know not not have the asphalt there now I was
hoping that you would put something like papers uh to not add to a new area well here's my question maybe you guys can inform me we do have cement in there it's it's a non-permeable surface so I I mean we could use a special hot top that becomes
permeable but we do have cement there right now i don't believe that to be a permeable surface no um so currently from the foundation of the second house all the way to the property line where the garage was that's all cement correct
so you would be adding an an similar impermeable surface existing i mean I I would love to see pavers in there truthfully myself just as Joe had had stated but um if it it is existing we kind of our hands are a
little tied but we would request when you come up to redo some work with that to kind of change the grade uh I'm sure you'll have to file because of where you're located in the flood plane um to do that work on that property so make sure you do that as well okay um and
that'll probably come against us as well and we'll probably make that suggestion to you at that time mhm so what we're saying here is I really don't want to get off track with the with the other property i just want to talk about where the work is being done right now um but
that's a story for another time so to speak u but it is something that I definitely am agreeing that we need it on our radar for sure okay thank you thank you very much appreciate it okay um so no more questions any
questions from the audience nope all right um hearing none I'd like to call for a motion to um actually no we can't close this out because we haven't done a site walkthrough so we are going to have to continue this because first off we do
need a site walkthrough uh for this project we're not going to be able to close it out tonight until we do that um I'd like to ask if our vice chair could maybe set something up during the day during the week to kind of expedite this um if any other commissioners would
like to give Brian a hand with this uh sitewalk down you can report back and we can close this out next month but we do have to we do have to get a site walk down okay we we can do this fairly sooner rather than later during the week we could it's easier for myself to do it
um owning my own business at table weekends stink for me but during the week so um we can be in touch I can give you my card and set something up with a time anytime anytime I can be there all right and I can email the entire conservation commission just say hey at this time we'll be there and set that up okay that's fine thank you yeah no not a
problem I just don't want to go the other route and and make a non-determination because and send it to the D or any of that I like to get this project moving as quickly as possible All right thank you appreciate it um but thank you for your time um we'll have to uh continue this till next month just
text me set up the time but uh thank you very much for your presentation and we look forward to seeing you again got it thank you uh so at this time we don't have any enforcement on the books um haven't heard anything and well I have heard a
few things but they haven't officially been made as an enforcement complaint uh as we stated earlier March 24th we did have a the site visit for Frederick's Park and Bennington Street and um that was pretty much it we thank you very
much for taking on the scheduling of the this next site walkdown uh at this time I'd like to open it up to any discussion does anybody have anything that they would like to add or discuss no okay um I thank you all for
your time and I'd like to call for a motion to adjurnn i'd make a motion to adjurnn all in favor or second second all in favor i I I thank you very much all right don't go anywhere we got to
sign some paperwork here