Good evening everyone. I'm Robert Duran. I'm co-chairing for Andrew Shepard. Um for tonight's meeting, it's uh scheduled at 6:30 p.m. Sleman's
Chambers. Um I'd like to uh call the meeting to order and um introduce the members of the board to you. Uh, Carol Hoses present. >> Brett King present.
>> Robert Theion present. >> And Andrew Shepard present. >> Um, can we have a pledge to the >> I aliance to the United States of America and to the republic for which it
stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. This uh this meeting is recorded and uploaded to town on YouTube channel and
uh he shares addition delions. Uh we can take 3.1 out of order >> uh to account for accommodate the tenants of engineer Timothy Grace.
>> He's not here yet. >> Is Timothy here? >> Not yet. Not yet. >> Okay, we're continuing with the regular meeting. Um, we want to review a draft of the in interim report of Thton Towns and
economic development strategy. Is that you, Brooke? >> No. Um, you can just do the minutes. >> Huh? >> The minutes. >> The minutes. >> You want >> 1.5? Want to review the minutes of December? >> Oh, yes. Um, like anyone want to review
the minutes of our last meeting? >> I looked at them online. I don't know if anyone else >> I did, too. >> Okay. >> I didn't see any exceptions. >> All in favor accepting those minutes? >> I could make a motion. >> Roll call first and second.
>> Okay. So, I'll make a motion to approve the minutes of December 8th, 2025. >> Um, I second that motion. Robert. >> Okay. I think we get a vote. >> Should we take a vote? >> Carol. Okay. Carol Hop says, "Yes."
>> King, yes. >> Robert, yes. Andrew >> Shepard, yes. >> Thank you. >> Um, >> 635 >> the ANR plan and application. We have a
ANR plan and application for 16 South Street uh to create one lot and one parcel. Is anybody here want to present that? >> Yes. How you doing? >> And you are, sir? >> My name is Jason Goyette. >> I'm sorry.
>> Jason Goyette. >> Jason >> from Ry. >> Okay. Thank you, Jason. uh tonight um representing for um the owners of the Lex manufacturing um operations and the plan was prep
prepared for um the Townson Historical Society. Um so what we're doing is we're creating one lot um as you saw in the plan um that lot has the minimum frontage and area requirements and um
part of this is we're also creating parcel A which is to be retained by the L corporation. >> All right. Do you want to show us this? >> So the original deeds there was this deed here.
>> Mhm. um which was parcel 2 in the larger deed to the Lux Corporation. So, and then the Lux Corporations also owned this this parcel and this parcel in a separate deed. >> Mhm. >> So, what we're doing is is we're combining these two parcels which they're written here. They're going to
be old lot line and it references the deed booking page >> and this one here and we're combining those two into one lot >> and then we're separating this lot and it's going to be retained by deluxe. That's why there's a note C note two. It says it's not a viable building lot at
this time. >> Which one? >> This is parcel A. >> Okay. >> So, lot one is a viable lot because it has the frontage and area requirements. >> Okay. >> All right. Brett, do you have any questions? >> No. No. Is parcel A. Is that where Deluxe is now or No.
>> So, the the Deluxe is back here. This is the old house that's on and all the the land in the back is >> Okay. >> So, >> it's a little gray house. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> This is currently owned by who? >> Deluxe. >> Deluxe. >> Oh, it's owned by You're basically just
doing some house cleaning, it seems, right? >> Yep. Yeah. They're just cleaning this up and they're going to make one lot and that's um but the plan was prepared for the Towns and Historical Society. >> And then this is a separate deed. And then this is and it's going to be retained by Deluxe. Yes. >> And then this, of course, Deluxe is
operating with >> Y. Any comments, Carol? >> No, I looked at it online. >> Andrew, are you familiar with this? >> I looked it all over. I did not have any questions. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And I drive by it every day, so I
kind of knew where it was. >> All right. Um, any other comments? No, sir. >> Um, can I have a motion to
uh accept the presentation? >> I'll make a motion to accept the um ANR plan and application for 16 South Street to create one lot and one possible. >> Can you just endorse >> endorse
>> endorse the plan? Okay. Thank you. Okay. Make a motion to endorse the ANR plan and application 16 South Street to create one lot and one parcel. >> I'll second. >> Seconded by Brett. >> Okay.
>> Shall we take a vote? >> Daryl Hoses. Yes. >> Brett King. Yes. >> Andrew. >> Andrew Shepard. Yes. >> Robert Darren, yes. Good. I'm signing.
Oh, do we need to sign it? >> Okay, this is the pen this side. >> It's on. >> Okay. >> So, um, unfortunately, like I said, you can't take it tonight. I'll make sure we get it to you tomorrow. >> Thank you so much.
>> Have a good night. >> Welcome, Harley. >> Thank you. My apologies. >> We're going to proceed to 2.2 Two, discuss and review draft interim report for the towns and he economic
development strategy. anyone that >> I think, you know, as I said in my email, if you guys have a chance to go through that report, the MRPC closes down any or revisions or any of their work by the
31st. So, if you have suggestions, comments, you know, um, email them to me, >> okay? and I'll pass them along to MRPC, but there's only a couple of weeks where they'll be able to do anything with that plan.
>> I did watch the video. >> Oh, you did? Yeah, >> I did. It was actually pretty good. >> So, I'm really hard hearing. >> Oh, it's okay. No, I was just saying, you know, you you saw the presentation last Monday. >> Yes. He he told you at that point that you know it's an interimm draft and that
you know he really wants you guys to make it your own plan. Um the their role closes down on December 31st. So anything that you want to see in there or you don't you know you like you don't like whatever send me an email and I'll
you know I'll work with them okay >> on whatever you want. Did anyone have any comments on that? >> Um, I uh I did contact uh Dave Fioli,
the executive director of TCA, explain the situation to him. I'm waiting to hear back from him. As far as the level or extent of TCA's involvement in this proposal, I'll I'll have to wait to hear back from from him. Um, and uh, you
know, I I told him that I'd be perfectly happy to uh, get involved with something like this and uh, you know, we'll we'll see how it goes from TAM's uh, point of view. Um, just to let everyone know, I work for TCAM,
>> so I hope there's no conflict of interest here. Uh, but uh, I would uh, I would certainly like to be a part of this if if possible. I will wait to hear back from Dave and hear what he has to say and we'll we'll go on from there.
>> Correct. >> I thought you were weren't you nominated to be part of this group? >> No, >> I don't believe so. No. >> No. >> Was I? >> Yeah. This will be um for disc up for discussion um at the select board
meeting on the 18th which is Thursday night, right? So they have it on their agenda for more discussion and maybe some more feedback. >> Have all the nominations been submitted here? >> Oh, I'm sorry. Nominations for what?
>> For the u the preservation act group. >> Oh, the >> Oh, the conservation preservation act. >> I don't I don't know about Yeah, I don't know. Um >> you if if you're a nominee, if they've
done anything, you should be contacted by the town clerk or somebody that >> usually I get a letter from the town saying I was appointed to the property, >> right? >> Property whatever it's called. >> So I got a letter actually
>> telling me that it was done deal. >> So you should be getting something when it's a done deal. They haven't. >> I don't think they've done anything yet with it. >> No. Brett, have you gotten anything? >> No. >> Mr. Chairman, if I may, maybe I can clarify
>> this for you. Uh we the select board on Thursday will meet and we have an appointment for Robert as the cemetery and parks committee representative and we have an appointment for this is for the uh com
um community for preservation committee and then we have an appointment for Kobe Strereer as an atlarge member to the community preservation committee. That's all I have for that committee to be appointed
uh for Thursday. Did you say was Brett or Heart Lady nominated for something? >> Uh Brett I No, I don't think I was nominated for anything. >> No, Beth would verify Lance wasn't here.
>> No, it was Lance. Wait a minute. I I take that back. I'm I I take that back. >> Was Lance was appointed >> the last meeting. >> Okay. Thank you very much. I was confused. Thank you. >> You're right. It was
>> Mr. Chair. Um you can see uh Timothy Grace from Tegan Bond is here about the certificate of completion. >> So that's 3.1. >> 3.1. >> Yeah. 3.1. Let's see.
>> Yeah. 3.1. >> Yep. Letter to the Tom from Timothy Grace Tai and Bond Inc. because they're looking for the certificate of completion for arbitrage treatment the
treatment plant. It's a request for certificate of completion. Okay. So, we have a request for a certificate of completion. Uh, Harbor Terrace Water Treatment
Plant. Um, I'll read this to you. Dear Mr. Shepherd, members of the board, behalf of the town water department, behind barn submitting their request for certificate completion for the construction of the storm water management system at the harbor t trace
water treatment plant uh at 25 harbor terrace or in town as described here in the work was completed in general conformance with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection storm water
handbook and the towns and storm water bylaws and regulations. I'm not going to read the entire document here. Um, and do we know who certified the request for
substantial completion? Yeah, Timothy Grace um the professional engineer has um well, can I read the conclusion for his letter? So, >> would you mind if I did that?
>> Robert's going to read the conclusion from the letter. Is that okay? >> Okay. >> Okay. In conclusion, as presented herein, the towns and water department has completed this project in a manner consistent with the interests of the mass department of environmental
protection, storm water handbook, and the towns and storm water bylaw and regulations. We will contact the land the town's land use department to schedule a final inspection and once that has occurred, apply for the certificate of completion with the planning board. So there is one more
step and they're acknowledging that >> but they have everything else they need. They have the asbuilt plans that are before you and this letter requesting the certificate. So once they are, you know, schedule that um that site
inspection, they're going to get back to you and and make a final request. >> So um yeah, if you have any questions, the engineer's here. I see the uh asville plans is submitted
um was stamped and dated on December 12th. >> Uh December 11th, I'm sorry. >> Uh Lewis Arasco, civil engineer. So he's obviously accepted the as built conditions. Um
the interim report was prepared on December 8th. It's appears to be it's a draft report. Do we have a final one? >> Oh, that's that's a different project. That's not the storm water management
project. That's the economic development. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Right now, I just want to ask the engineer any question you have about the storm water project, the storm water uh harbor trace project. >> As far as I can see, everything's been
reviewed and approved and accepted. >> You've reviewed it, Beth? >> I have. Yeah. >> So, anyone want to make a motion to uh accept their requests for certificate? No, you can't do that yet. Remember,
there's one more step >> that they have to >> subject to >> the Well, you can do that subject to the final inspection. However, if there's findings on the final inspection, it's going to come back and require more voting. So, I would just say that you
>> you have received the request for the certificate and leave it at that. That's my recommendation. >> All right. I would like to note that the planning board has received the request and our review of what's been submitted
appears to be all in order. And I'll conclude that statement. Okay, >> that's great. >> And do you have any questions for the engineer or are you all set? >> I don't. >> Anyone else? Brett.
>> No, sorry. Not Thank you. Okay. Um um do you have the correspondence? >> Indeed I do. Thank you. Okay. This is from the Town of Shirley Zoning
Board of Appeals. The Town of Shirley's Zoning Board of Appeals will conduct a public hearing at 7 p.m. on Monday, January 5th, 2026 at the Town Office Building, 7 KD Way, Shirley, Massachusetts.
A public hearing for section 3.2 3.4.2 2 C2 of the protective zoning bylaws relating to minimum side yard setback 15 ft for the construction of a shed.
The parcel is located at 23 Chapel Street, Shirley, Massachusetts. Parcel ID 1586 in the R3 district. Copy of this application can be obtained from the town clerk.
Town of PEP roll of appeals notice of public hearing application has been submitted by Mr. Robbins Faron Robbins PC on behalf of Woodland Ridge LLC seeking a 40B comprehensive permit to develop a
residential development on 45.5 acres of land located between Braftoft Street and Orian Road or Orion Road. The proposed development consists of 40 single family homes containing 32-bedroom
homes and eight threebedroom homes. A public hearing in person only will be held on this matter at the Albert Harris Center, 37 Road, Prol, Massachusetts on Wednesday, January 7th, 2026 at 7 PM.
The comprehensive permit application is available for review at the planning office at the PEO town hall at one main street pepper Massachusetts or via our online permitting system open gov
u the u the website address peppermortal.openggov.com opengv.com and research record number-to5-2 town of Shirley Planning Board decision
of the planning board for the special permit and site plan review applications of Lancaster Road Holdings LLC 53 Midland Drive Walam Massachusetts applicant Lancaster Road Holdings LLC C
53 Midland Drive, Waltham, Massachusetts. Property address 114 Lancaster Road, Shirley, Massachusetts 01464. We vice chair Olki. I hope I'm pronouncing that name correctly. asked for a motion. Motion
made by Ms. Ty to approve the special permit submitted by Lancaster Road Holdings LLC 53 Midland Drive all Massachusetts for the proposed pickle ball club at 114 Lancaster Road with the
following findings. Findings follow and uh that appears to be the extent of the correspondence tonight. >> Thank you. Any comments on the correspondence about that? Do we have a administrative report?
>> I just have one update and it is about um uh the storm water uh management permit at 108 Fitsburg Road. Uh there I just wanted to note that we did receive a
email from the engineer um with everything they're required to be in in compliance. They have um put in a driveway. They've made some temporary sedimentation basins and um they're all set out there. So I just want to update
the board on that. >> Great job. >> That's correct. >> Great job. Um any new uh >> speak did we do the route 119 corridor analysis? >> What's that?
>> 2.3 discuss review the route 119. >> Oh yes. Do you have a chance to look at what got submitted? >> I did. didn't look like the same. >> I do have >> Okay, go ahead.
>> We uh I heard back I think it was today from the state's engineer and Sullivan and we have a tentative meeting between Beth uh myself, Kieran, hopefully Jim Smith, the highway superintendent uh from Monday, December 29th. So I think
like we said last meeting, we don't have the main objective here is just to kind of figure out what the state's appetite is and potential scale and scope on their end before there's anything anything official or anything concrete or uh anything specific. So nothing, you
know, that's kind of the next small step. I uh >> and if you'd like to watch the uh MJTC presentation that went on last Wednesday, I put the link in the folders so you can watch the way they present
it. >> Dorby, >> I looked at the uh the report that you had amended in the package there. Mhm. >> Um and um it identified a lot of issues in that
area. >> Yeah. >> Number of crashes, >> volume of vehicles, types of vehicles. >> Um then um the uh travel speeds that were there.
>> Um it was a pretty comprehensive review, I thought. Um >> and they proposed some schematic concepts there and a variety of alternatives that could be viewed and
studied. Um, I was not um I did not have the time to really evaluate each of the different considerations of formulated opinion or
anything, but um so far it looks pretty good. Did you all have a chance to look at that? >> I I didn't. Now, Beth, what where can I find this? This is about the 119. >> Yes, this one right here. >> Oh, okay. Right there. All right. That's the presentation there. >> But it's in your folder, too.
>> Okay. Can I take one? >> I'll show you how to get to it online. >> Okay. All right. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. So, yeah, we'll update everybody on at January 12th meeting. >> Okay. >> We meet with Mass. >> Okay.
>> Have a presentation at that point. >> No, we'll have an update. We're gonna meet with Mass D to find out, you know, just like Chair Chet said. >> What date is that? Uh your next meeting January 12th >> I won't be getting attendance. >> Okay. >> Um
>> yeah. >> So so so at that meeting the mass do people are going to be here? >> Nope. Nope. We have a meeting scheduled um a virtual meeting with Chair Shepard Karen Mian administrator myself MRPC rep
and then um Jim Smith from Highway. And it's a meeting just to understand jurisdictionally and you know what the state is going to talk about and it's a one it's a it's a state group so it's under the state jurisdiction.
>> Will will this be part of our regular meeting on January 12th? >> An update will be >> okay. What about the previous meeting that you just talked about? When will that be limited to the people you mentioned? Okay. because I was gonna ask if I could if I could join it, but if
it's limited to those those >> It's a conversation starter. Yeah, >> I understand. >> I just wanted to make sure I was fully updated on this because I >> I definitely would like to see some progress made on that. Uh >> yeah, chair Sharper will be updating everybody.
Yeah, >> sure. I think there's no no shortage of opportunities as this continues to make sure that uh we have everyone included and certainly as we move further down and get more information from the state,
you know, be able to uh you know, have more, you know, thought and um opinions and things like that and get everybody on board. >> Great. So, Beth, you'll send me this, right? >> Sure. It's already been uh transferred. >> Oh, okay. Well, I'll try to find it, too.
>> I'll show you how to find it. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Um, I have one question for you, too. There was another document with all the new statutes. >> Yes. >> From the uh the governor's office. >> Yes.
>> It was 155 pages or whatever. >> Okay. Um, so I didn't read it at all, but um, >> so that was a revised copy, an updated copy of the zoning act, the state zoning act with all the changes that had been
made, right? >> And that wasn't 150 pages. Uh, >> well, I saw your little >> the whole document included all the legislative articles and the deadline
extension dates and what I saw was not only the zoning article things, which I think this board is pretty well aware of already,
um, but there were also a lot of language um on the funding to developers to assist in affordable housing programs
um and um how the qualifications are and all that stuff. It was a little overwhelming for me to look at the whole thing, but um I I think uh you might want to take a
peek at that and and get some thoughts on it. Um um obviously it's all been passed and acted so not much to say about that.
Any other um death? What is this in my here about the rejected reports and stuff? >> That's the economic development right >> report that you already discussed. >> Okay. >> Yeah.
Talk about that this time. Are you going to send comments to me if you have any? >> Um, so that concludes the correspondence and administrative reports. Um any comments about
uh there's the uh 4.1 uh citizen planning training collaborative. Um I think you can contact uh Beth on all these different programs they have.
>> Sure. Um, and then if there's no other new business. >> That's it. >> Well, then I I'll take a motion to adjourn this meeting. >> I'll make January 12th. >> I'll make a motion to adjourn. It's
7:01. >> 7. Is that 7:01? I can't even read it. But whatever time it is, Beth1. >> 7:01. Yes. >> We did good. Well, somebody's going to second it. >> Second. I second.
>> Oh, you did? I did hear you. Okay. >> Okay. I say yes. >> We got a vote on it. >> We have to take a vote on this. Carol >> uh Carol House says, "Yes." >> Hardly pleasing. Yes. >> Anderson.
All right. Robert, yes. Thank you all.