um I move to open the meeting second um pulling the members Darlene yes John John Paige oh you're muted [Music] John how about that yes okay
Victoria yes uh Robert you're muted as well Robert there you go and I'll vote Yes okay we're open for business so I think the first item was to look at
the um which which [Music] um the minutes yep the minutes we're looking to approve from 11214 yeah the six pages and I didn't get any comments from
anybody so if you notice anything now I'm happy to a lot of it was the decision that we made so um I read them I move to approve the minutes of 11212 24 I also read it and I
second that second okay all right following the members Darlene yes Don yes Vicki yes and Robert yes and I'll vote Yes as well
okay motion carries that's squares the minutes yep then um TR to think of what else here looks like there's a mandatory referral for 324 Main
Street yeah what's happening there uh they yeah the applicant has submitted their application for a site plan review uh with the planning board and they are also submitting their storm water management permit uh application permit permit
application sorry to tomorrow is as we speak um so that's all coming in uh we're going to have a consultant do a peer review on the storm water um and Town Council will be assisting the planning board similar to his role
assisting the zba so and that was very timely because I was out for the decision yes um so that's that I don't have any comment on that yeah it's the same plan you looked
at what's at 324 Main Street I can't remember the gas station gas gas station oh the gas station oh my God yeah we just gave them a permit for a special I think we beat that one to death so yeah
did so your decision of November um is part of their application packet but you're still a mandatory referral for the planning board so I will simply if it's okay with the board I will simply put C cbaa decision
dated fair enough no comment if that's appropriate on the uh okay that's good that's because it's a special permit it has to go mandatory okay yeah y exactly yeah so
now what else are we looking at here my God look at all that stuff my God all right the the next thing on 2.2 was the um it looks like they approved the
accessory dwelling unit on at the time I wasn't able go to that town meeting in January okay we know be do you want to tell us about it and then yeah um so as you know the state had um changed the
the bylaws about adus and um it's by right and so we the town was no longer able to issue a special permit as was your job uh for many years uh for an Accel accessory dwelling
unit um now the law has changed quite a bit uh it is now not just for a family member it does now have to be not you know it doesn't have to be affordable it doesn't you can't have a special permit associated with it um but in this change
if you will um it's a very different animal from what it was Townsen decided Well the planning board decided to sort of work out a process for um accessory dwelling units being constructed did um
with a um sort of outside of the criteria of what's allowed in the state law um in in this case it would have to be um they they created a site plan review if you're going to construct an accessory dwelling unit that is an
addition to an existing house or an uh a new outbuilding um in a new out building um you would need to go through a simple site plan review uh very basic at a public meeting no a butter notification
it's just a review um of the application uh there are waivers built into it so the applicant doesn't need to spend money on a certified drawing they simply request the river and the decision
process is abbreviated so it's just another way to you know and you know to to sort of have a little bit of look at the project is there a parking space you know this is not going to be an in-law it's going to be another family you know
so thinking about that and you know it's a different animal when you're renting if you will to a public you know um tenants should be aware and I think you know some education on that might be good too you know it you know not everybody's familiar with rental
property but they might think well this is a good idea idea to make income but there's a lot of rules and regulations so so it's kind of like an approval not required the way the planning board does now they just make sure that it fits the criteria but they as long as it fits the
criteria they can't say no it's exactly and most of the projects will just be going through and getting their building permit so if it's like an Adu within the house existing house then it's just a building permit um if it's it within an existing out building same thing it's
it's going to be just a building permit so we're working at the process now with the building department but um I am putting together the zoning board has nothing to do with these anymore that category that's off right yeah yeah but I would still like to reach out to you
you know with the expertise of working over the years and have you review the application process that we come up with and the permitting process and you know stuff like that if if the board would review what we put together that I'd be really
grateful one of the things you might want to do is is have a sample lease for people to look at oh yeah I don't know I talked to Town Council about that I I I don't know if I would go there being in
real estate believe and I'm a landlord um yeah I belong to the landlord Northern West County Landlord Association too and thank God I'm in the business of real estate and I've had a lot of classes too because you just
can't learn enough about um tenant Lord law so I would I'd be careful about giving sample documents maybe send them to um give be the resource of the resource if you will and and who people
who provide forms and that kind of thing yeah yeah um but I would definitely you know how like we did with the um the building inspector and we made the applicant fill in all the like this is the square footage the you know the ratios something like that for the
application for the building inspector would be really helpful I think yeah okay great and I actually have started on that so I have a draft I can I can send out to you that's my opinion yeah exactly okay perfect I just you know there's a huge
difference between renting to a family member and some random guy off the street so if you're not you know you might want to say uh you know please talk to a real estate agent about a lease yeah yeah or or even a a community
uh information session you know what I mean we're all going to learn this new bylaw and you know as staff as board members um you know maybe there could be some sort of something put together for the general public with those important you got paint laws to comply with you've
got social um security deposit there's just so much involved in how to qualify people and and be fair fair housing there's just so much to it you people get in trouble so easy something as simple as a different address so what
are we G to have apartment onea or let's say 40 Mason Road we're gonna have what 40a for the accessory dwelling unit and 40 for the Mason I mean all these little things have to be you know worked out the good news is the planning board has
to solve that and the accessors right and the building department here's here's another thing I could see down the road people think that this gives them the right to all of a sudden Airbnb an apartment um because they're allowed to do it and airbnbs are looked at as
commercial Enterprises not renting longterm so there the transient nature and then there's the tenant nature so that's going to be something else we're gonna see oh we're going to see the consequences of this until it throwing pains and then comes along
and we'll have our overlay District yay but I did put in late I just dropped into your uh meeting packet and uh what I do for the planning board and it's a administrative report so you guys can read that at your leisure I
just wanted to update you on all the stuff going on in land use including a recent staff change or as of tomorrow staff change uh the land use coordinator is leaving um moving on and um as so
that leaves the vacancy for the land use coordinator and the administrator at this time so it's me and um Kobe Sher who is the conservation agent um in land use so hopefully
okay okay is that all we had to do I think that's it wait I got one more thing I I have something I want to add in there so um I've been serving on this board for 30 years there like 1995 rings a bell
okay um my term ends in June yeah so what I'd like to do is not ask to be put back on for another fiveyear term but if needed maybe I'll go associate for you to help out kind of thing but I'm
looking to kind of wind it down a little yeah I don't want to leave you hanging but yet you can't stay here forever and expect you know people AR we so we need to put the word out that we need people to to apply
and yeah oh yeah you guys heard special town meeting um on March 10th right is peil doing one the same night yes and I heard Ashby too so that'll be interesting so
is this all about the school again asking for money yes and the I I believe so it's an override but the other thing I want to mention was the fall town meeting Article 19 which was proposed amendments to the age restricted development was um
left dangling basically somebody started talking and then somebody called a quorum count and um the meeting was dissolved so um the moderator did not make a specific statement about article
19 so you will be seeing it um as article one on March 10th uh those amendments are on the warrant and that's the first article of the night so if you have any input or any interest in you know voting one way or another I know
that that was a bylaw that um that the zoning board had opined on in the past and and has had discussions about I can tell you that there have been three age restricted developments um projects approved by the planning
board and the reasons for the amendments are um just finding what works as any bylaw you know they try to to adjust it and keep what works and uh Delete what doesn't so um I don't think any of you made the public hearing on this but I
just wanted to update you um if you can make it to March 10th and that needs to be so normally we do our annual and special town meeting in May so that March is just a couple months before it the March agenda can't
wait until May they need to do it well the reason they did it was because of the way it was left hanging at fall toown meeting literally the meeting was dissolved so the planning board put a lot of time and money you know into putting these this article
forward and I this and so I um Council and the clerk and it yeah it it was allowed to be put back on for March 10th and so you know we just thought it was fair considering that we made the investment of the public hearing and the
cost of this and time and effort so I mean maybe it won't you know there could be floor amendments and things like that CH loves loves the discussion there's so many meeting last year there was so many meetings people the public
General Public's confused they don't understand we know it's normal twice a year but then there's more and there's more and you don't get a quorum so it's postponed or or whatever can't finish business so people are a little confused yeah yeah I know there are still a lot
of seats open in this on the annual election on April 28th which is a side note so if anybody wants to run there's a plenty of seats open on planning and other committees Okie do all right
thanks so much all right you g to close meeting or good all right I moved to close the meeting at 655 I think second uh polling the members Darlene
yes John yes Vicki yes Robert yes and I'll vote Yes okay thanks everybody