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Okay, ladies and gentlemen, it's now seven o'clock. We are going to start this meeting with the one o'clock.

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I will call it to order and start with introductions with Steve Aiken at the end representing the select board.

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Sure.

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Missing the Wittney.

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Dan Whitney.

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Next.

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Andrea Harper.

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Andrea Harper.

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And Bobbi.

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And Buttla Johnson James.

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Craig Griffin.

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John Colbert.

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Angelic.

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Lambrac.

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And.

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Thank you.

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We need to approve the minutes of July 28th, 2021.

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26.

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have a copy of them if you haven't seen them beforehand.

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I would like a motion to accept

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minutes as written. Yes.

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Thank you.

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May I have a second?

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May I have a second?

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I'll take it.

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Thank you.

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Is there any discussion?

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Hearing none, and like emotion, all those in favor say aye, aye, any opposed?

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Hearing none.

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Anne has to substate, she was not here, and Andrea was not here, even.

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They must have video for you.

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Yeah, there you go.

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Since there's nobody here, we have no public comments.

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Do we have any correspondence?

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First, thank you all for coming.

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Even though we have no applications.

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We do already have two applications for September, so don't get used to this.

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I did want to update you on a couple of things.

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One is we are quickly approaching zoning amendments season.

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So we had to discuss this at our last.

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So, we'll probably start doing workshops, come, fall.

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We had discussed this at our last zoning amendment, go around, but it just didn't make

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it into the text.

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But changing the accessory apartment calculation to just be 50% of the primary dwelling living

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space.

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It's like a 40% calculation now, but it includes the ADU and the single family dwelling square

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So you kind of have to know what you want to build, do the calculations, see if it comes up.

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If not, you have to do it again, like, you know, back into it.

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So it's a lot more straightforward and easier to just take 50%.

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The shoreline district, we have been hearing from the ZEA.

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We've also talked about this and we've heard from the Conservation Commission about doing a 50-foot setback from the shoreline.

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Meredith established a 60 foot, a 60 sorry, 65 foot set back, prior to DES having any

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shoreline protection or set back from the lakes. So we've had 65 for a long time. And we've

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yeah, 65 feet Meredith from the shoreline. And so DES has 50 feet and we've heard from a lot

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of people that they would like to see 50 feet, 50 feet would be easier if we match the state,

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conservation commissions like why would we have why would we want to relax our regulations on the

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shoreline or quality is important. So there were some discussions last year about maybe putting

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some protections in place along with reducing the setback to 50 feet. Those discussions are continuing

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and so that's another potential zone amendment. The last one is looking at central business density

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requirements.

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And I guess we'll get into that more when we reconvene and seeing if possibly we didn't

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have a density limitation in the central business district.

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We have a height limitation, we have a lot of coverage limitation, stepbacks, parking

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requirements.

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So in the end of the day, those are really more of the limiting factors.

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And so maybe we allow as much density as you can fit if you're able to still operate in

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parameters of the parking and the lock coverage and the setbacks.

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So that's up for discussion.

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There's some supporting stuff in that follows that that actually

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Stephanie put together because she's going to be a part of this

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as well because she's staffing the conservation commission

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and meeting with them monthly and also the ZBA.

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And so the last thing I wanted to update you on is there is now

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a community plan implementation committee that meets monthly and they have been working on

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the implementation matrix just to populate that with what's happening with each action

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item if it is a long mid or near term goal and the importance of that, I mean not go but

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and the importance of that item on a scale of 1 to 10.

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And so I've been working with department heads,

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conservation commission and town manager

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to get that all filled out.

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And we are very near the end of doing that.

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We have just a handful more.

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If anybody wants to see any of those updates,

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once it's completed, I'll be posting it online.

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I do have a couple of copies of the matrix

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This was from our last meeting, so it does have some updates coming.

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They just haven't been entered.

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If anybody's interested in looking at that, brought a couple of copies.

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Let me know.

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You can take one home.

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These are the action items, like the long, long list of action items.

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It has responsible party and partners.

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Yep,

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pages and pages.

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Some of them have been complete.

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Some of them have been complete.

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Yeah.

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And that's all I have.

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If anybody has any questions, you're obviously

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Welcome to sit in on any of those implementation committee meetings if you'd like it is a subcommittee of the planning board

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That's it. I don't know if anybody has any questions, but that's all the business that we have

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We'll probably have a workshop a separate meeting to discuss those and invite the zoning board and possibly conservation commission when we're talking about the

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50 foot set back

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Now this is just a little food for thought

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Anybody have anything to add to that?

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to keep the light better and then to change those types of lines.

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Thanks, one point.

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We did a tour of the water plane a few years ago,

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like the comment was because the pipes

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only 30 feet below them because of the cyanobacteria.

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I mean, that's a real concern.

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It just means less grass-taking growth.

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There we go.

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We'll see what we

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can do.

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We'll see what we can do.

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Well, it's just nothing else.

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I will call this meeting adjourned and put it in the category.

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and the shoulders going we've got to head.

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We got something in the top two.

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I do appreciate you all showing up.

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Nice to meet you.

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All right.

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Richard used to hold up.

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That's it.

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That's it.

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You can go back to work now.

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Yep.

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Well, that was cool.

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So you driving?

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Yeah.

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I started last week.

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I went up and down.

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I mean, I couldn't put any pressure.

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I didn't deal with shit.

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No kidding.

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So when you woke up, because when you are...

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It's broken right across here.

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Okay