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[0:17] Okay, ladies and gentlemen, it's now seven o'clock. We are going to start this meeting with the one o'clock.
[0:27] I will call it to order and start with introductions with Steve Aiken at the end representing the select board.
[0:36] Sure.
[0:38] Missing the Wittney.
[0:39] Dan Whitney.
[0:41] Next.
[0:41] Andrea Harper.
[0:42] Andrea Harper.
[0:43] And Bobbi.
[0:44] And Buttla Johnson James.
[0:46] Craig Griffin.
[0:47] John Colbert.
[0:49] Angelic.
[0:49] Lambrac.
[0:51] And.
[0:52] Thank you.
[0:55] We need to approve the minutes of July 28th, 2021.
[1:00] 26.
[1:01] have a copy of them if you haven't seen them beforehand.
[1:08] I would like a motion to accept
[1:10] minutes as written. Yes.
[1:19] Thank you.
[1:21] May I have a second?
[1:22] May I have a second?
[1:27] I'll take it.
[1:29] Thank you.
[1:31] Is there any discussion?
[1:34] Hearing none, and like emotion, all those in favor say aye, aye, any opposed?
[1:41] Hearing none.
[1:43] Anne has to substate, she was not here, and Andrea was not here, even.
[1:51] They must have video for you.
[1:53] Yeah, there you go.
[1:57] Since there's nobody here, we have no public comments.
[2:01] Do we have any correspondence?
[2:06] First, thank you all for coming.
[2:08] Even though we have no applications.
[2:10] We do already have two applications for September, so don't get used to this.
[2:16] I did want to update you on a couple of things.
[2:23] One is we are quickly approaching zoning amendments season.
[2:30] So we had to discuss this at our last.
[2:33] So, we'll probably start doing workshops, come, fall.
[2:39] We had discussed this at our last zoning amendment, go around, but it just didn't make
[2:44] it into the text.
[2:46] But changing the accessory apartment calculation to just be 50% of the primary dwelling living
[2:52] space.
[2:53] It's like a 40% calculation now, but it includes the ADU and the single family dwelling square
[3:00] So you kind of have to know what you want to build, do the calculations, see if it comes up.
[3:05] If not, you have to do it again, like, you know, back into it.
[3:09] So it's a lot more straightforward and easier to just take 50%.
[3:13] The shoreline district, we have been hearing from the ZEA.
[3:18] We've also talked about this and we've heard from the Conservation Commission about doing a 50-foot setback from the shoreline.
[3:24] Meredith established a 60 foot, a 60 sorry, 65 foot set back, prior to DES having any
[3:32] shoreline protection or set back from the lakes. So we've had 65 for a long time. And we've
[3:41] yeah, 65 feet Meredith from the shoreline. And so DES has 50 feet and we've heard from a lot
[3:48] of people that they would like to see 50 feet, 50 feet would be easier if we match the state,
[3:53] conservation commissions like why would we have why would we want to relax our regulations on the
[3:59] shoreline or quality is important. So there were some discussions last year about maybe putting
[4:06] some protections in place along with reducing the setback to 50 feet. Those discussions are continuing
[4:14] and so that's another potential zone amendment. The last one is looking at central business density
[4:21] requirements.
[4:25] And I guess we'll get into that more when we reconvene and seeing if possibly we didn't
[4:31] have a density limitation in the central business district.
[4:35] We have a height limitation, we have a lot of coverage limitation, stepbacks, parking
[4:40] requirements.
[4:41] So in the end of the day, those are really more of the limiting factors.
[4:45] And so maybe we allow as much density as you can fit if you're able to still operate in
[4:51] parameters of the parking and the lock coverage and the setbacks.
[4:55] So that's up for discussion.
[4:58] There's some supporting stuff in that follows that that actually
[5:03] Stephanie put together because she's going to be a part of this
[5:06] as well because she's staffing the conservation commission
[5:10] and meeting with them monthly and also the ZBA.
[5:15] And so the last thing I wanted to update you on is there is now
[5:19] a community plan implementation committee that meets monthly and they have been working on
[5:28] the implementation matrix just to populate that with what's happening with each action
[5:34] item if it is a long mid or near term goal and the importance of that, I mean not go but
[5:44] and the importance of that item on a scale of 1 to 10.
[5:49] And so I've been working with department heads,
[5:52] conservation commission and town manager
[5:56] to get that all filled out.
[5:59] And we are very near the end of doing that.
[6:02] We have just a handful more.
[6:04] If anybody wants to see any of those updates,
[6:07] once it's completed, I'll be posting it online.
[6:09] I do have a couple of copies of the matrix
[6:11] This was from our last meeting, so it does have some updates coming.
[6:17] They just haven't been entered.
[6:18] If anybody's interested in looking at that, brought a couple of copies.
[6:21] Let me know.
[6:21] You can take one home.
[6:24] These are the action items, like the long, long list of action items.
[6:29] It has responsible party and partners.
[6:32] Yep,
[6:35] pages and pages.
[6:35] Some of them have been complete.
[6:37] Some of them have been complete.
[6:39] Yeah.
[6:41] And that's all I have.
[6:42] If anybody has any questions, you're obviously
[6:44] Welcome to sit in on any of those implementation committee meetings if you'd like it is a subcommittee of the planning board
[6:53] That's it. I don't know if anybody has any questions, but that's all the business that we have
[7:01] 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
[7:09] 50 foot set back
[7:13] Now this is just a little food for thought
[7:30] Anybody have anything to add to that?
[8:09] to keep the light better and then to change those types of lines.
[8:17] Thanks, one point.
[8:21] We did a tour of the water plane a few years ago,
[8:23] like the comment was because the pipes
[8:25] only 30 feet below them because of the cyanobacteria.
[8:29] I mean, that's a real concern.
[8:37] It just means less grass-taking growth.
[8:39] There we go.
[8:42] We'll see what we
[8:48] can do.
[8:48] We'll see what we can do.
[8:56] Well, it's just nothing else.
[8:59] I will call this meeting adjourned and put it in the category.
[9:01] and the shoulders going we've got to head.
[9:05] We got something in the top two.
[9:10] I do appreciate you all showing up.
[9:13] Nice to meet you.
[9:14] All right.
[9:19] Richard used to hold up.
[9:21] That's it.
[9:24] That's it.
[9:26] You can go back to work now.
[9:30] Yep.
[9:33] Well, that was cool.
[9:39] So you driving?
[9:41] Yeah.
[9:41] I started last week.
[9:43] I went up and down.
[9:43] I mean, I couldn't put any pressure.
[9:48] I didn't deal with shit.
[9:51] No kidding.
[9:52] So when you woke up, because when you are...
[9:57] It's broken right across here.
[9:59] Okay