Planning Board - Regular Meeting

the magic over. Okay. Um we're here for the planning board meeting um of April 3rd, 2025. Uh let's stand and uh opening. I pledge allegiance 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. Um first item on our proposed agenda is um minutes uh March 13th minutes. Does anyone have any comments? Have they been These are posted. Yes. If there are no comments, can we have a motion to approve them? Make a motion to approve the minutes of 13th. Second. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. Next item, bills. Do we have any bills? Um, yes, we do have three bills. Um, let's see. one is reimbursement to uh Cooper for uh signing up for the online version of the national planning conference. Um bill from the Lowel Sun for advertising for the zoning bylaw amendments that are coming up at the May town meeting. And then the U reimbursement of the refund, no refund of the remaining peer review account for um 550 New Town Road. Okay. Um we'll pass that that around. Uh the next item is Dean Lane. uh as we understand it um I don't know what the actual

status is but the intention is for the developers of Cooper Farm to donate the site of the remaining affordable unit to Habitat for Humanity and our this is outside of our um well it's not outside of our purview but we're not where whatever agreement is outside of our um input. However, uh I would like to see and the town council would like to see uh a vote of support for this. Um and uh I'm going to ask well Darl you're the four of us who are not Daryl are are very um cognizant of this situation and it's been very I guess it's really simple will this bring to closure the issue of the affordable unit and frankly closure has been really difficult and uh this particular closure I what a couple years ago this was brought up and we were sort of despairing of it ever going forward. So, the fact that it is going forward uh is a good thing. Uh is it appropriate for me to make the motion? Um if nobody else does. Okay. I do have a couple questions. Sure. So, uh have we so it looks like uh the fields have been worked directly with Habitat. Is that correct? to be able to determine whatever their terms of agreement are. Yes. Do we have any sense of what that I think it's uh what does town council say about that? I mean I have no information on conversations between um the developer and Habitat. I did speak with Habitat and they are

would be happy to accept the property. Okay. And and move forward with building um an affordable unit there. their timing would um follow uh development of the duplex at Tahadawan Road and they would like to um do that one do Dean Lane immediately after that one. Okay, that's all I know. Okay. All right. Um would it be possible to be able to get whatever? I think we should get a communication from the um since this to in in what manner is this going through town council in in terms of what is the um what is it because we had the pending litigation lawsuit or whatever. Yeah. Just my question to town council is does is the planning board do the planning board does the planning board need to do anything to move this forward and he recommended a vote? Well, we can we can um we can do a non-specific um vote of support for the conveyance of the remaining Dean Lane lot to Habitat for Humanity. Okay. Um part of the reason why I ask is um slightly different hat affordable housing trust. I just think because we kind of monitor that to be able to see affordable housing units in the town, it would be good to just be able to keep apprised of what constitutes this agreement. And as Maren said, you you've had the preliminary talk with Habitat and and it would be after the Tahadawan Road, but it's always good to have things in writing just so there's no So,

could we cl Is this a ZVA issued uh special permit or is it a planning board permit? it. There's no permit involved. It's Well, I'm just saying because it sounds like they're negotiating with the ZVA on this, not us. Or I'm just wondering why this says the Z. Okay. Um it was initially a planning board special permit for the entire development um issue went to zoning board of appeals when the um uh building permit was um not issued for that last unit. and it turns through that process. It turned out that the last unit is supposed to be affordable. And so if uh Habitat, for example, goes to pull a building permit on that last lot and it's an affordable unit, then that building permit can issue for an affordable unit. Yeah, it's basically clarifying who's got the final decision on this. So ZBA will release the final final decision is is building commissioner at this point. So, who directs the building commissioner to uh to release the lot then? I'm just it's a process question. I'm I don't want to get wrapped up in it, right? Um it's it's his authority to do that. No, no direction from either. So, it was on his authority that he denied them the final Right. It was actually the previous building, right? Yes. And um it was a so I think to cover our basis we should if something h we should remind the new building inspector that there's a we he knows okay so just so that covers it he knows that no permit should be issued with this affordable unit. Yeah and it's marked as such in our permitting software. So Okay. Okay. We have permitting software. We do. Um, so yeah, and I only say that because it would be a real shame if somehow one day we realize, oh, there's a house that's going to be built there and it's a market rate house and you know, we just don't want any confusion about that.

We've been to enough with this. You couldn't get a building permit for that. All right. Um, so um I'll make a motion that we uh endorse the plan to uh convey it to fields to convey lots 19 and well it's 20 I think isn't it? It's it's one parcel. Yeah. Just say the remaining parcel to Habitat Humanity for the construction of affordable unit. Right. Okay. Second. Second. Second. Darl. I I I I I And I just want to thank Marin and Cooper for their hard work to keep this bar. This was this has been going on for a while. I And when Maren called me, it was funny because I was thinking just the week before like, how are we going to push this along? Because we sort of got to the end of our rope in in um sort of compelling them to do this. Uh and we had some angry confrontations in this room with the developers about it. Anyway, okay. Next. Any member input? [Music] anything going on in the town newsletter regarding our efforts? Um, yes. So, the newsletter did include a quick update on the marijuana bylaw and the um flood plane bylaw moving forward. Um there's also an announcement of a public information session on April 9th uh in the multi-purpose room about the two um town meeting warrant articles for the disposition of um this building. Okay.

Um the uh the last item on board business is public input. Uh for those of I don't know if any of you are here for that purpose uh but it will last for no more than 10 minutes and speakers are allowed to speak for no longer than two minutes. Is anyone here for the public input part? I just had a couple of questions. Sure. Carolyn Mueller 8 East Roxbury Drive. Um first of all I was wondering on the the um town scenic road bylaw if that's has if there's any is that under the planning board? So, I know in Foster Street, I think I talked to you, Jeeoff, about that would be under Highway to talk to Highway about the um stone walls that they've kind of they've torn up, but the rocks are still there, so I'm hopeful that they're going to put them back afterwards. Okay. Yes, the construction plan is to replace those. Okay, great. Um and then I noticed that the Gly property at 195 had one road. I know that that project has completely changed. I think they're just bu maybe a private builder's building a couple of um homes there. But in front of the where the cornfield used to be to the left of the glazy house, there's a lot of trees that are are tagged right now. And so there's um a stone wall there too that I'm sure they'll have to take some of it down just to make access. But I was wondering what what who would oversee that if it's a private person building there? It's a good question. Is that building commissioner? So, as part of the building permit application, um I have the opportunity to review those or um Cooper and I have the opportunity to review those and if it's on a scenic roadway and it doesn't yet have a scenic roadway permit and we flag that and ask the building commissioner to have them come in with an with an application.

So, it would happen before because I know sometimes it happens after. we see it happen after but it should be before if all things work well. Okay, I'll take that. And if it is does happen to be after then you have to work with it. Did um the previous developer um do scenic roadway for the for the cuts when they did this the subdivision. I believe that was part of their initial application. So they might be using the existing that's already been approved from the Yeah, I think they are actually anyway. Okay, thank you. We can at least look into it. Okay. And then um you just mentioned the the hearing for this building. If if everything all goes through and that's going to go through as affordable housing, what what does this board have to do with that? like do you have permits and things or is that separate from the planning board when it gets to that stage? Um that would depend on the um permitting process that the developer decides to go through. Uh my current guess is that it would be a um friendly friendly 40B application to the zoning board of appeals, but that would likely also include a site plan review uh for the planning board. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, under that process there is a lot of leeway for design review. Yeah. So, and I should mention that Carolyn is um on the historic commission society society, but there is a group who are anxious about the historic aspect of this building. Okay, thank you.

Um, six, we've passed 640. Uh, the agenda item is 31 Shadic Street ANR. This is the building that uh is next to the the new uh senior center which was bought by the town for the purposes of that project and is now uh been re the prop the property has been reconfigured and um uh anyway Maron why don't you describe why don't you comment on the ANR. Okay. So, um what I've done is I pulled up the partial site plan um from the new senior center shadic center. They had anticipating doing a new lot line that looked something like this. But as they're reviewing the site on this slope from the backyard down to uh the side of the um senior center um is something that not that should be under the control of of the town. Um, so they would like to do a new lot line that skirts the top of that slope and that'll allow the town to install a fence along there, makes for a much safer backyard um for this home and then they would square off the front. So because the existing frontage, it's already pre-existing non-conforming. So, it will need both planning board signature and um zoning board of appeals dimensional variance, but none of that can happen until they get through land court because it's also land court property. So, eventually there will be an ANR application to planning board on this. Um so, there's nothing we can do until we get right to actually. Is there a time frame for this? Um it

they would like to have it done yesterday. Um it all depends on uh their land court uh time frame. Land court hearing um has been set. They kind of docket these try to give applicants a timeline for when they'll get a response. What is a land court issue? Land basically 495 isn't wasn't put where yeah it's probably registered land. That's why it's land right. So, um, where very old deeds reference certain stone walls or fences that have since long since been moved, it's the legal process to establish exactly where the uh, boundaries are. Um, it's okay. I just had no idea. Um, another quick question related to um to this property. about 6 months ago maybe, we sent a letter to the select board asking whether or not they would consider um deed restricting this house. Um did we ever get a response from the select board on that? We have not received a written response. um [Music] the budget process. Um through the budget process, I heard that the town intends um to use the proceeds from the sale of this uh property uh to help pay down uh the town's u sewer uh debt. Okay. 6:45 has been reached. Item uh agenda item number three uh is the continued public hearing. Um the water resource district special permit site plan amendment and storm water review 55 Russell Street which are the new tennis courts. Uh which is grouped in with the updated baseball field at Littleton

Middle School and Russell Street School. And uh we hope to vote on that tonight. Uh the last meeting we ended with um a uh sort of wanting to uh know the peer review for the drainage of that site that was uh the issue. Uh so could we um have a well we have the two we have the uh activas is that it uh who has designed the tennis courts and we have our town uh peer reviewer green international here. So so as you saw we provided response to the comments. So I guess if you want to start um or how do you want to provided most of the the comments on the peer review were just asking for additional notes on plans which we will add those to the plans. Um and then I think in terms of um the baseball field, we do need to provide um an additional um narrative and calculations to show the design for the storm water for the baseball field. when we came for you. Um last time, uh we were of the opinion that no additional BMPs needed to be put in there just due to the minimal and um added impervious to get just ADA access to all the different places. Um but peer reviewer indicated that he wanted to see calculations as far as that. Um we've started to work on those calculations and have found that the um added impervious will cause a bit of a curve number change and will cause a little bit more runoff. um from the site. So, we're actually proposing to switch that um asphalt material to a porous asphalt material to allow things to infiltrate and then we will provide the the calculations and the in addition to the

report um to show how that that will meet the storm water standards. Okay. Peer review in action. Um, so yeah, I guess one of the other comments I I mean I look I read through all the responses and it looks like you're addressing everything. There's only two comments that looked like you kind of pushed back on. Um, one was the um um so the project is within a zone two which is like which is a wellhead protection area u which means it's above an aquifer. Um, so you're supposed to provide 44% TSS removal for pre-treatment, which is basically you either have two pre-treatment devices or you use like a proprietary device. I understand, you know, it's a tennis court and a baseball field. So, you know, that might be excessive um for this, but it is one of the rules in the, you know, part of the uh storm water standards. So, um I did want to, you know, alert the board about that, um that they weren't providing, well, they weren't providing any pre-treatment actually, um in the initial. So, are you planning on providing a pre-treatment? So, I can I can address that. So, that standard is written for roadways. Um the storm water standards don't have guidance for uses like this where it is um strictly pedestrian. Um so by just restricting the use um to pedestrian use, no cars, very limited cars involved. It might be a truck maybe once a year to come on and maintain it, but it won't be parked on those. Um and the new walkways that are there um are accessing only the only the courts and only the baseball field. So those don't need to be treated in winter with sand or salt. So just by nature of the use,

it's not creating TSS. So just by nature of restricting the use that way um we don't need to provide that that water quality because it's already being that standard is already being met just by um limiting the use to just pedestrian. So TSS is total suspended solids. Okay. So this is for salt stuff that falls off vehicles typically possibly oil. like a grease trap or something. Yeah. Sediment like you know um bird droppings you know like anything you know um you know leaves like anything that kind of degrades. Um the thing is the storm water standards don't specifically say that is just for roadways. You know it says you have to treat roof runoff too. You know nobody's walking on the roof. Um, and so for roof runoff, you don't have to provide any pre-treatment because there is less TSS on roof. Um, but you still have to provide treatment. And that's kind of where we're kind of differentiating on our interpretation of the rule. So is there no treatment now? So the infiltration basin just by nature will treat. Um, we just didn't provide the calculations to prove that it was meeting the water quality volume of 1 in. However, I do think that if we went back and did the calculations, it would likely be be meeting that. Um, so yeah, I just want to see the calculations. It should have used the 1. Okay. So, um, and that is it for this final goound, right? Yeah. It seems everything else um they're going to address. So, I mean, I haven't seen the revised plans or revised calculations, but everything else they they agree with our comments and they're going to

address. So, it was just the water quality. We just wanted to see the pre-treatment and some sort of pre-treatment and that they're meeting the 1 in for water quality. So, um the key thing is some sort of pre-treatment. I think that um most of us probably could get our heads around not requiring two, you know, the dual treatment. Um, so comments. Now I I should preface this. We would like to vote today and if we, you know, when we do vote, if and when we do vote, we can apply conditions to the decision. Any comments? My only comment is about the use of it. last time we left it open that the school department didn't want to use during the day and I felt that was um unacceptable that it should be available for all the residents in the town of Littleton um to be used even if there's people in the school. I mean it's not going to affect students that are in a building and I don't really know people playing. So Mark, I went back and uh clarified that in our pre-construction meeting when uh we were meeting with all of the um the larger group. That was uh that was something that was brought up at the time by the principal um at the time, you know, being concerned that there wasn't going to be the grass space, there was going to be the tennis and things like that. So, um, in my conversations to follow up, uh, since our last meeting, um, you know, obviously the other facilities are, you know, usable and everything else and this one be we've we've all come to the conclusion this one would be no different. People might have a park at Alumni Field and walk over, but Yep. that'll be available. Okay, that's all. Yeah, the only uh the only thing back and forth was just for, you know, the school kids use and everything if they were utilizing that for PE classes that,

you know, we would we would yield way to that kind of activity. Anyone else? Can I hear a motion? I'll make the motion that we Oh, we have to close the hearing first. Uh, make a motion to close the hearing. Thank you. Thank you. All in favor? I Now, can we have a motion to um approve uh the water resource district special permit site plan amendment and storm roer review for the 50 tennis new tennis courts and baseball field at 55 Russell Street. uh and with the condition that well we want to call it that the I'm actually and I'm making this I I shouldn't be making the the motion but um basically um we have discussed um that our peer reviewer is satisfied with the calculations that you will supply them. Uh, and we are specifically um only requiring a the the pre I don't know the technical term, but the pre-treat not not the not the super pre-treatment, but the pre-treatment. So, yeah, basically if you could put like a four bed um on the basin, I think that would probably be good enough. Is that okay? like we can be agreeable to putting some sort of pre-treatment in there. I don't I just don't want to promise that it'll be a foray because I don't know that we have the space over there to do that, but we will we can provide pre-treatment. Yeah. Okay. So, it needs to be conditioned upon. Yes.

Getting resolved. Yeah. Um so, um there is was a draft decision prepared um and it does reference um peer review comments from green dated 321. we can clarify with these um last few issues um to include pre-treatment. Um that's the only update I've heard. Um and that that condition actually says that those um have to be resolved um to the planning board's reasonable satisfaction prior to issuance of a building permit. So there's some time to work through th those details. Okay. So moved. Excellent. Can I hear a second? Second. Uh, all in favor? Daryl? I. Anna. I. Bartlett. I. And I'm an I. Okay. So, continue working together all of you guys. Thank you for bringing this forward. Thank you very much. Thanks. Okay. The ne the the the last item is I have a question. Are you going to open up to the public about 55 Russell or No. Well, we closed the hearing. Well, it's in our backyard, so you didn't ask. Yeah, I didn't know when we jump. I apologize. We're Yeah, we're we're just we we mainly have the discussion of the drainage on the site. At the last meeting, there were comments about fencing. Were you part of that? Okay. Um and that's an issue for the school committee uh to provide such fencing as I recall our discussion. Do you recall the discussion about that? So the discussion was around so it is school property.

Yeah. Yeah. So, um, as far as the project goes, um, one of the things, uh, that we did have approved was we did have school committee sign off on the construction plans when they were submitted. Um, any work that's done is obviously under their purview. Um, as far as the actual fence was not part of the original uh, plan. Uh, there has not been a fence out there in the history of that field. Um with the addition of the tennis courts and the uh minimizing that field down to a 77 field, uh the usages even as it is now will theoretically go down. Uh most of the users will be inside that tennis court. Um it'll no longer be big enough to have the girls lacrosse team which has been out there currently. Uh the girls middle school team which has been playing out there. So, um, the uses will most likely be vi PE class as well as whomever is using the tennis courts and possibly our our smaller user groups like U6 soccer, which is pop-up nets and some stuff like that. Uh, on top of that, uh, as far as the budget for this project goes, it's razor thin. Uh, we have a couple adder alternates that we had built in that were things that we had pulled out of the original, um, wishes of the project. As far as when the project was first put put forth, uh we pulled all a million dollars worth of stuff out of the project. So at this time, uh that just was not something that was um being considered for the project. The tennis courts will be fenced themselves, 100% 360° fencing. There'll be uh correct me if I'm wrong. It's uh 8t along the Abberati line and the uh parking lot and they'll be cut down to 4T on the uh baselines so that uh for viewing purposes. So there won't be a fence at the line. So that's not the issue. And so as the history of that field goes, the history of that field ran the long

way. Now it's directly facing my yard. So when shooting on the goals, they were shooting towards Russell Street and towards the woods. Now they'll be directed right at my yard. My concern is when Aaron B like as it is now like I get where we live is like we're the ones in the photos like it's that field is directly abuting my yard now. So I don't know if you have a photo of it anywhere. Um it's now the field turned completely 90°. So now it there's kids in our yard once in a while anyway like balls come through at recess like again I work for the for my city like I get I'm very involved in the town it's I understand that it's the you know it it's just pro it's like moving forwards it's it is what it is but now it's directly facing my yard so what's keeping kids and balls and stuff out of my yard who's liable for that when they come into my yard like it it's it's not the same feel as it was before just with tennis courts in this field is now turned completely towards my yard. So, and if you look at photos that I've seen, the corner of that field is cut off behind it to to the Aravide line which is directly feet from my house. Oh, there it is. And it looks like it's 20 ft from the arborite, but it's a fence. There's an 8ft high fence there. Correct. That's on the tennis courts. Yeah, the field. The field is on the other side of the tennis court. It's behind the tennis court. It normally the fields where these kids play, lacrosse, soccer, and everything run the same way that the long way of that tennis court is. Yeah. But now it's going to be, as you put it, it's going to be too small. You're not going to really have anything but little pee-wee kids. It's not going to be used like it was before. There's hardly anyone that's going to be able to use that field. Maybe gym classes at in the afternoon. I don't think you have to worry about that. They're going to be a

teacher out there and everything else. It's not going to have anywhere near the use that glasses are out there now as it is like and when the nature of kids when when they kick a ball or throw a ball like I have 50 lacrosse balls in my yard all the time stuff comes into my yard kids and everything and that was when it was oriented the other way. My concern is now that whether it's small or big or whatever it's it's pointed it's not 20 ft. You're looking at the tennis courts and that's tennis court. I see what you're talking about. Yeah, I'm talking about the corner of the picture that this isn't the photo. The last photo I had had that I saw the space in the photo that we have the space behind the net is cut off on that angle there and it's directly in front of the albite one with the nets drawn on it right there. So any shot or anything that misses the net and especially if you're talking about little kids, they're probably not as accurate as bigger kids. That ball, those things are coming into my yard. So would it be more helpful to have this color photo up? So we Yeah, if there we have a color photo that was um that was on the town website that we're talking about and you can see our house in the photo. We're just concerned and and we were actually told that the tennis courts were only going to be used for the high school students and that people are going to have to sign up to be able to use them. So now they're just open to the public all day and all all night. Well, there's no light. There's no lights. It won't be all night. Well, I just Well, there's no way that was a vote. Okay. This this I I think our at the at the last hearing. This technically isn't part of the tennis court project. Um this is a school committee

issue. And I understand you using this to come in and and and give your concerns, but um um so we're our whole thing is is that we had no idea this was even in the works until we were told that the town was forced to send something for us to know what was going on. It's not forced. It's part of the process. any a butter gets a certified letter. It's just every project. Yeah. It's just not drawn the the field isn't drawn on that photo. But that's my house. The one that's angled Yeah. towards like that is the closest to exactly where that field is ending right at the Arab line. I I can't safetywise for my family and for and for the kids. the that drawing is if you go up right to those trees, that is where that field. Yeah. Like so this is the I don't know if you have that anywhere, but you can see the blue quartz. Yes. No. So it actually doesn't have it in there. So this is a photo that I have from the from the website from the town. It has the soccer fields and it has the tennis courts. And where the goal is is literally feet away from where the path through is from our yard into the middle school. Like again, it it's more of a I every budget's razor thin. Like I like I said, I work for the city. I completely That picture there shows the goals going this way. That's not it. That Well, that's how it is now. But in the photo, I mean, can you show like I don't know. I don't know. I It's on the town. This is really school department, is Can you show that photo to Marin and see if she can find it, please? Thank you. It's this one. So, it shows the soccer field. Is that part of this application? Your

application includes the tennis courts and the baseball field, not the orientation of a soccer, you know, is there even going to be a soccer field out there? Isn't it just going to be a a field? So there's not going to be lines or anything like this. This is the picture that I So I can't speak to whether they're going to line it in the future. There is the ability to fit a full size 77 field which is what that was meant to show I think when that original um drawing was made. Uh currently that is a green space and we are in working on the tennis courts and that will remain a green space used to be determined in the future. So, you're not proposing a field out there? No. The the question was asked when we were going through the preliminary construction stuff is what size field would fit there. The answer is a 77 field. Um, which that that drawn specifically just represents. I will say that with our U6s in that space they use, they typically run the other direction because there's a little black fence that keeps the balls from going into the retaining pond. So, um, yeah, currently we don't actually have soccer goals on that field. There's only field hockey goals. So, well, I mean, obviously that'd be a concern also if they if they have to change the orientation of the field, field hockey balls, lacrosse balls. I'm more worried about people coming into my yard now if things are aimed at my yard. We have thing kids and again, it doesn't bother me when kids come in to get a ball. I've done it, you know, my whole life myself when we've been growing up. But now, like we are getting people in our yard when it's when it's going that way. Now that it would be facing my yard, obviously there's nothing stopping a soccer ball, a kid, a baseball, you know, field hockey ball, anything from just naturally coming into the

yard, which to me it seems simply you could fix with a 4ft fence. I agree with you. Thank you. But that's not part of our remit here. We're here to approve the tennis courts. So why don't we send a letter back to the to to the school department that in the course of our deliberation that it's been suggested that at the very least a 4ft field 4ft fence should be installed to at least m mitigate. I I it it and it's really that one property because our neighbors next to us, the ones in the front. So there's two but it's not the entire property line where the arbit is. It's just where the field would be. It's mainly where the Yeah. Like it's where like you know the tennis court one an 8ft fence if that's what he said it was going to be. Yeah. Then nothing's my dog would love an Aaron tennis ball coming over those 8ft fence. I can promise you that. No one's getting concerned about We're just concerned about the right side of the bill, but but that butts up into like right and send that back. Yeah, we'll send it. Yeah, I I I agree. A letter to the school committee like I stated originally. I mean, the intention is that this will this green space is really going to be used by the PE classes and possibly the little littlest soccer players that we have, which are the popup. How about if we do it this way? How about if we send a letter back that we know it's going to be green space as it is now. If at some at a later date you decide to put an actual field out there, you should consider current balls and putting a t a fence up. If you're going to put a field out there, I think that's fair. I mean, the whole point of this project was to try to move most of the usages to the high school space anyway. So, okay. I think I think that's I appreciate that. So yeah, because if as as what explained this whole project is they reorganized the high school field so that all the

soccer field hockey etc goes there and then the softball and baseball goes to the Russell Street things. So um anyway I appreciate you coming in. I apolog I apologize. I should have asked. I I didn't know what to do. Okay, that's okay. No, I'm It's my fault. So, anyway, I appreciate you and thank you for offering that up. We appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. Um, so our next item is item number four. Anything any name you want, by the way, just in case. We haven't gotten there yet. All right. Just Just wondering. We have the what? Yes. I just want to know if they were going to name the field. Why is that, Mark? No. No reason. Um, thank you. Thank you, Mark. Yep. Our next item and the last item, last item is discuss May 6th annual town meeting. We have a zoning by bylaw amendment uh to amend adult use marijuana establishments to preclude the cultivation of adult use marijuana in town. We attended a uh select board meeting where they voted to approve uh putting this on the town on the ballot. We have a zoning bylaw amendment as part of this to clarify air quality special permit requirements for medical marijuana treatment centers. And this is to bring the treatment uh the HVAC treatment in these uh facilities up to our uh I think a really positive standard. And then uh zoning bylaw amendment to amend

wetlands and flood plane bylaws to uh this uh to conform with FEMA requirements and state requirements which will allow people who do make use of flood insurance uh to maintain their flood insurance. Um, do you want to do we have um Yeah, I I can jump in. So, I put together a couple of charts to overview the changes for the uh marijuana use and uh staff have uh made them much more uh presentable than what I had here. But I tried to just basically keep it simple. Try to just review, you know, what the actual changes are, a little bit about the process. The first chart was the process, make sure people understood it was two 2/3 town meeting vote and simple majority at the ballot. So they'd see it in two parts. Next one was just an overview of what's currently allowed and what will be prohibited. Uh there with a note that the existing cultivator is would continue until they uh give up their license. And then the last chart is just basically what the red line changes are. And um even I I think the other thing to to mention because even in the with the selectmen one of the comments made me think that they're not focused enough on that this is simply a cultivation. I I think I was going to clarify that that this doesn't affect retail sales or anything like that, which I think there is probably support for that. I think it's the cultivators that is the piece there. Um, one comment that um I probably need to technically look at people with um I intentionally didn't use red in my thing

there for people that have red um color blindness. They can't see the changes. So, I was just thinking we got to make sure that um we're sensitive to making sure that the we address the disabilities that some people have uh there. But I think I think they're all strike through changes, so those will show up even even if you are color impaired. Uh there any comments? I just thought it was really helpful in its simplicity. Thank you. It has to be simple. Yes. Okay. Uh, and this we're lucky because we did the hard work last fall and now we uh can do just something we just cruise by. Well, I would never assume that 2/3 is 2/3. No, 2/3 is is a pretty rigid standard. Uh, and there will be um, you know, people commenting and I think the big thing we again mention it is this is nothing about the sales. It's only the cultivators, right? Um, anyone here to comment on this? Um, so we've come to the end of our agenda. You got you got a whole you got a quick little presentation on article 38 which is the um again that just follows the same thing and and just to let you know the article numbers have changed and we'll update accordingly. So, um it's kind of the format that I was just thinking of how we'd walk people through, tell them what the purpose of this was, administrative corrections, uh and then, uh what the process is, and then the next chart just has um what the changes are, adds the words or MTC to two other things there just to emphasize that it's a basically an administrative clerical correction that got missed in the original one there. Um, and if you'd

like, I could probably put together some charge for I mean, I don't want to also the issue, but the whole MTC thing comes about because we have a marijuana medical marijuana cultivator and they will not allow us to eliminate the MTC cultivator. Yeah. Right. It was. So, that one has to remain states. I mean if that comes up in a question. Actually we do did start some slides start for the for yeah actually the state's website has a lot of good information that okay borrowed. Yeah I think the uh toughest part on just presenting this one is is it's not really up for debate. This is what the flood plane is and we're just adopting it. Not there's no debate on it. Um, be careful not to say that because it wors people off. But it basically this is, you know, if we don't vote for it, there's negative consequences. So, everybody in the flood plane. So, Marin has told me that there are known to be 11 properties that maintain flood insurance through this program. Can we get any more info on that? Yeah, that's the number. Is that the number? So good to mention that there are 11 properties that take advantage of this flood insurance. And then there was a request to approve the wording the slight wording change. So yep. Okay. So, um if the board would vote to add the um last phrase um that was missing from inadvertently missing from the prior versions uh and a placement of modular, not modular, wasn't it? Manufactur manufactured, right? It's on the Oh, it's on the first page of the cover page. So, this is an

example of the state review actually picked up something we missed. Well, I mean something pretty it wasn't a major thing, but I mean I guess they go literally word for word to the FEMA. Yeah. And then this was after working with with her for um since in detail since January and it's like one final review caught that which was a good thing to catch it now rather than having to go back. So if the board um could vote to add that um yeah so so in the chart it would have to say the map panels and whatever the additional changes that the warrant um will be printed with that in it. Okay. Okay. So, explain to me the action we need that one. Manufactured homes. Can I have a motion to add placement of manufactured homes? Yes, I'll make that motion. I'll second. Hi. Hi. Hi. Sure. Hi. Um, thank you. On that note, can I have a motion to adjourn? Motion tojourn. We're done. Right. Second. All in favor? I. Okay, we're done. Thank you.