Present:

• Kate Fletcher, Chair
• Gary Pitney
• Lis Wheeler
• Marie Raftery
• Wayne Slosek, Clerk
• Carl Sprague
• Jennifer Carmichael, Secretary

1. Minutes of July 19 meeting accepted as written
2. Public Hearing, as Clerk, Slosek read public announcement – Special Permit request for 36 Lake Drive
   1. Chair read rules of public meeting—comments limited to subject matter before them, all comments made through Chair, one at a time, and no crosstalk
   2. Shannon Boomsma from White Engineering presented request: Convert a single-family home into 4-seasons home, improve septic system, add external 80 square foot utility building, redirect water away, remove trees, and do replanting
   3. Is in Lake and Pond Overlay District (LPOD)
   4. Questions is there a net increase in lot coverage? Yes What will total coverage be? 9.9% Was septic approved by Tri-Town Health? Yes Plantings must survive for 3 years. Yes
   5. Is the proposed 2-3-foot-high wall, 40 feet long part of proposed 9.9% lot coverage? If not, then coverage is outside permitted 10% and is closer to 13%
   6. Slosek concerned about displacement of soil as new septic dug
   7. Raftery — dock comes in in winter? Yes Sprague — time frame to do work? This fall
   8. No comment from pubic — public hearing closed
   9. Chair said they must stay inside 10% limit on lot coverage
   10. Permit approved
3. Stone Ridge “sketch plan review”
   1. In a review, PB listens and can ask or informally comment but cannot give any assurances in advance of receiving formal application
   2. Request forthcoming to move driveway but would be on neighbor’s property and in an area with endangered species
   3. Slosek must have an easement if on neighboring property — get easement first before request
   4. Would need permission from NHESP (Natural Heritage and Endangered Species program) to go into area with endangered species
   5. Is there an alternative to avoid both neighbors’ property and endangered species?
   6. Sprague- proposed driveway is 900 feet long — over the 500 feet allowed
4. Report on turning LPOD permitting over to Conservation Commission (ConCom) rather than staying with planning Board (PB)
   1. Chair outlined legal steps as suggested by Town Counsel
   2. PB proposes to SB to amend the bylaw and transfer LPOD to ConCom
   3. SB holds public hearing
   4. SB places on Warrant for Town Meeting
   5. ConCom votes to accept if passes
   6. Town votes

Meeting adjourned