What was said

Planning Board, May 14, 2018

the recording · 2:03 long, about 16,120 words spoken · captions carried this meeting moderately well

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The town published minutes (text), minutes (text) and an agenda, an agenda for this meeting. Those minutes are the record; what follows is a guide to the recording.

The short version

  1. ▶ 1:21:28The Planning Board took no vote on the Tri Town Landing senior building and continued the hearing to June 11 after height, parking and fire access concerns.
  2. ▶ 1:14:57The board gave informal guidance on the project: supportive of an age restriction and a density decrease, concerned about the four-story height; no vote on waivers.
  3. ▶ 6:26The board found the deck expansion at 7 Trillium Court to be a non-material change by voice vote.
  4. ▶ 1:01:17Abutters said a fourth floor would look into backyards, and raised unnotified abutters, visitor parking, tree removal and lighting.
  5. ▶ 1:39:50A motion on a stormwater 319 grant support letter was made, but the vote was not audible; the town's half of the match comes from road improvement money earmarked for stormwater.

Why it matters — our reading

  • A four-story, waiver-heavy senior building at Tri Town Landing would change height, parking and fire access for neighbors and the housing mix, and the board has not yet decided on any of it.
  • The stormwater grant match would use road improvement money earmarked for stormwater, so it draws on the town budget, mostly taxes, rather than a new appropriation.

Watch next

  • June 11: the Tri Town Landing hearing resumes, with a staff technical review the week before.
  • A marijuana bylaw listening session, planned for June with town counsel invited.

economic developmentgrantshousingplanning and zoningpolicypublic commentpublic safetyroads and dpwtown meetingwarrant articlewater sewer

Present: Greg (chair); Adam (town planner (as addressed)); Marjorie (staff (as addressed)); Michael Ray (member); David (member). Names are the caption model’s hearing and may be wrong.

Votes

  1. ▶ 6:26Determine that the deck expansion at 7 Trillium Court is a non-material change — moved by Mr. Chau, as heardpassed (voice vote, ayes heard)
  2. ▶ 1:21:28Continue the Tri Town Landing hearing to June 11passed (ayes heard)
  3. ▶ 1:39:50Accept the stormwater 319 grant support letter as writtennot audible

And 2 procedural: accept the minutes of april 23 (▶ 1:23:16); adjourn (▶ 2:03:20).

Against the town’s minutes

The town published minutes (text) for this meeting; ours were compared item by item. 2 agree, 2 caption errors resolved by the official reading, 1 substantive difference. The town’s minutes are a partial record.

  1. differsMarijuana bylaw listening session▶ 1:48:04

    recording Board to schedule a marijuana bylaw listening session in June with town counsel invited.

    town’s minutes “the board will look to town counsel for assistance.”

    Both involve town counsel and a listening session, but the official minutes put the listening session on the June 25 agenda for a zoning bylaw (Section 250-8.3) and do not name marijuana; check the recording and agenda.

2 caption errors the town’s minutes resolve
  • Attendee: Michael Ray:Michael Ray (member)→Michael-Ray Jeffreys
  • Attendee: Adam, town planner:Adam (town planner (as addressed))→Adam R. Burney
In one record only: 7 from the recording, 3 from the town’s minutes
  • Recording only — Vote: continue Tri Town Landing hearing to June 11: Continue the Tri Town Landing hearing to June 11 — passed (ayes heard) ▶ 1:21:28
  • Recording only — Vote: accept 319 stormwater grant support letter: Accept the stormwater 319 grant support letter as written — not audible ▶ 1:39:50
  • Recording only — 319 stormwater grant match figures: 319 stormwater grant match: $80,000, four million dollars, half a million dollars ▶ 1:38:10
  • Recording only — Green communities grant figure: Green communities grant: two hundred and thirty thousand dollars ▶ 1:25:53
  • Recording only — Tri Town Landing return date and technical review: Applicant to return June 11; staff to arrange a technical review the week before. ▶ 1:19:44
  • Recording only — Informal guidance on age restriction, density and height: Board gave informal guidance: supportive of age restriction and density decrease, concerned about height; no vote on waivers. ▶ 1:14:57
  • Recording only — Attendee: Marjorie, staff: Marjorie (staff (as addressed))
  • Town’s minutes only — Village at Flat Hill drainage review: “a. burney and the dpw director will bring this to the board of selectmen for discussion.”
  • Town’s minutes only — Town business brochure chairs' meeting on hold: “a. burney recommended this be put on hold until after the board's annual reorganization next month.”
  • Town’s minutes only — Attendees Matthew Allison and Kenneth Chenis: “present: gregory bittner, matthew allison, kenneth chenis, david prokowiew, michael-ray jeffreys, adam r. burney”

Compared 2026-11-05. Neither record is treated as the referee: a caption error is the same fact heard badly; a difference is for a person to check at the timestamp.

The money

  1. ▶ 1:38:10319 stormwater grant match

    The town would pay half and the grant half; the match comes from road improvement money earmarked for stormwater.

    as heard:$80,000four million dollarshalf a million dollars

  2. ▶ 1:25:53Green communities grant

    A grant application was accepted, including some administrative offset.

    as heard:two hundred and thirty thousand dollars

Settled without a vote

  • ▶ 1:19:44Applicant to return June 11; staff to arrange a technical review the week before.
  • ▶ 1:14:57Board gave informal guidance: supportive of age restriction and density decrease, concerned about height; no vote on waivers.
  • ▶ 1:48:04Board to schedule a marijuana bylaw listening session in June with town counsel invited.

Documents and exhibits

The town’s minutes

The minutes print a list, headed documents used at meeting::

  • Minutes- 04/23/18
  • 7 Trillium Court, Request for Non-Material Change
  • 319 Grant, draft Letter of Support

Heard in the recording

  • ▶ 1:22:34minutes from April 23rdprior minutes· mentioned in the recording, not found in the minutes
  • ▶ 1:34:55draft letter of support and one-page synopsisletter or email, shown· in the minutes’ list (“319 Grant, draft Letter of Support”)
  • ▶ 1:20:46Graves review letterreport· mentioned in the recording, not found in the minutes

In the minutes’ list and not identified in the recording: Minutes- 04/23/18; 7 Trillium Court, Request for Non-Material Change.

State law asks minutes to list the documents and exhibits used at a meeting (M.G.L. c.30A §22(a)). Names from the recording are the caption model’s hearing; the two sides are matched by name, by script, so a document named two different ways can be missed. A place to look, not a finding.

Public comment

  1. ▶ 58:02Objects that the new building and its activity sit behind his house and that a four-story top floor would look into his backyard. — Stephen st. Laurent, as heard, abutter
  2. ▶ 1:01:17Says abutters were never notified; raises visitor parking problems at elderly housing, tree removal and lighting. — a speaker, abutter, East Street
  3. ▶ 1:02:20Loss of privacy from a fourth floor and past night-time prowling from the development. — Susan cyant, as heard, resident, 16 East Street
  4. ▶ 1:20:26Asked whether the hearing reconvenes June 11 and corrected the impervious area figure per the peer review letter.
  5. ▶ 1:53:18Asked how the berm left after West Street paving is handled at driveways.

Where the time went

Minutes of recording by subject, from the topic spans below. A topic with two subjects counts toward both.

The whole meeting, in order

  1. ▶ 0:217 Trillium Court deck non-material changevoted · 6:17 long · planning and zoning
  2. ▶ 6:38Tri Town Landing site plan modification and waiverscontinued to June 11 · 1:15:52 long · planning and zoning, housing, public safety
  3. ▶ 1:22:34Minutesmotion made · 0:56 long
  4. ▶ 1:23:30Committee reportsinformational · 3:10 long · planning and zoning
  5. ▶ 1:26:40Special permit time limit article failurediscussion · 8:10 long · town meeting, warrant article, planning and zoning
  6. ▶ 1:34:50Stormwater 319 grant support lettermotion made · 5:10 long · grants, water sewer
  7. ▶ 1:40:00Marijuana bylaw planninginformational · 9:26 long · planning and zoning, town meeting
  8. ▶ 1:49:26Notices, member comments, ongoing itemsinformational · 14:11 long · planning and zoning, economic development

What the captions could not carry

  • Results of the minutes and grant letter votes are not stated in the captions.
  • Exact dimensions and parking counts garbled in places.

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What changed

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