What was said

Planning Board, February 11, 2019

the recording · 3:39 long, about 28,291 words spoken · captions carried this meeting moderately well

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The short version

  1. ▶ 3:07:14The Planning Board continued the 400 Electric Avenue gas station and drive-through hearing to March 4 and asked for a traffic impact report that includes the Whalen Road intersection.
  2. ▶ 1:04:58The board continued the 190 Electric Avenue solar hearing and the 380/400 Electric Avenue site plan modification hearing, both to February 25.
  3. ▶ 50:10A site walk for the solar project is to be arranged around Saturday with the Conservation Commission, and the applicant is to mark tree lines.
  4. ▶ 23:15The board granted a site plan review waiver for 909 Mass Ave for real estate office use, with a stated square-foot limit.
  5. ▶ 3:21:58The board continued the Sunset Lane ANR, moved the March 11 meeting to March 4, and approved minutes.

Why it matters — our reading

  • The gas station, solar and Electric Avenue projects are still undecided, so abutters' concerns about noise, lighting, tree clearing and traffic can still be raised at the continued hearings.
  • The traffic report and the board's capital plan request for the master plan are the mechanisms that would shape how the gas station is judged and what planning work the town budget, mostly taxes, is asked to fund.

Watch next

  • Continued hearings for 190 and 380/400 Electric Avenue on February 25 at 6:35.
  • The 400 Electric Avenue gas station hearing on March 4 at 6:35 p.m., with the applicant's traffic report scope for review.

economic developmentpersonnelplanning and zoningpublic comment

Present: Chair (unnamed) (chair); Mr. Verney / Adam (land use director); Jeff Walsh (peer review engineer, Graves Engineering); Paula (member). Names are the caption model’s hearing and may be wrong.

Votes

  1. ▶ 10:00Continue the Sunset Lane ANR to the next meeting.passed
  2. ▶ 23:15Approve waiver of site plan review for 909 Mass Ave for real estate office use, limited to four thousand square feet.passed
  3. ▶ 24:20Continue the 151/181 Leominster Shirley Road hearing to May 13 at 6:35.passed
  4. ▶ 1:04:58Continue the 190 Electric Avenue hearing to February 25 at 6:35.passed
  5. ▶ 1:51:12Continue the 380/400 Electric Avenue hearing to February 25 at 6:35.passed
  6. ▶ 3:07:14Continue the 400 Electric Avenue gas station hearing to March 4 at 6:35 p.m.passed
  7. ▶ 3:21:58Move the March 11 meeting to March 4.passed

And 4 procedural: approve minutes of january 14, 2019. (▶ 3:09:28); approve minutes of january 22, 2019. (▶ 3:09:50); approve minutes of january 28, 2019. (▶ 3:10:18); adjourn. (▶ 3:39:25).

Against the town’s minutes

The town published minutes (text) for this meeting; ours were compared item by item. 4 agree, 1 caption error resolved by the official reading, 4 substantive differences. The town’s minutes are a partial record.

  1. differsVote: continue 151/181 Leominster Shirley Road hearing to May 13▶ 24:20

    recording Continue the 151/181 Leominster Shirley Road hearing to May 13 at 6:35. — passed

    town’s minutes —

    Official minutes record no vote on this continuation; also May 13 is an odd date (possibly misheard). Check the official record and the recording.

  2. differsVote: continue 190 Electric Avenue hearing to Feb 25▶ 1:04:58

    recording Continue the 190 Electric Avenue hearing to February 25 at 6:35. — passed

    town’s minutes —

    Official minutes record no such continuation vote; check whether the hearing was continued and to when.

  3. differsVote: continue 380/400 Electric Avenue hearing to Feb 25▶ 1:51:12

    recording Continue the 380/400 Electric Avenue hearing to February 25 at 6:35. — passed

    town’s minutes —

    Not in official minutes; also conflicts with our later vote continuing 400 Electric Avenue to March 4. Check the recording.

  4. differsVote: continue 400 Electric Avenue gas station hearing to March 4▶ 3:07:14

    recording Continue the 400 Electric Avenue gas station hearing to March 4 at 6:35 p.m. — passed

    town’s minutes —

    Official minutes record no gas station hearing continuation vote; check the official record for this hearing.

1 caption error the town’s minutes resolve
  • Land use director name:Mr. Verney / Adam (land use director)→Adam R. Burney▶ 0:00
In one record only: 5 from the recording, 5 from the town’s minutes
  • Recording only — Capital plan request figure: Planning capital plan request: $50,000 ▶ 3:29:50
  • Recording only — Solar site walk: Site walk for the solar project to be arranged around Saturday with Conservation Commission; applicant to mark tree lines. ▶ 50:10
  • Recording only — Traffic impact report for gas station: Board wants a traffic impact report for the gas station including the Whalen Road intersection; applicant to draft scope for Graves review. ▶ 2:28:20
  • Recording only — Open space liaison on future agenda: Next meeting moved to March 4; open space liaison appointment to be on a future agenda. ▶ 3:05:50
  • Recording only — Peer review engineer Jeff Walsh: Jeff Walsh (peer review engineer, Graves Engineering) ▶ 0:00
  • Town’s minutes only — Master Plan as a budget line: “m. allison opined this should become a budget line in the board”
  • Town’s minutes only — Solar bylaw to be taken up in spring: “the board will take up restructuring/strengthening the bylaw in the spring.”
  • Town’s minutes only — Earth removal permitting takeover: “the board will eventually take this over from board of selectmen.”
  • Town’s minutes only — Other board members present/absent: “present: matthew allison, tanner cole, paula bertram, adam r. burney”
  • Town’s minutes only — Applicant representative and owner: “plan presented on behalf of owner salvatore vito piccirillo, revocable living trust, by neil gorman, david e. ross associates.”

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. ▶ 3:29:50Planning capital plan request

    A member noted the board is asking for a sum in the capital plan for the master plan while having a limited budget, and asked to review the budget.

    as heard:$50,000

  2. ▶ 3:27:42Plotter/reprographics

    A member urged a budget line for large-format printing capability.

Settled without a vote

  • ▶ 50:10Site walk for the solar project to be arranged around Saturday with Conservation Commission; applicant to mark tree lines.
  • ▶ 2:28:20Board wants a traffic impact report for the gas station including the Whalen Road intersection; applicant to draft scope for Graves review.
  • ▶ 3:05:50Next meeting moved to March 4; open space liaison appointment to be on a future agenda.

Documents and exhibits

The town’s minutes

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

  • Minutes of 01/14/19, 190 Electric Avenue
  • Minutes of 01/22/19
  • Minutes of 01/28/19
  • ANR Plan, 205 Sunset Lane
  • Waiver Request, 909 Massachusetts Avenue

Named in the running text, not in a list:

  • Solar Energy Systems Bylaw
  • Recreational Marijuana, Draft Bylaw
  • Board Warrant Article (hearing February 25)

Heard in the recording

  • ▶ 3:38letter from the Building Commissionerletter or email· mentioned in the recording, not found in the minutes
  • ▶ 26:08peer reviewer commentsreport· mentioned in the recording, not found in the minutes
  • ▶ 1:40:15lighting planplan or drawing· mentioned in the recording, not found in the minutes
  • ▶ 3:20:11draft bylawdraft policy or bylaw· named in the minutes’ text, not in a list (“Recreational Marijuana, Draft Bylaw”)

In the minutes’ list and not identified in the recording: Minutes of 01/14/19, 190 Electric Avenue; Minutes of 01/22/19; Minutes of 01/28/19; ANR Plan, 205 Sunset Lane; Waiver Request, 909 Massachusetts Avenue.

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. ▶ 31:47Abutter at 146 Electric Avenue worried about tree clearing in the 200-foot buffer and looking down on the solar site.
  2. ▶ 52:49Neighbors should not have to enforce bylaws; asked about fixing the solar bylaw at Town Meeting. — Phyllis luck fifty Sunset Lane, as heard
  3. ▶ 1:32:02Objected to noise, dust and lighting at the Proctor site. — Richard Shriner fifty-seven John Street, as heard
  4. ▶ 1:35:23Resident concerned about noise, lighting and a 24-hour gas station with a drive-through.
  5. ▶ 2:47:06Property owner spoke in favor of the gas station developer.
  6. ▶ 2:50:07Asked whether parking could be added later if inadequate, and criticised drive-through pedestrian safety at the existing site. — Phylis luck 50 Sunset Lane, as heard

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. ▶ 0:01Opening and public commentinformational · 1:06 long
  2. ▶ 1:07ANR for 205 Sunset Lanecontinued to next meeting · 9:33 long · planning and zoning
  3. ▶ 10:40909 Mass Ave site plan waivervoted, waiver granted · 13:15 long · planning and zoning, economic development
  4. ▶ 23:59151/181 Leominster Shirley Road continuancevoted · 1:01 long · planning and zoning
  5. ▶ 25:00190 Electric Avenue solar hearingcontinued to Feb 25 · 43:10 long · planning and zoning, public comment
  6. ▶ 1:08:10380/400 Electric Avenue site plan modificationcontinued to Feb 25 · 43:25 long · planning and zoning, public comment
  7. ▶ 1:51:35400 Electric Avenue gas station and drive-throughcontinued to March 4 · 1:16:19 long · planning and zoning, economic development, public comment
  8. ▶ 3:08:55Minutes approvalvoted · 1:44 long
  9. ▶ 3:10:39Reports, board reorganization, ongoing items, scheduleinformational · 29:08 long · planning and zoning, personnel

What the captions could not carry

  • Adjournment vote result not captured.
  • Several vote counts were not stated; outcomes taken from 'all in favor aye'.

Reports this meeting suggests

Our reading of the discussion: questions where numbers were in play and a page laying them out would have helped. Every meeting’s suggestions are merged into one register.

  • ▶ 2:20:48Traffic mitigation costsWhat traffic impact would the Electric Avenue gas station have?

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