What was said

Zoning Board of Appeals, June 26, 2019

the recording · 0:18 long, about 2,547 words spoken · captions carried this meeting moderately well

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The town published an agenda for this meeting. No minutes have been published; the recording is the only record, and what follows is a guide to it.

The short version

  1. ▶ 15:37The Zoning Board of Appeals moved to approve Walmart's special permit for seasonal outdoor display with a condition that the barrier extend further past the parking spaces; the vote result was not audible.
  2. ▶ 16:19The decision was read as a granted special permit, contingent on compliance with all applicable licenses and regulations and on the barrier condition, to be filed with the town clerk within 14 days.
  3. ▶ 6:27The board heard the application to use parking spaces beside the garden center for outdoor display from April 1 to November 1, and members raised traffic and pedestrian safety concerns near the auto care lane.
  4. ▶ 17:42The chair said he would check with the building inspector the next morning about the Oliva property.

Why it matters — our reading

  • This touches how a busy store parking area is used each season, with the barrier condition aimed at keeping pedestrians and vehicles apart near the auto care lane.
  • Because the vote tally could not be heard in the recording, the written decision filed with the town clerk is the reliable record of whether the permit was granted.

Watch next

  • The decision filing with the town clerk, due within 14 days of the hearing.
  • The chair's check with the building inspector about the Oliva property.

economic developmentplanning and zoning

Present: Lisa Normandin (board secretary); Alfred Gravelle (member); James Meza Coski (member); Hans winter up (member); Dave black (member); Patrick Callahan (member); Jim Cranston (presenter); Christopher Lotito (presenter). Names are the caption model’s hearing and may be wrong.

Votes

  1. ▶ 15:37Approve the special permit with the condition that the barrier be extended four feet past the parking spaces for extra safety.not audible

And 1 procedural: adjourn. (▶ 18:02).

The money

Nothing touching money was heard beyond the transfers.

Settled without a vote

  • ▶ 16:19Special permit read as granted, contingent on compliance with all applicable licenses and regulations, with the barrier condition; decision to be filed with the town clerk within 14 days.
  • ▶ 17:42The chair said he would check with the building inspector in the morning about the Oliva property.

Documents and exhibits

The town’s minutes

The town has not published minutes for this meeting.

Heard in the recording

  • ▶ 2:10special permit applicationapplication or permit, shown
  • ▶ 1:43attached special permit questionsapplication or permit, shown
  • ▶ 4:59letter dated May 28thletter or email, shown
  • ▶ 5:41list of abutters and site planplan or drawing, shown
  • ▶ 3:352015 special permitapplication or permit

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.

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. ▶ 0:00Opening, recording notice, hearing procedure and special permit findingsinformational · 2:10 long
  2. ▶ 2:10Reading of Walmart's special permit application and agent letterinformational · 4:17 long · planning and zoning
  3. ▶ 6:27Applicant presentation and board questions on seasonal display, barriers and traffic safetyinformational · 9:10 long · planning and zoning, public safety
  4. ▶ 15:37Motion to approve with barrier condition and reading of decisionmotion made and seconded; result not audible · 2:05 long · planning and zoning
  5. ▶ 17:42Other business: Oliva property question, adjournmentinformational; adjourned · 0:45 long · planning and zoning

What the captions could not carry

  • The vote count or result on the motion to approve was not captured.
  • The adjournment vote result was not captured.
  • The captions around 883-917 are garbled on barrier distances.

These are ours, and they are not the record

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