What was said

Zoning Board of Appeals, June 24, 2020

the recording · 0:33 long, about 3,941 words spoken · captions carried this meeting moderately well

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The town has published neither minutes nor an agenda for this meeting. The recording is the only record, and what follows is a guide to it.

The short version

  1. ▶ 31:12The Zoning Board of Appeals voted by roll call to grant a special permit to tear down and rebuild a non-conforming house at 90 Hemlock Drive.
  2. ▶ 31:58The permit carries conditions: compliance with all local, state and federal requirements, periodic review, and recording at the Registry of Deeds before it takes effect.
  3. ▶ 14:38The board heard the application, an engineer's letter and town board comments, then asked about footprint, bedrooms, septic and grading.
  4. ▶ 30:50No members of the public commented, and the meeting adjourned after the single petition.

Why it matters — our reading

  • Rebuilding a non-conforming house under a special permit lets the owners replace it without bringing the lot fully into line with current zoning, so decisions like this shape what gets built in a neighborhood.
  • The questions on septic and grading are the points that bear most on neighbors and on the town's health and drainage rules, and the permit's periodic review is the mechanism for checking them.

Watch next

  • The permit takes effect only after it is filed with the town clerk and recorded at the Registry of Deeds.

legalplanning and zoning

Present: James bed the (chair); Koski (member); hans winter (member); david blatt (member); Patrick Callahan (member); Alfred we're about (member); Dan Wolfe (presenter). Names are the caption model’s hearing and may be wrong.

Votes

  1. ▶ 31:12Grant the special permit for reconstruction of the home at 90 Hemlock Drive as requested; roll call taken.passed

And 1 procedural: adjourn the meeting. (▶ 33:10).

The money

Nothing touching money was heard beyond the transfers.

Settled without a vote

  • ▶ 31:58Special permit granted with a contingency to comply with all applicable local, state and federal requirements; subject to periodic review; must be filed with the town clerk and recorded at the Registry of Deeds before taking effect.

Documents and exhibits

The town’s minutes

The town has not published minutes for this meeting.

Heard in the recording

  • ▶ 4:45application for a special permitapplication or permit, shown
  • ▶ 7:17letter from David E Ross associatesletter or email, shown
  • ▶ 12:13building commissioner's notememo, shown
  • ▶ 14:16topographical map and layout planplan or drawing, shown

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. ▶ 0:00Open Meeting Law and remote-meeting notices; petition introduced; roll callinformational · 3:18 long
  2. ▶ 3:18Reading of application, engineer's letter and town board comments for 90 Hemlock Driveinformational · 11:20 long · planning and zoning
  3. ▶ 14:38Applicant presentation and board questions on footprint, bedrooms, septic, gradinginformational · 16:12 long · planning and zoning
  4. ▶ 30:50Public comment (none), vote, post-decision instructionsvoted: special permit granted · 2:20 long · planning and zoning, legal
  5. ▶ 33:10Adjournmentvoted · 0:20 long

What the captions could not carry

  • Individual roll call vote responses are only partly rendered; the captions show approval but not a clean count.

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