HomeMy WebLinkAbout1994-08-29 Community Planning and Development Commission MinutesTOWN OF READING
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
MINUTES OF AUGUST 29, 1994
A meeting of the Community Planning and Development Commission of
the Town of Reading was held in the Selectmen's Meeting Room of
the Town Hall, 16 Lowell Street in Reading, Massachusetts on
August 29, 1994. In attendance were.Thomas Baillie, Chair; Bryan
Irwin, Commission Secretary; and Members Nancy Shipes and
Jonathan Barnes. Also present was Town Planner Jonathan Edwards.
The meeting was called to order at 7:38 PM.
APPROVAL OF PREVIOUS MINUTES
The minutes of the Commission's meeting of August 22, 1994 were
amended and accepted.
APPROVAL-NOT-REQUIRED SUBDIVISION PLANS
The, Commission voted 4:0 to approve a motion of Ms. Shipes,
seconded by Mr. Barnes, to endorse a Plan of Land in Reading of
William DiFiore, 133 Walnut Street, dated August 11, 1994, and
did so endorse.
PUBLIC HEARING--PRELIMINARY SUBDIVISION PLANS: HAROLD AVENUE
Mr. Baillie called to order a Public Hearing to consider Prelimi-
nary Plans for a proposed subdivision on Harold Avenue. He then
read a letter of withdrawal from the applicant's engineer. The
Commission voted 4:0 to approve a motion of Mr. Barnes, seconded
by Ms. Shipes, to close the public hearing and to accept the
withdrawal.
PROPOSED ZONING AMENDMENTS
The Commission resumed a discussion about proposed amendments to
the Zoning By-Laws which may be presented to Fall Town Meeting.
After some discussion of appropriate development density in the
older areas of Town and of questionable but still legal lot con-
figurations, the Commission requested Mr. Edwards to work up
prospective by-law language for an S-15 Zoning District with
15,000-sq.ft. minimum lot sizes and 100-foot minimum frontages,
to increase the frontage ball diameter from 60 feet to 80 feet
for'all residential zoning districts; the Commission scheduled
further deliberations on these matters for 8:00 PM on September
26th and if possible the entire meeting of October 3rd.
COMBINED PUBLIC HEARING--ASHLEY PLACE II & III AND ANSON LANE
Mr. Baillie called to order a Combined Public Hearing to consider
a proposed modification to the Definitive Subdivision Plans for
Ashley Place II, Definitive Plans for a proposed Ashley Place III
subdivision, and Preliminary Plans for a proposed Anson Lane sub-
division, all of which are adjacent to each other and all of
which have been proposed by the same applicant. Mr. Michael
Rosati, engineer for the applicant, presented all the plans.. The
Ashley Woods II modification, to accommodate the grade and con-
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figuration of the proposed Ashley Woods III plans, involves a
waiver request concerning the length of the cul-de-sac (to 1020
feet) and a reduction in utility easement width from 30 to 20
feet; the Anson Lane proposal involves a waiver request from the
required 200-foot street centerline offset distance to 45 feet.
Mr. Edwards presented his comments; no engineering comments were
provided.
Members of the public in attendance presented a petition signed
by approximately 75 citizens against the proposed offset waiver,
citing traffic problems in that stretch of Forest Street. Mr.
Baillie and David Johnson, the applicant, executed a extension
agreements for decisions on these applications to October 18,
1994. The Commission voted 4:0 to approve a motion of Ms. Shipes,
seconded by Mr. Barnes, to continue this combined public hearing
to 8:00 PM on October 17, 1994, and the Commission voted 4:0 to
approve a motion of Ms. Shipes, seconded by Mr. Irwin, to direct
the Town Planner to have William Robertson Engineers act as an
engineering review consultant on these plans at the applicant's
expense.
ADJOURNMENT
At 10:35 PM a motion was made and seconded to adjourn and the
Commission voted unanimously to do so.
Respectfully Submitt d: Approved: 1994
Signed: Date: 6
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