HomeMy WebLinkAbout1993-10-18 Community Planning and Development Commission MinutesTOWN OF READING
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
MINUTES OF OCTOBER 18, 1993
A meeting of the Community Planning
the Town of Reading was herd in the
the Town Hall, 16 Lowell Street in
tober 18, 199:3. In attendance were
Baillie, Commission Secretary; and
liam Goodrich. Also present were
and Town Engineer William Robertson
order at 7:33 PM.
and Development Commission of
Selectmen's Meeting Room of
Reading, Massachusetts on,Oc-
Richard Howard, Chair; Thomas
Members Nancy Shipes and Wil--
Town Planner Jonathan Edwards
The meeting was called to
APPROVAL OF PREVIOUS MINUTES
The minutes of the Commission's meeting of September 27, 199:3
were accepted and those of October 4, 1993 were amended and ac-
cepted.
ESTABLISHMENT OF SUBDIVISION BOND AMOUNTS
Upon recommendation of the Town Engineer in a memorandum dated
October 18, 1953, the Commission voted 4:0 to approve a motion
made by Ms. Shipes, seconded by Mr. Goodrich, to set the bond
amount for Varney Circle at $77,545, and voted 4:0 to approve a
motion made by Mr. Goodrich, seconded by Mr. Baillie, to set the
bond amount for Autumn Lane at $128,840.
SIGN BY-LAWS, DISCUSSION
Mr. Howard opened a discussion of the proposed sign by-law revi-
sion to the Zoning By-Laws by reviewing briefly a condensed draft,
of the language placed on the Warrant for Fall Town Meeting. The
Commission then reviewed and began to formulate responses to the
list of revisions which had been presented by the Chamber of Com-
merce, and then proceeded to other issues, including, but not
necessarily limited to, specific merchant suggestions and com-
plaints, the matter of changeable copy reader boards on signs,
the need for research into specifics of the number of signs which
may be rendered non-conforming, the need to devise a list of com-
parisons between the proposed and current sign by-laws, and the
need to work up some simple illustrations of the visual effect of
the proposed by-law as compared with the current, sign situation.
PUBLIC HEARING--PROPOSED PRD, 59 FOREST STREET
Mr. Howard called to order a public hearing to consider Article
15 on the Warrant for Fall Town Meeting to amend the Zoning Map
to apply a Planned Residential Development--General overlay dis-
trict to property at 59 Forest Street. Messrs. Paul Finocchio
and-O.B. Latham presented proposed schematic PRD development
plans. Comments from neighbors concerned comparisons between
this proposal and development of the property as a subdivision,
and drainage and wetlands issues. The Commission then voted 4:0
to approve a motion made by Ms. Shipes, seconded by Mr. Goodrich,
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to close the public hearing, and then voted 4:0 to approve a mo-
tion made by Mr. Goodrich, seconded by Ms. Shipes, to recommend
the Article to Town Meeting.
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CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING--DEFINITIVE SUBDIVISION PLANS
ASHLEY WOODS II
Auer Ms. Shipes left the quorum, Mr. Howard then called to order
a continued public hearing to consider Definitive Plans for the
proposed Ashley Woods II subdivision. Mr. Robertson related his
comments about drainage aspects of the plans, and stated that his
concerns about this issue have been met by plan revisions. The
Commission voted 3:0 to approve a motion made by Mr. Baillie,
seconded by Mr. Goodrich, to close the public hearing; whereupon
the Commission reviewed the proposed approval conditions, and re-
quested that the decision on these plans be Placed on the next
meeting's agenda. - -
ADJOURNMENT
At 10:27 PM a motion was made and seconded to adjourn and the
Commission voted unanimously to do so.
Respectfully Submitted:
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Approved:
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Signed: ~ ~ Date:,_
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Thomas Baillie, Secretarv
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