HomeMy WebLinkAbout1985-05-29 Planning Board MinutesMinutes of the P eetinq of May 29, 1985
Chairman Rich called the meeting to order
first floor meeting room, r Lowell Street
with Board members D. Devine, M. Slezak a
Mr. Wood was attending the regional Water
meeting.
Correspondence
at 700 P.M. in the
(old Library building)
nd S. Trainor present
Study Committee's
Board reviewed the EIR on Riverpark 93. Copies of the first
protion will be made and given to the hoard.
Board reviewed letters from :BPW regarding the John Street pole
removal request by TASC. Executive Secretary Join Agnew called
the office and asked that the Board be informed that the Board of
Selectmen had made a verbal agreement with. TASC during
negotiations to allow the poles currently located on the westerly
side of the street to be moved to the opposite (landfill) side.
The Board has sent letters to the ?DPW and the Assessors' office
for the information requested from MDM for the John Street study.
To date, the copies needed for MDM have not been received from
BPW. The necessary information has been received from to
Assessors' office and distributed to A1DM.
TASC/BPW- John Street Pole Removal
Board discussed the background information received to date. Pls.
Virginia Adams provided the Board with information from both the
BPdJ and the Selectmen's meetings. Ms. Adams stated that the BPTV!
would like to have some support from other boards to have the
utilities buried underground. As far as she can determine, the
Selectmen were doing to use the pole and utility placement as a
bargaining chip in the negotiations, until the figure of $140,000
was received. At that point some sort of verbal agreement was
reached between TASC,/Selectmen
The Board discussed their position. After reviewing the options
the board clearly defined the 2 points to be made in their letter
of reply:
1-The Planning Board was not part of the negotiations and
cannot and will not speak to what, if any, agreements were
made; and
2-From a planning perspective, the Board feels that the
utilties should be put underground. We would hope that TASC
would be willing to bear the costs at present.. If not, the
Board would recommend that the utilities be placed
underground, try to seek funds that TASC would pay for
removing them to the east side of John Street, and ask that
the town relay any action until the f.inal report from t>DM has
been completed. This would give the boards and the town a
better understanding of the need capacity for the area.
Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Hoard unanimously voted
to have Ms. Trainor compose a letter to be sent to the BPW
outlining the Board's positions
Work Program: Schedulina/Prioritizin
Board deferred action on this matter until the full board was
present
Charter Commission
Chairman Rich and Mrs Sleza.k appeared before the Charter
Commission (CC) to discuss their thoughts on charter reform.
There was not a quorum of CC members present, so the discussions
took place informally. Chairman Rich reported that she stated to
the CC that she would like to see the Board of Survey placed
under the control of the Planning Board as it is in all but 3
other cities/town within the commonwealth m She felt that this
would provide the town with the best wmeans of controlling and
policing growth. It would also provide the greatest opportunity
for the town to carefully respond and "plan" for development
Fair_ Housing Committee
Chairman Rich has been appointed as volunteer interim. Fair
Housing Director by the Board of Selectmen. As yet, she has not
been able to meet with the Fair Housing Committee. She is
seeking an early meeting so that she can help to develop a timely
report to MCAD regarding a fair housing policy for the town.
Once this policy has been filed with MCAB, the town will have a
greater chance of obtaining funds for planning and other
improvements
Meeting Schedule
The next meeting of the Planning }Board will be on June:. 5, 1985 at
7a30 P.M.
There being no further business before the Board, it was
unanimously voted to adjourn at 8b45 P.M.
Respectfully submitted,
John D. Wood, Clerk