Salisbury Planning Board Minutes

Public Hearings and Regular Meeting

Wednesday, June 23, 2004

7:00 p.m.

Members Present: Chairman Harold Congdon, Bill Selig, Ron Christ, Ed Ciaraldi and Bob Straubel.

Also Present: Town Planner Lisa Pearson, secretary Katrina O’Leary

Chairman Congdon opens the meeting at 7:12 p.m.

1. New Business

a. Approval of minutes of 5/26/04

b. ANR – Ten’s Beach Club – North End Blvd.

Motion by: Bill Selig to endorse the plan as one not requiring approval under the Subdivision Control Law. Ciaraldi seconds the motion. Vote is unanimously affirmative.

c. ANR – DeLuca

Motion by: Bob Straubel to endorse the plan as one not requiring approval under the subdivision control law. Selig seconds the motion. Vote is unanimously affirmative.

d. ANR – 10 First Street – Ring’s Island

Motion by: Bill Selig to endorse the plan as one not requiring approval under the Subdivision Control Law. Christ seconds the motion. Vote is unanimously affirmative. Chairman Congdon asks the applicant to have the engineer place the pertinent variance information on the plan before the board members sign it.

e. Paonessa – Elizabeth Drive – 75-77 Folly Mill Road

Chairman Congdon asks Jim Babbin, from Millenium engineering, to update the board on the ongoing drainage problems at Elizabeth Drive. Jim Babbin mentions that they are in the process of trying to resolve the problems. Chairman Congdon continues the discussion until next meeting.

f. Palis Drive – update by Chairman Congdon

Chairman Congdon has talked with the town’s engineer, and they have come up with a way of solving the problem by putting a pipe across the street.

g. Preliminary Site Plan Review – Hekmatpour – 61 Bridge Road

Chairman Congdon is upset that this site has not come before the Planning Board for site plan review before now. Jim Babbin, Millenium Engineering, explains that the applicant has two questions that he needs guidance from the Board on: 1, the amount of parking required (it’s not clearly defined in the bylaws for this mixed use), and 2. how does the board feel about residences in commercial?

Motion by: Ron Christ for a site visit. Selig seconds. Ciaraldi abstains from voting. Vote is unanimously affirmative.

2. 7:30 PM Public Hearings

a. (Continued) Site Plan Review – Carbone – 29 Railroad Avenue

Jim Babbin, Millenium engineering, is representing the applicant: Peter Carbone. They are proposing to demolish the existing structures and build 6 new condominium units on piles. He explains parking, roof runoff, plantings, trash pickup, lighting, water and sewer connections, and the removal of the existing pavement.

Ron Christ asks if the chimneys are real. Babbin answers that they are not. Vince Mauti, 10 Brisset, asks questions regarding the new construction.

Selig states that the trash pickup information needs to be put on the condo document, also the bottom two feet of the building needs to remain open.

Motion by Bill Selig: to approve the site plan conditional upon the condominium documents specifying that all trash needs to be contained within the building. Straubel seconds. Congdon would like to see the doors open. Christ agrees. Straubel offers an amendment to the motion that the condominium document include an enforcement provision that the bottom of all doors need to remain open. Selig seconds the amendment. Congdon, Selig, Ciaraldi, and Straubel vote in favor of the amendment. Christ is opposed. Amendment passes. Vote on the original motion as amended: Congdon, Selig, Ciaraldi, and Straubel vote in favor of the motion. Christ is opposed. Motion passes.

b. Site Plan Review – Kennedy – 55 Railroad Avenue

The applicant, Robert Champety, explains the proposed changes at 55 Railroad Avenue. They would take down the 2 existing structures and resite one structure including 4 townhomes. The structure will be less than 35 feet in height. The utility room will be enclosed on the ground floor. All parking will be under the building. The width of the building is 50 feet. Chairman Congdon states that the expansion of 3 to 4 units could be a violation of the sewer grant. The bottom floor will be sand. Christ mentions that there will have to be two separate utility boxes. Straubel asks about trash. Christ answers that it will be in an enclosed dumpster. Utilities need to be shown on the plan – they are presently missing.

Abutters comments: Anthony Tuccelli views the plans and has no comments. Nicole Stevens, 62 Railroad Ave. is concerned about all the town homes being built.

Motion by Christ to continue to the next meeting. Selig seconds the motion. All members vote in favor. Motion passes.

3. Other Business

a. Planning Board signs last meetings approvals.

b. Chairman Congdon signs off on a building permit at 11 Railroad Avenue.

c. Chairman Congdon and Pearson discuss the Wolpert Form C Subdivision

signatures on the approval letter.

Addendum to Minutes of June 23 , 2004 , per Planning Board request of 7/28/04, by Chairman Jack Christian, by watching the audio-visual tape of the 6/23/04 meeting:

At the start of the discussion about the Wolpert Subdivision it started by Harold saying.

“ I have a question on Wolpert “. “ By whose authority did you ( Lisa) go ahead and get these signatures”? “ Did I ask you to go “? Harold said “ these gentlemen want to rescind their signatures” and points to Ed and Bill and asks Bill “ Isn’t this right “? Bill said “ I just want to clarify that this is for approval “? Lisa said “ Yes it is and that is exactly what I told you when you signed it” Harold said “ Why did you go out and get them signed “? Lisa said “ I asked you about a 2:00pm meeting to get them signed because they had to be signed before 3:00pm and you never called me back “. Harold said “ then they should not have been signed , they should have been signed at the meeting “ !. There was a small discussion among Board members about the legality and then Harold said “ Eddie ,do you want to withdraw your signature “ and Ed said “ YES “

4. Correspondence

a. Members decide to continue their review of the water study for 30 more days.

5. Other Business

Ed Ciaraldi thanks the selectmen for the privilege of serving on the Planning Board. He is formerly withdrawing from the Planning Board.

6. Adjournment

Motion by Selig to adjourn. Ciaraldi seconds the motion. Vote is unanimously affirmative.

Meeting adjourns at 8:35 p.m.

Approved by:_____________________Date:________