2/12/2015 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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cesspools. A new title V septic system will be installed. They have received approval from 3 the Board of Health. The Agent stated the lot is completely void of natural vegetation and because of the lot size there would not be any standards for retention of native vegetation. The Agent recommended a negative determination. No comments from the public. Motion: Mr. Shaw moved a negative determination, seconded by Mr. Sweet. Vote unanimous. 5-0. 6:92 Aldo R. and Sandra Esposito, 25 Sand Dollar Lane. Proposed replacement of existing retaining wall and installation of mitigation plantings. RDA Resource Area: Coastal Dank, Buffer Zane. Darrell Chapman was representing the applicant and explained the existing retaining wall is made of wood and is rotten. The proposed work is to add a concrete wall after the wood retaining wall has been removed. There will be a bump -out in the middle of the wall footprint and it will be within six feet of the coastal bank. All work will be done by hand. The Agent referred to the landscape plan and the engineering plan which shows the delineation of the coastal bank. This is entirely within the buffer but the wall is proposed to get closer within the buffer to the top of the coastal bank so that is why it requires mitigation. The Agent reviewed pictures of the wall and stated the mitigation plan is acceptable. It is a basic hardscape landscape improvement. Some of the plantings going on the coastal bank is an improvement because some of the coastal bank is barren. The Agent recommended a negative determination. No comment from the public. Motion: Mr. Shaw moved a negative determination, seconded by Mr. Sweet. Vote unanimous 5-0. 6:15 Timothy J. and Deborah S. Martin, 7 Russell Road. Proposed realignment of existing gangway and float. RDA Resource Areas: Land tinder Ocean, LSCSF, salt marsh, BVW. Mark Burtis, Little River Boat Yard, was representing the applicant and explained the proposal is to change the position of the float which is parallel to the shoreline right now. The applicant would like to turn it perpendicular and push it out into Great River a little further and add a gangway as well. Two piles would be moved to new locations according to rotated dock. He stated the project was approved by the Shellfish Warden and Harbormaster.