3/12/2015 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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Conservation Commission Minutes Minutes March 12, 2015 Public Hearings Mashpee Town Hall Ockway Meeting Room Commissioners: Robert Anderson, Dale McKay, Brad Sweet, John Rogers, Ralph Shaw, Louis DiMeo (Associate Member) Also Present: Drew McManus (Conservation Agent) and Judy Daigneault (Recording Secretary) CALL MEETING TO ORDER: 5:55 p.m. Public Comment Michael Talbot announced the Nitrogen Control By-law has been signed at the State House. He said the Environmental Oversight Committee will be sending a letter to the Conservation Commission and the Board of Health to a joint meeting so discussion can begin with communication, enforcement, management and the issues of carrying out the bylaw. PRE/POST-HEARING AGENDA: Administrative Review: Proposed modifications to Order of Conditions SE 43-26611 146 Waterway. Michael Talbot, representative. Michael Talbot, Environmental Landscape Consultants, reviewed a revised plan for Lawrence Pearce and Joan Allegrini for the proposed construction of a new home at 146 Waterway in New Seabury. He stated that the original plan was approved and an Order of Conditions was granted by the Conservation Commission, Mass DEP #SE -43-2661, on June 16, 2011. Mr. Talbot noted the plan was revised in 2013 to add a spa and downsize the house. Now the owners are choosing to reconfigure the house to keep it out of the flood zone. The house size has been reduced and moved back out of the flood zone which will allow for increasing the size of the pool. Mr. Talbot also noted that they have added outdoor living space, an outdoor kitchen and vegetable garden. The terrace will be enlarged where the turf was outlined in the original plan. The lawn area will be reduced and the native trees and shrubs have been increased. The project meets all of the performance standards. The Agent said these changes are within the previously approved work limit. No further encroachment with the exception of a bump out for a vegetable garden. The house is being setback with a smaller foot print. There is a reduction of turf and the mitigation that was originally proposed is above and beyond what was originally called for. They will be following the nitrogen control bylaw. The Agent recommended an approval of the administrative review. No comments from the public