3/14/1979 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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the ,ray up to the road and it was designated as marshland. Ir. Morse asked about landscaping and Mr. Tavares said that for aesthetic purposes. he could get involved with something that will s often and tie this house .into the ground - he mentioned shrubs, black pines, etc* He further said that the Commission should have been clearer in the order of Conditions, that the Commission should maybe have said that this plan was not acceptable because of the elevations. Mr. Morse said that he got the approval and was thrilled and then Mrs. IeLory called hire. In discussing the pians, Mr. Tavares said that the garage definitely is an obvious thing e- it's out of character. Nor. Spohr shows a to 1 proposed elevation on a 31 existing grade � that's 71of fill right there. Mr. Buckingham said that thatts why he said to Mr. Spohr that it can only be a carport. Mr. Morse said that he met Mr. Spohr down there and he said that even though it was a lot of fill, he (Spohr) was going to ramp it into the garage. Mr. Buckingham said . that he can't think or speak for another man's ideas. but it's obvious when it says "original contour not bealtered" that the part that was dome in there was not within the spirit - and the amount of scraping that was done isn't within the septic area. It was mentioned haat you have to scrape it to the sand. Mr. Buckingham had a discussion with Mr. Dedecko about walls and footings and residential structures in the flood plain zone. Mr. Dedecko said that if you use the 10" gall, you wouldn f t meed a footing. Mr. Buckingham said that what you would have is a thickness line a- it would be realistically thicker by scale in order to support it. Mir. Dedecko said that you would have to level the thing off so you could pour* a. walk.. It would have to be brought up to 6f to get any mind f foundation on theme , you would have to put an 2-11 wall up there to build house. Mr. Buckingham said that the Comnilission told this to Mr. Spobr. Yxe Dedecko said he couldn't see any harm in clean fall underneath the house # have to put some fill around the house - if here was a flood., the house would be washed away. Mr. Buckingham said that we have a book which came out from HUD when this flood pain was started, with reooranendations to builders within the flood plain. They give the formula for determining the amount of water resistance that a f oundm ation will strand for and what you must plan for. Mr. Dedecko said that he does r It get involved too much with conservation commission - he gets involved with high and dry land and builds. He wanted to know ghat ham this fill was doing to this particular parcel of property am it is 'clean fill and better than what was there before, Mr. Buckingham said that the state code says that it cant be done - Tire cannot vary in some .instances and that's one of them. Mr. Dedecko said that if it's going to affect the building of a house, you can alter or change the contour. He also said that he can't see anything wrong that's happening at that lot - it's the logical gray of doing it - bring in nice clean fill and build the house properly. Mr. Buckingham said that this is the conflict in this instance. Mrs. DeLory said that the fill will have to be taker out - it is 301 from Great River lw take it out and then go from there. She furow Cher said that "altering" consists of moving "one teaspoon". Mr. Dedecko cora merited that nothing would ever be dome if you couldn't have variances* Mr. Buckingham said that when the law saes that you can't do it, the Con. servation Commission cart 1 t go over that. Mrs. DeLory showed Mr. Morse and Mr.