4/3/1986 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Executive Session

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Conservation Commission Executive Session April 3 , 1986 Page 2. Stan Humphries_ spe in y - continued: I requested a meeting with Brett Burdick,, Peggy Collins and myself to try and isolate the technical issues . Vfie are coastal geologists and we all have different views on how the problem should be solved , but the main objective of the meeting was to came to terms with what would be a sensible order of conditions . I frankly went through that order of conditions that was drawn up by Peggy and Brett and had criticisms on all five orders that they had drawn up. Peggy was very positive about the fact that the meeting would only take fifteen minutes or a half-hour in length. I reassured her . that it might be a little 1 onge than that and it turned out to be about two andone-half hours because we went through 'it all , point by point, raising positive and negative aspects, on everything from geological cir- cumstances and environmental impacts to some political impacts and even into enforcement because having a sound 'order of conditions that protects the environment is one thing but it certainly has to be enforced properly. We concluded that meeting with what I thought was a good order of conditions . I drafted a aero stating those conditions in a Pe ri ar,y 111th letter that I bel i ev.e the commission has. In that letter there was a rei to ati on for the most part of the conditions that were previously drawn up by Peggy and Brett with an additional two or three, I believe. The next step that I thought was very important was to try to address the outstanding issue of the enforcement order which essentiallv prOMDted the lawsuit. o, I warted to meet with , and did meet with , several members of the conservation commission out on the site. What we basically concluded on the site was that it seems as though in the enforcement order there was actually further interpretation of the conditions that were placed on the project 43316 that ra l maybe shouldn't have been addressed at that time and can be addressed in th-i s nett project,, 46395. Specifically , putting beach material , or beach sand, on the beach where there is debris or quite bit of miscellaneous material out there on the beach. That seemed to be one of the points brought out by the enforcement order, the debris covered by sand. The second point of the enforcement order~ naturally involved the use of Clamshell Road. The only additional point I wanted to make there i that, in my opinion, by abandoning that access way that is closest to the beach and filling that area in on the seaward side of house, you are actually benefitting with greater~ stability provided for the band instead of using that access way. Be New Seabury moving their entrance point to a more landward po ition , I think that was more environmentally satisfactory to their proposal to put beach nourishment out there We, that is , the commission members present at that time and I came up with a few other~ ideas of additional conditions , one being that I believe was in reference to having all debris removed from the beach before sand is placed on the beach and there 1s also great concern about a bond issue being pro- vided to cover any liability of work that is improperly done. There may have been some other~ issues considered since thea that I am not aware of at this point and I think that part of this presentation night be suggestions for orders.