9/30/1986 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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Informational Meeting September 30, 1986 Page 5. Earle arsters: I think this should be subject to coming out with regulations, because if you don', have definitions, you don' t know what you are voting on. How do you describe aesthetics? It doesn' t have any meaning until you have definitions. G. cG: Since you characterize me as having given that advice, I wart to say it is absolutely not my advice. You should have regulations before town meeting acts on this. I said# I insist the towns -have rules and regulations on key def- initions efy- initions and that's what is written in here, not that they have them before town meeting. There have been town meetings that said, what do you intend to do with this part of the bylaw and the Commission would take a poll to see what they intend to do or what they think the r -gs -i l l look like. Th t would be approp- riate would that be mostly procedural l i.ke Lexington, or mostly substantive and long like Brew tor., I 'm -defini-tely not recommending that the reg s be written before the bylaw. Mar ter : .`I a6 suggesting they should perhaps go together. One should, be accepted subject to rev-iewifng the other, 13 .McG: I have no objection to a town meeting saying that they would' 1 ke to review the regu l at i- n , adopted under' a bylaw before they into effect, but that' s 'not what on do with, for i-mance, Planning Boards. P. Fan to , i I f the subs tan t i've- ,t' Pe of regulations were ava i'1 ab l e for review at the same t l me' s the bylaws, that would waylay -a l o t of problems a s opposed to the procedural , . L., Behrman: It shall be noted. Q. E. Marster : 4,3.2: one of the most difficult is jurisdiction. A couple of things in here 1 , as a layman, don' t understand, What is a wet meadow Another is, within. loo feet of any bank and within loo feet of land subject to flooding or inundation. I can think of many places that flood during a heavy rain storm. Does this also mean flood plain elevation and, especially on the surface water,. many places are with poor drainage. A. G.IIIc : This is the same as the Wetlands Protection Act except that the Gomm l s s i on will treat as a resource area this 100 foot distance from these things. They a re all in the Wetlands Act and are all defined by DEQE regulations, The Commission can adopt those definitions if it wants and the thrust of this is to make clearer than the Wetlands Act does how these things are different resources and the buffer zone under the Wetlands Act becomes a protected resource area under this bylaw. E. arsters: I don' t think the Wetlands Act includes al 1 of the Flood Plain Zones. (G. IcG: It includes u p to the 100 year flood. ) and to 100 feet beyond . c : No. ) This does. G. McG: Yes, i 'm saying the distance of loo feet is made a protected re source area under this bylaw. E. arsters: Any bank, could that be a bank where you had erosion at one time? G. McG: No, a land fora serving to confine a boder of water would be a good def- 0ni tion of a bank.