8/24/1989 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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August 24, 1989 Proposed Regulations Page 8. BEHRMAN: You can also submit written comments without being at the hearing, so anyone is welcome to do that. CHAIRMAN:: I t has been stated In the paper also. IITA: l hope this meeting will be reported in the paper and that comment will appear also. The address for written comments was given by the Conservation Agent. ALDER : My first comment was that I questioned whether this can be done at this meeting or at Town Meeting and since then, someone else asked the question and you came up with the fact that it can' be done by this Commission. I would respectfully ask before you make that conclusion that you ask Town Counsel , based upon my first comments , SEI ERG: We have. PETER SALIS: My parents have owned property on # ashpee-- akeby Pond for 30 years and coming down to Mashpee for 15 years more than that. When we bought the property it had a dock 30 feet long. The total value of the dock at that time was probably a few dollars. Since that time, we have rebuilt the dock each year as needed , as boards rot. I is essentially the sane structure as when we bought the house. The total value of the dock now is approximately $100 , we figured, checking out the wood and few nails .involved. The deepest part of the dock is probably up to my waist. My father is 72 and the structure i one that I can put in for ray parents to use. We cannot of ford the kind of money being suggested for engineering to make this dock comply or whatever it has to do. I assume the dock would have to be consider- ably nsid r- ably different than it is now to make it anything an engineer would cert i`fy or put his name on. Although it' s sturdy, it' s a couple of planks on solme sawhorses. We think that in our case, as • ,ell as a lot of others, there should be some grandfathering clause involved since especially the State regulations that Mr . Halpern spoke about talk about the wetland, about removing; filling o`r altering and I know, speaking for ourselves, our dock does not remove r fill any wetland and I think it' s highly questionable whether it alters. At the point it doss touch the shore, it is 3 - 2 X ' s resting on shore. I think it is a treen does .burden to put on anyone. CHAIRMAN:: I s your dock a temporary dock,- you take It out? (It is a temporary, yes) . It would not be subject SALEfIS: To the State regulations, right? what l understood was that the Town was trying to pass regulations similar for temporary. CHAIRMAN: No, sir. ' SALE I Well , I still think that what I said I stand by. CHAIRMAN:: Cer•tainl y what you say applies to permanent docks as well , th, cost factor, we understand that. Chapter 91 'does not apply to temporary docks. SALE I S* And the town? CHAIRMAN: At this point the Town has no intention of including temporary docks. We will mirror what the- state will do.