8/24/1989 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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+ August 243 1989 Pro-posed Regulations Page 12* NEIL B S : I am a member of the Harbormaster' s Department but he speaks very adequately for himself. I prefer- to peak as a taxpayer. I say, as I attended the meeting down at Cape Cod Community College, that I didn' t sense that grandfathering was impossible. By the end of the meeting, there was some indication'-that it would be considered and I would strongly urge you people to write in your letters of protest to emphasize that where you have a seasonal thing under the control of the -Harbormaster, at least that" s one set of facts. But where you permanent ermanent structures of v-arying degrees of conformity, that they not forget that the grandfathering is more than desirable to the majority of our taxpayers. TONY FII AMMO, RiverRoad: I am happ-y to, ear that if we' re goin to have a Hoge Rule Cock Bylaw that it will mirror Chapter 91 . 1 am also concerned that we even have a Home Rule Dock Bylaw for the reasons of Chapter 91 . 1, think the Commonwealth wants to enact a e ulation which has been around since the 1 but has now decided after many years g into an enforcement mode and actually start to LSI ' with it the bare reasons for doing so. icy understanding is' what they cant to do is to give all of the citizens of the cocoon- ' wealth access to tidelands and other areas that we all should -have access to and gnat' s why they have a Chapter 91 license. I don' t think the Commission should get into an issue that has to do with public access, I feel the Commission is here to protect the enviro � me nt and to administer Chapter 131 and whatever Home Pule Regulations we, as a community, feel would be appropriate* I feel the Chapter 91 license program is not so much an. attempt to protect the environment it is t give the citizens f the Commonwealth the rights to ,water access and I think if we want to have a hone rule dock bylaw, it should e oriented towards protecting the environment and directly related to 131 and not 914 1 received a handout earlier circulated by the Harbormaster) that of all the structures n the waterfront in that suggests ashpee today may not have Chapter 91 licenses which does not surprise . . me because there has been a hiatus for many years in which the State didn' t give 91 licenses. Does anyone i the xoom this evening have a feeling for what 90% of those structures equal in teihs of numbers? Is it 300 cocks, is it ' x anybody taken the time t invento y what 9. %- our � seawal,ls, has a ► structures might be in this town . o . Okay, the reason I ask that is because if it' s a lar8e number and there' s a limited grandfathering or amnesty period, let a shorten the whole thing, Iwork under contract to a-�►eral Mate i agencies; very little - gets none n the course of a ger* little is really going to get done under 91 week. I have a fear � � on the State level in the end. This is just the typical stuff that goes on every decade or so and a lot of people get caught in the cracks when this happens. I would not want to see a situation where we have such an overwhelming number of structures that have to be brought into compliance or processed in a condensed period o time g that the ,fob can' t be dome properly , either by theomonwealth or the Town. I think that before we can talk about grandfathering or an amnesty period , we should have a handle on the. numbers, both in terms on the state level . Tom, how many of these of our community and also things have to be processed in that period? I would like to see that the Mate has the staff t do it before they even enact 91 and 1 would like to know that we' re prepared ared o do it too , so we can keep the pair