8/24/1989 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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f , August 24,- 199 Proposed !Regulations Page 1 . FERIRAGA MG SPEAKING, Contin ed : Let's say that we don' t have 0 the structures Licensed under 91 , some of those probably are causing environmental damase, but I have to feel that some of them are- getting along just fine out there . We all can appreciate that Mother Mature has an incredible ability to adapt to certain situations and what we consider to be an engineering standard in today' s world for building seawall or dock is something we ' ve learned over time. It doesn' t mean an old structure that wouldn' t meet today' s engineering standards is not sitting there in a perfectly healthy environment. Just because i won ' t meet a stress grade or dimensional standard of today, it doesn' t mean that Mather mature hasn' t adapted to that structure being there in her presence all hose years and I think any Home regulatfon we come up with should take that into consideration and hopefully avoid that argument that we' re not doing damage, why should we rip it out u-st, because the boards aren' t an inch apart, or whatever. fully support the issue that Mr. Fiorentino raised, the types f impact, and again, I 'm not talking public access here because I believe that' s the Mate' s job and I believe environmental issues are our Conservation Commission' s ,,fob. I think the type of accuracy demanded on this documentation is not to the 100th of a foot or an inch and doesn ' t require a licensed surveyor or engineer necessarily to prepare that information because the types of impacts really don' t register on that scale and it should be a lighter requirement in terms of documenting the existing conditions. That lighter requirement" could be some mind of a standard format that we might develop, the Commission might develop, and some form of certification from an owner having to do with the time when the structure was created, dimensions, and then have, and I don' t mean to pint more work on Bob' s backbecause I know he' s overloaded now, but then by requesting the Agent to come out to review the drawing, review the dock, and basically attest that as of that date it is an accurate representation of what that structure is. I think that is away' that as a community we could all benefit. Finally, I think that, again, I really don' t consider the people who work for the Covm nweal th of Mass. to be all no l edgea-b I e, or geniuses, and as such, I ' m not being a wise guy, FI say ,that in all true good faith, we' re all prom o think that we 'know too much. The only difference is the people who write 91 and can enact 91 have more power to do things than we do; here ' th i s evening and that' s what concerns me, I feel we mar see something here where the State is all Sung-ho, let' s Bet 91 rolling, let' s charge forward, and five gears from nbw we may find that 91 is not what, it 'was represent" d, that it' s goifig to fall on deaf ears once again. Maybe what we ought to do. i f we are going to mirror 91 , we should have a period of time, once 91, -is -enacted, where we let the State run 91 a little bit of time. Once we see if the State is going to stick with 911 then maybe we can get on the band wagon. If the State is bombarded with problems and they can' t keep up with the applications and they can" t do the job properly, I hate to see us put our town into that same situation. I think there should be that buffer period- where e see a little bit of the -State experience and then we possibly go forward at that point. KG LI S Y* I would Sive an educated guess that what we have in town is probably 750 piers and dock, not licensed, approximately 200-250 licensed, t'hat ' s only the besinning. When you get into hese walls,