02/22/1996 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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22 February 1996 Page 6. CONTEWED TO 7 MARCH 1996 AT 7: .XI. WILLLAM A. CBEL109 23 Spoondrift Way, continued from 11 January 1996. Ed Stone presenting. Abutter notice receipts were provided. 1W. Sherman stated it is a sntaU lot with a freshwater wedand, Isolated Land Subject to Flooding under the act. It is a long skinny wedand that may reach one-quarter acre foot. Under the bylaw there are several factors to be addressed. The house has been pulled back. ll r. Stone stated the garage was removed and the house moved back. The house is in the center of the lot. He presented an approved Board of Health plan. ra*nage is to catch basins. Shernman will talo another look at the nutrient loading situation. The Corer ssion would consider the Fast system which would reduce nutrients by 55%. There are several other issues to preclude reaching a decision tonight. He is not disputing the wetland line clone by Brad 1W. The discussion of methodology and plant species does not meet the standards. A letter from Don Schap was along the lines needed. fir. Sherman stated more information to back up that wend line is needed. There is also the issue of setback from the wetland. The bylaw ears for 50 foot and this 018 substantiay less. The criteria for buffer strips was provided to fir. Stone. Issues are the closeness to the wetland boundary line, never cation of nutrient loading Bales and the wetland delineation itself. Sherman stated there are letters from abutters that should a read into the recon also. He stated the Conumsion made a policy decision some time ago that they are going to stick with the 55% on the advice of the Buzzards Bay project and George Heufelder, until such time as the state provisional approval for these systeim can document something better. The Chaim= called for public comments. He asked�&. Mone if he would be w0mg to hear from those present for the hearing who wished to spew, even though the hearing is to be continued? Ir. Stone agreed; he sued he will have a letter from the Cape Cod Commission at the next hearing date. Greg Taylor, mutter, representing the 230 homeowners in Bright Coves. One point h wished to make is that in achieving the Board of Health permit, there are three variances given and the way the house is currently situated on the lot means that nearly all of the upland vegetation has to be cleared on the lot. The lot is only 90 feet across the front and 100 feet deep and just about a is going to be cleared in order to achieve ghat has already been permitted. His concern is the size of the footprint of the house in relation t the size of the lot. The house is 40 feet wide and 30-36 feet deep; it is over 1200 s.f. o foot wide house is quite sizable with only 90 feet of frontage, part of which is impacted by a wetland area. The lot directly behind that, which is not environmentally challenged, the house is 27-1/2 feet wide, rather than 40, and it is 36-1/2 feet deep, a footprint of only