6/27/1996 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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CONSERVATION COMMISSIO PAGE Il 8;10 . i. : Application of Owen Welch Continued Bob Shermanf-: The common land abutts the salt marsh, and according to the As esor' Maps It appeared that a lot of the work was In the association plant. What we have to deal with/ourselves is what you are willing to do for remediation and what you between wish to do in the future in terms of maintaining the vegetation in a certain state. We have discussed some of those issues with you. We cannot come to any firm con- clusion tonight; we cannot issue any permit, until we have the association tell u that they would consent to it. We can only talk in general tens tonight. If you Irish to maintain the vegetation at a certain height as we discussed, 5 or 6 feet, usually 6 feet, under the guidelines we useof the University of Rhode Islandguide- lin , what we would also require as we do in these oases is Coastal Management Resources - ,the planting of soma-shrubs to compensate for what was taken down, and we would normally do that by conditioning. I know you worked with Kathy; has there been any discussion about what shrubs you might like to plant. Mrs. Welch: 'des, I did considerable work myself and reviewed it with Kathy. Kathy, you have a colored drawing. We are talking abort a small strip which is off one corner of our property, where there were principally Oak stumps growing. This is the area where we were truing these wild Oak stumps of growth, We have agreed to replant -Juniper., Rosa.,,/and Scotch Broom. Ro a Bob Sherman: Juniper and Rosa Ra oza are a goad choice. Scotch Brooms probably 'is not. Bayberry would be mucin better, but we can discuss that further. As 1 said, I think we are probably going to 'have have an f f,ficial representative e7ntati e f the socia t ion. Elliot Rosenberg: 1f we had something in writing that they join in the application, BobSherman: leo, they did not come tonight. But I think under these circumstances the best thing we can do is take testimony and continue. Elliot; The problem is we cannot issue ars order,' on somebody -else' -property. Mrs. Welch: We are not even asking that. We are asking to keep our own property line here, which we have since defined. .Bob Sherman: Some is on the common land; some is on thein land so we have to have agreement between the association as to what they would allow on their land and we have to have their agreement that they agree with this plan. "first of all, would you be amenable to substituting something else for the Scotch Broom, which is really not a good wild life habitat? e h .To p Bob Sherman: I think the best thing for me to do would be to meet -with Mr. Rintone t the site. I will try to arrange that. But we will have' to continue this hearing. Public Comment: Lee Dubin who lures across the street from the Welch's, I witnessed at least thee to fie fifteen foot cedars being levelled by the person who was doing the work on their property. The stumps are stip there if you would like to measure the stings.