4/10/2003 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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Hearing Agenda 7:00 p.m., Michael Cranfield, 91 Monomoscoy Road (remove deck, build addition, landing, steps} shed, split rail fence, coconut rolls, maintain pier, ramp and float . Dave sanicki represented the applicant. Bob said that because the project involves an addition, the applicant must submit an application to the Board of Health and the applicant has not done so. Therefore, Bob recommended a continuance. Motion made, seconded and unanimously approved to grant a continuance to April 24th at 7:20 p.m. at the request of the applicant. 7:05 p,m., Judy Miller, 2 P pponesset Island Road (continued from 3/27/03). Bob reported that Mike and he visited the site with Torn , alowy, they tightened up the plan and he recommended approval. Mike recommended the requirement that the white oak be 1. ". Iletin made, seconded and unanimously carried to approve the vegetation plan subject to agreement by the applicant that the white oak be 15' caliper. 7:10 p.m., Anthony Gargiulo, 11 Ocean Bluff Drive (continued from 3/27/03). Representing the applicant were Sarah Turano-Flores, Attorney, Michael Grotzke, professional engineer, Stan Humphries, coastal geologist, ion schall, senior biologist, Phil Rollins, personal friend, and a court stenographer. Representing Wilson D. Rogers, Jr., 13 Ocean Bluff Drive, was Paul Davis} BEC, Inc. and Michael J. Fazio, Jr., The Rogers Law Firm. MIs. Turano-Flores reviewed the hearings on this application to date and described the present plan. She said Regulation 29 is the regulation at issue here, and she feels the applicant has met all the requirements. Mfr. Grotzke presented how he arrived at the delineation of the coastal bank with an inclinometer. Next, Mfr. Humphries described their method of measurement. He cited Policy 2-1 and said he stands by their delineation of the coastal bank. Bob said interpreting the coastal bank is more an art than a science. He doesn't question the work they did in tens of methodology — it's a good way to lock at it and a way to consider various slopes than may exist on the property. However, he still maintains that we have to go by the methodology we've always used: which is to take the topographical, official plan of recon which they presented, and interpret it from slope ratios from elevation to elevation along the contour lines. when he does that, it doesn't match up with what they find. He said that king by the orange line, you can go in 1-2 ft. and get a stretch of 4 ft. and a rise of 1 ft., which is a bank, and he gets that in all the orange places. He said the applicant can bring in all kinds of esoteric microsurve r points, but to his rind the commission must go by their customary methodology.