3/4/2004 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

Home Browse Search

MASHIREE CONSERVATION COMMISSION (Minutes of March 4, 2004 Public Hearing I ash ee Town Hall Meeting Boon I Commissioners present: Commissioners Present: Michael Talbot, Vice Chairman, Leonard Pinaud, Clerk: Lloyd Allen, Cass costa, Jeffrey Cross: Stephanie Jones, and Ralph Shaw. staff resent: Robert Sherman, Agent, Lori Soucy, Assistant conservation Agent, and Frances Wise, Board Secretary (Michael Talbot, Vice Chairman, called the meeting to order at 6:55 p.m. Public Hearing: None. Non-Hearing Aenda Old Business: 1. Erosion Control Bank program progress report. Bob said a building at Quashnet Bogs has been donated to us by the Air Force. He distributed to the members a memo he sent to P. Costello describing the plan and requesting his opinion. He also distributed a list of supplies and suppliers researched by Diane Guidebeck, cinnamon Fern Environmental Design and construction firm at Bob's request. He said the cost to have these materials on hand will probably be several thousand dollars. His aim is to have this material available for our own use on Conservation land, but also ,make it available to the public at a slight mark-up to cover our costs. Bob Inas lined up a retired person who will be Uon call" to handle the sales to the public. 2. Regulations Sub-Committee. Bob said they met at his hone the previous night and got quite a bit accomplished. They reviewed all the regulations where work needs to be done. Michael will work on lawn standards and revegetation standards, which comprise ,most of the violations in the buffer zones and resource areas. Bob will work on a provisional by-law for protection of areas of special ecological significance. The new guidelines will be more specific than the old ones. Bob said there are additional areas that need to be worked on, and when everything is submitted to the Sub- Committee, Stephanie will review the whore package to find inconsistencies. 3. RFAA. Bob said we had a request for an administrative approval for an extension of the time frame from April 15�h to May 1 t", which amounts to changing a condition in a Certificate of compliance. Bob doesn't know if this is possible, and he thinks that the applicant may have to refile. Bob recommended that he check with the MACC, ars well as get DEP's opinion and ,Hake sure they are in the loop the whole time.