7/22/2004 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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40 MASHPEE CONSERVATION COMMISSION ISSION Minutes of July 2 , 2004 Public Hearin 1ashpee Town Hall Meeting Room I Commissioners present: Jack Fitzsimmons, Chairman, Leonard Pin ud, Clerk, Lloyd Allen, Cass Costa, Jeffrey Cross, Stephanie Jones, JohMiller and Ralph h thaw. i Staff present. Robert Sherman, Agent, and Frances Vise, hoard Secretary. Jack Fitzsimmons,s, Chairman, called the meeting to order at 6:55 p.m. Public Comment: . Don rl egathli , McLean Fealty, requested our action on a 20 ft. easement on Great Neck Road South. He said a couple of months ago it was almost unanimously approved at the annual Town Meeting. Basically this involves about 2,300 linear feet that belongs to the Conservation Commission. There are about 75 trees in this 20 ft. easement, and only four have a diameter of 14" at about waist height. The environment analysis on shade trees was done by Horsley and Witten, who worked closely v+ th the tree garden. Phase l involves Conservation Commission land, Phase ll involves a coastal bank, so he will have to come back to the Commission as this phase gets under way, and Phase III involves some wetland, for which they will file a notice of Intent. Bob said he has not yet had corroboration from Torun Counsel and Joyce Mason that this work does not need a typical Town Meeting vote, a Conservation Commission vote and a State Legislature vote. It may be that it does not, and he will bring it up with Torn Counsel at a meeting on Monday. Bob doesn't think the project is at all objectionable in that it serves a public purpose and has minimal impact on our Conservation land, but he wants to be sure we are on firm legal ground. He had no objection to our approving Phase I contingent on Town Counsel's approval. Motion made, seconded and unanimously carried to approve Phase I of the work on Town Conservation lead contingent upon Town bounsel"s saying that a State Legislature approval is not needed. 2. Anthony Ricci said he and his wife just purchased property at 14 Pern parte. When they bought the property they had approwil to install a dock. His question now is what lurid of a boat can they be to the dock—how do they determine the size of the boat, depth draft, etc. The lover mean fide level in the area is about 19-20". He would like to buy about a 23 ft. boat and have n ancillary voter of about 6-10 horsepower mounted on the beck which he would use to get out to deeper waterwhere he could drop the engine on tilt or run it on full bottom. Bob said he is reluctant to take the precedent of waiving our policy on the mean tide level. Also we have new dock and pier guidelines from CEP that we have not yet had a chance to integrate with our regulations. However, Bob said he doesn't have any objection to considering it as an amended order. Non-Hearinq Agenda A TRUE COPY, T - Old Easiness: - OF5 r� ` 4 r 't L �`;