8/28/1996 ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS Minutes

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and twenty-five units to a well site. And we' re talking not about a zone of contribution. We're talking about the wells here and the development is here. Uh. . . secondarily to that, Town Meeting voted not to extend the Special Permit past 1994 . That went to Town Meeting as well and Town Meeting said "no. " In our opinion, it should expire in 1994 . And this all happened in 195 . Uh. . .So, I . . . I don' t think there is a direct correlation between the ' 71 . . . I think if you look at the two articles, I think you are going to see a substantial difference. Thank you. The Chairman recognized Russell Babcock. Russell Babcock: The conditions which the water District taxed the Board of Selectmen to put in were the minimum conditions . They chose to leave out three of them. They dial not consult with the Water District about it at all . Now, I wrote those conditions and they were the minimum conditions which the DEP would have set. I suggest to you that if the four hundred and twenty-five units and the three hundred and forty thousand square feet of land are there now we would not have a well site since the DEP would never have approved it . And the second point is, which may have nothing to do with this Board, but it does to us as citizens, if we lose this well site- -would somebody tell us where we are suppose to go to get some more water. The Chairman recognized Deirdre Greelish. Deirdre Greelish: One other question I think I might have for you. And that is that uh. . . in all the Special Permits I 've seen you rule on, uh. . . that become very sophisticated with lots of conditions- -for example, Willowbend or Southport, that take tremendous amount of time on your part and become very, very complex documents trying to allow the development and still protect the public interest, they'd have to be filed. And in this case all that ' s recorded for even tax purposes, is a piece of land called Section 5 that allows twenty-five units to go on it . That ' s what . . . that ' s what still appears on the books . Therefore, uh. . . it ' s just a piece of paper right now. I suppose it ' s a contract that they can show to somebody and say, "See, you can put twenty— four hundred and twenty-five units here. " But there' s nothing been recorded and registered that would help a buyer. There is a. . . there is a condition on this property because of the well field nearby. So, it ' s a very funny situation and it hasn' t followed the procedure that would have been in place had you been uh. . . involved, I believe. The Chairman recognized Christopher Burden. Christopher Burden: I 'd just like to make uh. . . a couple of comments . Chris Burden, with New Seabury Company L. P. Uh. . .back when this . . .when the Town voted for this transfer, this vote was -16-