10/25/1994 SOUTH CAPE BEACH ADVISORY Minutes

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F4 MINUTE SOUTH CAPE BEACH STATE PARK ADVISORY COMMITTEE OCTOBER 2 , 1994 MEMBERS PRESENT: Chai an Morris- Kirsner, John Cramer, Renee Fudal a, Francis LeBaron, Jerry Monaghan, winni f red Woods, Rep, Tom Cahir ABSENT: Patrick Ellis; Excused: Catherine Conroy, Ben Lofchie, Bruce McHenry, Bill Martiros ALSO PRESENT: Robert Sherman, Conservation Agent, Richard Flemming, South Cape Beach Supervisor, William Rennes, members of the public. Il MINUTES of PREVIOUS S MEETING Minutes of July 2 , 1994 were accepted as presented. III REPORTS Bob Sherman, Conservation Agent was invited to report on the action taken relative to DEM's petition. Mr. Sherman provided copies of the Permit Issue for members of the committee, and stated this project was long known to the advisory committee. Mr. Sherman continued, the original, MEPA documents had been pored over, and there had been some concerns raised by the Natural Heritage and the Endangered Species Programs . These concerns had not been specifically addressed in the Notice of Intent filed with the Conservation Commission, CM's Coastal Geologist was asked to visit the area and review the project and also requested the Natural Heritage and EndangeredSpe- cies .Program to visit the project. There was absolute cooper- ation with all of the state agencies relative to these reviews. The issues were ,agreed upon and resolved, on this basis, the Conservation Commission was able to prepare the permit. The Major parts of this project were relative to the creation of the parking lot. It became apparent that the Natural Heritage had some legitimate concerns with the dune restorations, in that, if they had restored it as originally presented, it might have presented problems for the ,piping plovers in terms of their ability to get from where they feed to where they nestO A meeting was arranged between DEM, Natural Heritage, and Ci. The details were worked out; the difference between our pro- posal and what was permitted, was the elimation of the dune restoration part of the work, and the approval of the parking lot and revgittion. An agreement was arrived at where, once the boardwalk was built, and found to interfere with nesting plovers, there would be an alternative boardwalk location; would be subject to our approval.