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6. <br />• Mr: Makunas: "So it is the date of the by-law change. <br />If it is in separate ownership at the date of the by-law change <br />Don't emphasize separate ownership at the creation of the lot <br />**'frequently all of the lots are in the same name when they <br />are created." <br />Ms. Lane: Precisely - that's what the Seabrook case in <br />Wellfleet says -- if you try to read this literally it makes <br />no sense because the date of creation and endorsement, whichever <br />was sooner, they were usually in common ownership, so that makes <br />no sense. Section 6 is a disaster -- I would not be surprised <br />if there is another case challenging Goldhirsh in some respects. <br />Prior to the Seabrook case nobody thought that anybody qualified <br />for separate lot exemption." <br />Mr. Regan: "What happens if it is in a subdivision and <br />the Town forced it together on the tax maps?" <br />Ms. Lane: "The tax maps don't count for anything. They <br />don't establish zoning or defeat zoning." <br />Mr. Makunas: "How important is frontage on a lot? Our <br />by-laws have.certain frontage requirements and lots that were <br />created long ago may not have that." <br />• Ms. Lane: "Frontage is very important but on your isolated <br />lots one of the things that is frozen is frontage." <br />Mr. Makunas: "My understanding is that the key to frontage <br />is not the fact that you've got so much on the road it's for <br />public saftety... access. You could have frontage but'no safe <br />way to access the lot." <br />Ms. Lane: "That's true for the planning board but for <br />zoning purposes ...." <br />Mr. Makunas: "If they come before us for a Special <br />Permit...." <br />Ms. Lane: "If a street is on a subdivision plan it is <br />O.K." <br />Mr. Govoni asked about lots created by Variances on an <br />ANR plan. <br />Ms. Lane. The Sequin case said that public safety and <br />vehicle access.... If you were to grant a Variance it does not <br />tie the hands of the Planning Board to grant a waiver but they <br />had better have a very good reason for not granting it if there <br />is adequate access to the lot." <br />• Mr. Hauck: "Paragraph 1 - if it has a house on it it goes <br />