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Board of Appeals Minutes - February 14, 1990 Page 7. 0 Nicklus (cont.) Anthony Ferragamo, Chairman of the Planning Board, had been outside of the conference room during the Nicklus hearing. He returned to the meeting and asked to address the Board. He asked if the Board had received a memo from the Assistant Town Planner on the Nicklus application. Mr. Halpern replied that the Board had ignored it. Mr. Ferragamo: The Planning Board's opinion was not accurately represented once again. The Planning Board's recommendation to the Zoning Board of Appeals relative to Mr. Nicklus' application was that the Planner's office was to correspond for tonight's hearing and to let them know that although the use of a model home was not considered in the issuance of the original Special Permit, and, as such, we did not appreciate the fact that this was like an add-on permit.... You come in looking for one thing that is permitted and conditioned and then, little by little, you add on and things change. We don't agree with that way of doing things. We also did agree that the relief should be granted because we felt that the construction of the model home would move • the project along and, if the project moved along, ultimately the Town would get the road improvement money and that it was in everybody's best interest to do that. Our concern was that age-old thing, Mike, where you come in, get the permit and then it starts to modify as the years go by. Mr. Makunas: We totally agree with you. Let me explain what we did since you were not here to know how we treated that. We did exactly what you wanted us to do. We are allowing them to build the model home but, in return for that, we have in writing a payment schedule for the $100,000 regardless of whether they sell another home. (Mr. Ferragamo was given a copy of the memo from the Asst. Town Planner). Mr. Ferragamo: That's fine. That's all we wanted to see added. I can't believe that this memorandum doesn't clarify that. Mr. Makunas: I made a comment at a Selectmen's meeting about everybody doing everybody else's job. As an example, the Assistant Town Planner now has become Chairman of the Planning Board. Mr. Ferragamo: Well, maybe or maybe not. What happens is this -- we are paying salaries to people to work on behalf of this community. No members of your Board are paid and no members of my Board are paid. Most people who serve on our Boards have to work every day for a living.