2/19/2004 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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i MASHPEE CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes of February 19, 2004 Public Tearing Mathpee Tern Tall Meeting Room Commissioners resent: Commissioners Present. Jack Fitzsimmons, Charman,, Michael i Talbot, Vice Chairman, Leonard Pinaud, Clerk, Lloyd Allen, Cass Costa, Jeffrey Cross, Stephanie Jones, and Ralph Shaw. Staff present: Robert ert Sherman, Agent, Lori Soucy, Assistant Conservation Agent, and Frances Wise, Board Secretary Jack Fitzsimmons, Chairman, celled the meeting to order at 6;55 p.m. He welcomed Lloyd Allen as a full Commissioner and Jeffrey Cross as an Associate Commissioner. He then commended Bob for the excellent annual report he wrote on the Commission. Public Tearing: lone. Non-Hearin enda ole# Business: 1. Thornton Burgess Society. Bob said we had a request for children, ages -11., to stay err the Mashpee Fiver for two days as part of the nature center classes and he recommended that we approve This provided they leave it as they found it. All agreed. 2. Approval of minutes for 12/04/03, 12/18/03, 118/04 and 1122/04 Motion made, seconded and unanimously carried to approve the above minutes. 3. A Bob recommended extending the vistapruning to ///larch 1 '. Motion made, seconded and unanimously carried to approve an extension of the crista pruning period to larch 15th for this season. (B) Bob said today he and Lori visited a site where the owner had requested crista pruning, and found that the owner had already done so. Our regulations don't corer that contingency. He thinks we should establish a policy tonight in the Regulations Sub- Committee that if an owner already has an existing vista paned area that.equals or exceeds what we allow, that is their crista pruning area, and they can't have a second one. New cutting is not legal. Some areas have been cleared for a long time, so are grandfathered. This is the policy he'd like to follow until we formally adopt this regulation. There was discussion about the pros and cons of requiring the crista pruning areas to be contiguous. Lotion made, seconded and unanimously carved to approve this policy proposed by Bob.