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16 Great Neck RoadNorth <br />wlashyee, -Massachusetts oz649 <br />were fascinated about the horsepower regulations and asked what else could be done. <br />Everyone wants clean water. <br />Mr. Richardson posed the question out of the properties impacted, how many can even vote? <br />Mr. Lehrer does not have the answer for that question. For this proposal, he is asking the <br />Board to consider two different options. He initially conceived doing this as a zoning bylaw for <br />purposes identified, understanding there are grandfathering and provisions in 40A Section 6 <br />that would impact long term viability. After Town Meeting, they would ask the Conservation <br />Commission and the Board of Health to bring their regulations into consistency. All three <br />documents are communicating with one another. If they were to go regulatory pathway first, <br />he would then want to ask Town Meeting to make some amendment to recognize those <br />regulatory changes. It's either zoning bylaw first with a 2/3 vote at Town Meeting and <br />promulgate regulations thereafter, or go the route of the Conservation Commission and go <br />back to Town Meeting as a housekeeping article. <br />Ms. Waygan would like the Conservation Commission route first. Ms. Faulkner agreed, stating <br />these regulations are desperately needed. There is no ambiguity and it tells everyone they are <br />not losing the ability to build there, just have to go about it a certain way. The horsepower, she <br />wonders how big an impact it truly is. She also feels the fertilizer has a large impact and the <br />landscapers will be objecting to that. People who are going to buy it will travel to other towns <br />to purchase it. We have to take some methods to change this town. <br />Mr. Richardson stated there is an enforcement issue with fertilizer. He is on board with what is <br />being proposed, he just doesn't agree with taking it away from the voters. <br />Mr. Fulone has a clarifying question about Mr. Lehrer's memo, the second to last paragraph, <br />last sentence. It states "we may consider making these regulatory changes through <br />Conservation Commission regulations and Board of Health regulations, they can be <br />promulgated without a Town Meeting vote". It feels like, because it didn't go well at the last <br />Town Meeting, we are going to take it somewhere else so it goes the way we believe it <br />should, without taking it back to the town. Regardless of it is being done for all the right <br />reasons, which is how he feels. Public engagement is critical, and for the engagement they <br />will have the same faces that always come. He referred to the LCP engagement with a town <br />of 15,000 people, and the survey brought forth 600 responses. <br />Mr. Lehrer noted when restrictions are being contemplated it ignites a fair amount of <br />participation. His memo came as a result of feedback and he wants to provide options. His <br />position is they have to go through the education engagement, understand impacts of <br />proposals, replicate results when doing analysis, and thoughtfully describe impacts to the <br />14 <br />