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7 <br /> Board of Selectmen <br /> Minutes <br /> October 29,.2007 <br /> APPOINTMENTS AND HEARINGS: <br /> Planning&Construction Committee-Clearing for Fire Station Project: <br /> Catherine Laurent, Assistant Director of Public Works was in attendance <br /> with Planning and Construction Committee member Steve Cook to discuss <br /> the sub-clearing for the new Fire Substation in response to the Selectmen's <br /> directive to minimize the clearing of trees. <br /> The Board of Selectmen requested that some of the existing trees be saved <br /> to maintain a buffer at the Red Brook Road subject fire substation <br /> location. <br /> It was disclosed that approximately 60,500 square feet, less than two acres <br /> is intended to be cleared for construction and safety. Within the 60,500 <br /> square foot layout is 30,000 square feet of building,pavement and <br /> sidewalk. The remainder of the cleared area will allow for retention <br /> basins, the septic system, utilities and the line of site for the driveways. It <br /> was disclosed that no specimen trees would be removed. <br /> The distance of clearing adjacent to Red Brook Road is limited to a total <br /> of 230 linear feet of clearing. Included in the distance is a 50' wide <br /> apparatus driveway. Additional landscape is proposed in the front of the <br /> building to minimize the impact of a large open space area. Rear and side <br /> buffer areas are also within the layout of the design to alleviate <br /> neighborhood concerns. <br />