Post by Peggie Blizard on Oct 3, 2014 13:39:05 GMT -5
Last nights Planning Board meeting was not heavily attended by our group but I can certainly understand as we are all sick of meetings and very tired of listening to the same old people.
But a plan was presented for 78 Main Street and I spoke as did Mavis and one of my neighbors. The plan, as I said, is almost ok. The only real problem is that they are asking for 4 floors which will make it as high as the white edge on the Oceana Press building. It will completely wipe out any speck of a view from the aqueduct, the brick house (Gagliardis) and from our second floor. It will also block out the light from that little house which will be next to it.
Therefore, if everyone would write a letter (email is ok but hard copy is better) to the mayor and board with copies to the planning board and the AHRB, asking that a 4th floor be denied, that might help. The zoning code which covers this is 300-36-E(1) but I have now come to realize that all of the zoning codes are written on rubber. They can stretch it any way they want. But we have to try.
Before the meeting, a few of us attended the 7 pm work session, in which they discussed who should be in charge of the sky exposure plane and what should they do about 300-36-E(1). It was like watching a Broadway play, the way they kept bouncing off each others lines. No decision was reached and that could have been because we were sitting there, staring them down. But as best as I could understand..... they are strongly considering Brian Cook's idea of him having a scale model or a scale drawing of the sky exposure plane. A prospective developer would take their plans to him and if it fit under this scale model, it would pass. If not, it would not be considered. No one said, however, that a developer had to have a scale model. Very confusing.
Again, they talked about what to do with the AHRB. It was decided that Rob Lane will continue to go to their meetings.
Then they brought up the code 300-36-E(1). It was discussed rapid fire but no decision made at that time. My guess is that they will do this quietly when we are not present. It's one of those loose codes that can go any way they want it to go.
But a plan was presented for 78 Main Street and I spoke as did Mavis and one of my neighbors. The plan, as I said, is almost ok. The only real problem is that they are asking for 4 floors which will make it as high as the white edge on the Oceana Press building. It will completely wipe out any speck of a view from the aqueduct, the brick house (Gagliardis) and from our second floor. It will also block out the light from that little house which will be next to it.
Therefore, if everyone would write a letter (email is ok but hard copy is better) to the mayor and board with copies to the planning board and the AHRB, asking that a 4th floor be denied, that might help. The zoning code which covers this is 300-36-E(1) but I have now come to realize that all of the zoning codes are written on rubber. They can stretch it any way they want. But we have to try.
Before the meeting, a few of us attended the 7 pm work session, in which they discussed who should be in charge of the sky exposure plane and what should they do about 300-36-E(1). It was like watching a Broadway play, the way they kept bouncing off each others lines. No decision was reached and that could have been because we were sitting there, staring them down. But as best as I could understand..... they are strongly considering Brian Cook's idea of him having a scale model or a scale drawing of the sky exposure plane. A prospective developer would take their plans to him and if it fit under this scale model, it would pass. If not, it would not be considered. No one said, however, that a developer had to have a scale model. Very confusing.
Again, they talked about what to do with the AHRB. It was decided that Rob Lane will continue to go to their meetings.
Then they brought up the code 300-36-E(1). It was discussed rapid fire but no decision made at that time. My guess is that they will do this quietly when we are not present. It's one of those loose codes that can go any way they want it to go.