Danville Planning Board Meeting 5/28/09
Members Present: Barry Hantman-chairman, Chip Current, Tara Burkhart, Dave Knight, Joe Luna-Selectman’s rep.
Others Present: Charlie Zilch-SEC Assoc., Chris Stafford, Dylan Smith-RPC,
The meeting began at 7:30 and was televised.
Dave was appointed a voting member for tonight’s meeting due to Bill Hadley’s absence.
I.Minutes:
The minutes of the May 14, 2009 meeting were reviewed. Chip moved and Joe seconded a motion to accept the minutes of May 14, 2009 as written. The motion passed.
II.Correspondence:
Arthur Deidrich has offered a Safeco plat cabinet to the Planning Board. It was agreed that Chip would call in the morning to accept one cabinet and make arrangements to pick it up.
A letter from one abutter who is in support of the Stafford Lot Line adjustment application
From Paradigm: they are hosting a free pipeline safety emergency response program
From American Planning Association: a subscription offer for “The Commissioner”
From RPC: grant approval notification and a signed copy of the grant
From RPC: a letter about matching grants for the coming year—Barry will bring this to the town hall later
Information about digging safely and pipeline markers
A letter from a prospective buyer of property on main street wishing to use the property as a used car dealership—they were invited to have a non-binding preliminary hearing with the Board
III.Public hearing for a Lot Line Adjustment of Map 2, Lot 72 & Lot 72-1, property owned by Chris and Nancy Stafford, 478 Main St., Danville
Charlie Zilch introduced himself to the Board. He explained that Lot 72 is in current use and has no improvements on it except a tennis court. Lot 72-1 has the dwelling and barn. The Staffords would like to adjust the lot lines to incorporate the tennis court onto Lot 72-1 while incorporating easements to allow for foot traffic around the court and use of a gravel drive exiting onto 111A from behind the barn. He said this would leave Lot 72 with just over 10 acres, still allowing for the current use designation. Mr. Zilch presented a sample deed to the Board.
The Board reviewed the application and found that the hearing was properly noticed to the abutters. Mr. Stafford presented a copy of a letter dated December 23, 1992 from the Stafford Family Trust naming himself as Trustee. Mr. Stafford explained that the family trust owns the larger lot, Lot 72.
Joe moved and Chip seconded a motion to accept the application for the lot line adjustment of Map 2, Lot 72 & Lot 72-1. The motion passed unanimously.
A question regarding on item had been forwarded to Mr. Zilch. In response to this inquiry, he remarked that a note submitted with the first plan was eliminated from the second plan. He said that what was eliminated is seen typically on site plans but not generally carried over to a lot line adjustment plan. The Board was satisfied with this explanation.
Mr. Zilch also submitted easement language for the Boards’ review. It was agreed that this did not need to be reviewed by town counsel. There was a discussion about the gravel drive depicted behind the barn and exiting to the main road. Barry suggested that this could become a driveway and asked if they should apply for a driveway permit. It was agreed that approving this plan is not establishing a driveway at this time at that site.
It was suggested that the distance between the tennis courts and the new lot line should be shown on the map indicating that proper setbacks have been met. Mr. Zilch said he spoke with Russ Pouliot, Danville Building Inspector, who is of the opinion that the tennis court is not a structure. The plan, as submitted this night, shows approximately 5-6’ around the court. The Board agreed that the tennis court is a structure and would need to meet setback requirements.
Joe asked about adjusting the line around the southern portion of the property if the easement around the court needed to be increased to 15’. This would allow the larger lot to maintain at least 10 acres to qualify for current use.
The Board agreed that this plan does not need to be reviewed by the town engineer.
After some discussion Mr. Zilch asked for conditional approval. Rather than granting this request, it was agreed that the hearing would be continued at 7:45 on June 11th. Mr. Zilch was advised to rearrange the lot lines to accommodate 15’ around the courts and adjust other lot lines as he deems necessary. He was told to bring one mylar, seven copies of the plan, and three checks: $25 to the Town of Danville, and two checks for the RCRD. He will call the Registry to obtain the correct amounts for those two checks.
IV.Discussion of Master Plan with Dylan Smith-RPC:
Housing Chapter
The draft was reviewed by the Board. Barry and Chip had comments and suggestions that were discussed with the Board. Clarifications were made about several points and redundancy was deleted from this chapter.
Dylan will accept the tracked changes made so far and incorporate the new edits into another draft. He said he is almost finished updating the tables and figures. These will be sent to Barry via email and then distributed to the other Board members.
Barry mentioned that he hopes to update the Open Space and Future Land Use chapters using the new grant funds. He explained that this is taking the build-out analysis and crafting it into the Master Plan. A final copy of the Capital Improvement Plan has not yet been received from the school.
Letters to several town boards will be sent in order to update our town Capital Improvement Plan for 2009. Joe was asked to supply an updated form to be sent with the letters.
At 8:37pm Dave moved and Chip seconded a motion to adjourn. The motion passed unanimously.
Respectfully,
Janet S. Denison, clerk
Our next regular meeting is on Thursday, June 11, at 7:30 p.m.
Agenda:
7:30 Meeting called to order
7:45 Public hearing for a Lot Line Adjustment of Map 2, Lot 72 & Lot 72-1, property owned by Chris and Nancy Stafford, 478 Main St., Danville
8:15 Master Plan review
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