Wales Planning Board
July 13, 2004
Meeting Minutes
In Attendance: Ralph
Sanborn (PBM), Lori Blier (PBM), Lyndon Spaulding (PBM), Tom Goudreau (A-PBM), Ed MacDonald (PBChair),
Alice DiPaolo (PBM), Randy Greenwood (Selectman),
Paul Burgess (Selectman)
- The
meeting was opened at 7:20.
- Ralph
called for nominations for Secretary for the Board. Lori Blier was nominated and voted in
unanimously with no other nominations.
- Lori
called for nominations for Chair of the Board. Ralph nominated Ed MacDonald and Ed was
voted in unanimously with no other nominations. Ed did express concerns about having a
check list or documentation that provides explanations for any waived
requirements for subdivision or other plans put before the board. It was conceded that a document of that
sort could be created to go along with the new ordinances. He also indicated that with all the work
we had before us perhaps we should meet twice a month instead of once. .
- Lori
distributed the minutes from the last meeting. A motion was made to approve the minutes
as written and the board approved them unanimously.
- Paul
directed attention to the documents he had left on the table for the
members. These were the SPO (State
Planning Office) Review Findings of the Town of Wales
Comprehensive Plan and a copy of the MDOT
engineer’s report of the inspection of the road in Glen Dube’s Starlight Drive
subdivision.
- Ed
brought up the discussion of setting the summer dates for meetings. Will we go for twice a month. Yes. The next meeting will be July 27th. There was some discussion on whether
Carol Fuller should be invited to that meeting or the following
meeting. It was determined it would
be best if she could attend the next meeting to determine what, if
anything, we need to do in response to the SPO review of the comprehensive
plan. Randy will get a hold of
Carol and see if she can come.
- There
was some discussion on what Carol should focus on for ordinances if she is
to work on any. She had indicated
she thought the Land Use ordinance should be the priority. The committee felt if might be better if
she focused on the subdivision and/or site plan review ordinances.
- Lori indicated
she needed updated information for the new INFORME website that had Wales town
information (it was provided by Paul and Randy). She has received a login and password to
move forward with the state provided website. At this time, she is unable to add
additional pages to the site, but will work on that as soon as the feature
is available – which should be within the next few weeks according to
folks from INFORME.
- There
was some discussion about the engineers report on the road for the Starlight
Drive subdivision. Lori indicated that she believed there
were 7 to 8 lots in that site that had already been filled. The engineers report indicates that the
road is still not finished. Why are
permits being issued. In the
minutes from the August 2003 meeting the following is recorded: “Glen
wanted some clarification on #23 as to what his options were for the
construction of the road. Is there
any reason he can’t just do it before anything gets done on any of the
lots? The down side of this is he
can’t improve any of the lots. He
won’t have to do #23 if the road is all done and accepted by the
inspectors etc. All agreed that
seemed to be the easiest thing to do.
He will go ahead and build the road. The selectmen indicated it should be on
the plan and have the engineers, code
enforcement, etc. approve it prior to any building permits being
issued. A discussion on what the
requirements (standards) for the road would be ensued. Glen Dube will
check to make sure that the road meets all the standards (DEP’s and Wales). “ The board determined that he has not
followed through with this as the engineers report indicates that the road
is 1) not up to specs (gravel density and road width requirements) and 2)
the DEP stormwater requirements were not
completed. It was determined that
no more building permits would be issued until a report was received that
the road was complete as specified by DEP and the Wales requirements.
- There
was some discussion about the potential need to change the 60 foot right
of way requirement for a house lot to accommodate the end lots in some
developments.
- Randy
gave the board an update on a request from Dan Boutin
to have the town pay for the culvert replacement in his trailer park – Dan
apparently is blaming Wales
roadway water for degradation or wear on his existing culvert. MDOT indicated that it was not the cause
for the culvert degradation and that most of the water came from within
the trailer park itself. Randy
indicated we would do some ditching to help mitigate the problem, but that
Boutin would have to give us some right of way
to do that.
- The
meeting was closed and the next meeting will be on the 27th of
this month. Randy will contact
Carol to invite her to that meeting.
The committee will meet twice a month until we get the
comprehensive plan and ordinance updates completed.
Respectfully submitted,
Lori Blier, WPB Secretary
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