Meeting Minutes
Members Present:
Dennis Minsky, Elaine Anderson,
Members Absent: Paul Tasha and Dieter Groll
(unexcused).
Others Present:
PUBLIC HEARING
Co-chair
Dennis Minsky called the Public Hearing to order at
Joint Public Hearing
The
Provincetown Conservation Commission, Open Space Committee and the Recreation
Commission to discuss and vote on the Final Open Space and Recreation Plan.
This
discussion will be postponed until later on the agenda.
PUBLIC
STATEMENTS: None.
NEW
BUSINESS:
Request for
Negative Declaration: Chapter 91 Amnesty License
Request by Stella Chasteen represented by Schofield
Brothers of Cape Cod for a Negative Declaration for a Chapter 91 Amnesty
License for the property located at
Presentation:
Laura Schofield appeared to present the request. This license is for
the applicant’s existing bulkhead, deck and beach access stairs. The applicant
submitted a copy of the Chapter 91 License Plan showing the existing, as-built
structures. No change, alteration or modification is proposed or requested for
the existing structures. The applicant is applying for use and maintenance of
what is now existing.
Public
Comment: None.
Commission
Discussion: The Commission questioned Ms. Schofield.
Elaine Anderson moved to
grant a Negative Declaration for a Chapter 91 Amnesty License and to issue a
letter to the Massachusetts Waterways Program to that effect,
MINUTES:
A quorum was not present to approve these minutes.
Notice of Intent
Application by WK Red Clay, LLC, represented
by Coastal Engineering, for a Notice of Intent under the Massachusetts
Wetlands Protection Act M.G.L. c. 131, § 40 and the Provincetown Wetlands
By-Law Chapter 12. The applicant seeks to remove two existing residential
structures and construct a residential complex and associated site work,
including drainage improvements, sewage disposal system installation,
landscaping, and buffer zone enhancement within land subject to coastal storm
flowage and the buffer zone of an isolated wetland for the property located at
Elaine Anderson moved to
grant a continuance for the Notice of Intent application submitted by WK Red
Clay, LLC,
CORRESPONDENCE:
ATLANTIC
HOUSE BAR:
The Commission discussed the situation that led to
the closing of the Atlantic House Bar.
TOWN
LANDINGS:
Rex McKinsey sent an e-mail to the Commission
stating that he seeks to remediate the serious erosion issues on the town
beaches as a result of the recent storms. Many of the town landings suffered
damage.
Elaine Anderson moved to
approve an emergency work order to repair damage done to town landing with the
request that more details of the plan that Rex McKinsey intends to implement be
provided to the Commission,
TIDES
MOTEL:
The issue of fill at the property was discussed.
The current elevation as a result of the fill dumped on site is not what the
Commission approved. There is a neighborhood group that is requesting a review
of the grading and filling.
Joint Public Hearing
The
Provincetown Conservation Commission, Open Space Committee and the Recreation
Commission to discuss and vote on the Final Open Space and Recreation Plan.
There were members of the Open Space Committee present, but no one was present
from the Recreation Commission. Michelle DeMarco, chair of the Disability
Committee joined the discussion as well. The groups present would like to work
more closely with the Disability Committee to make conservation land more
user-friendly to and manageable by disabled people, including updating any
management plans to reflect this idea. Olga Upsahl Gee spoke about land that
she owns that she would like to see made into a park and would like to make it
accessible to the handicapped. It was suggested that a joint meeting with the
Open Space Committee, the Conservation Commission and the Disability Committee
at the various conservation areas in Town could be scheduled to investigate
these ideas.
Dennis Minsky moved to write a letter of approval to the
Division of Conservation Services,
CONSERVATION
BOARD STATEMENTS:
The
issues that the Commission felt needed to be addressed were as follows:
The
Commission briefly discussed the 4 accounts that the Commission controls. The
goal is to be able to do budget analyses and keep track of the money in these
accounts.
Elaine Anderson moved that, on a case by case basis,
funds will be allocated for training, travel and reference material, giving
authorization to the Conservation Agent to process the paperwork to allocate
said funds,
The
Commission also felt that all Administrative Reviews should come before them
for review after being approved or disapproved by the Conservation Agent. The
Commission would like to conduct more research to find out the process by which
they could appeal a decision of the Conservation Agent and how many days they
would be allowed in order to appeal a review.
The
Commission briefly discussed changes in the dynamic of Conservation Commission
hearings.
Mark
Robinson, of the Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts, seeks approval for
his management plan for Nicky’s Park.
Dennis Minsky moved to go into Executive Session at
ADJOURNMENT:
These minutes were approved by a vote of the Conservation Commission at their meeting on ___________________, 2007.
Respectfully submitted,
Ellen C. Battaglini
Approved by ________________________________ on _____________, 2007
Dennis Minsky and Dieter Groll, Co-Chairs