Public Meeting
Meeting Room A
Town Hall, 260 Commercial
Street
Time: 4:30 pm
Members Present: Mel
Cote, Marty Huey, and Gerard Irmer
Members
Absent: Philip Scholl (excused absence)
Advisory
Staff: Rex
McKinsey and Doug Taylor
The
meeting was called to order at 4:30 p.m.
AGENDA
Review/amend/approve minutes
of 10-4-06
Motion: Accept the minutes as revised.
Motion: Jerry Irmer Seconded: Mel
Cote Vote: unanimous
Public Statements
There
were none.
Unfinished Business:
There
was none.
Old Business:
· Review 2005 Amendments to
the Harbor Plan status
Town
counsel will be meeting with us on these amendments.
· Washington Ave. Town
Landing Status
Nothing
has changed.
· Good Templar Place Town
Landing status
An
e-mail was received from the DPW. Good
Templar Place is not one of the landings that the BoS thought was most
critical. The problem will not be
attacked immediately. A meeting with
the abutters to the landing will be held on November 27th.
Another
temporary solution happened, the DPW took more sand from Ryder Street on Monday
and put it on Good Templar Place to shore up the former quick-fix which washed
out on the first high-course tide.
· Beach cleaning status
It
was decided that it's a little late to deal with it. Jerry may call Dennis, MA and ask them what they do with seaweed
that they rake?
ConCom
has passed a new set of regulations.
The regulations state that you can’t remove seaweed from the beach.
· Status of obtaining copies
of maps of the harbor
Nothing
new for this subject.
New Business:
· Mass. Estuaries Project
Rex
is not prepared to speak on it. Jerry
will put it on the agenda for next meeting.
· Chapt. 91 license database
status, Marty Huey
Marty
Huey, the newest member of the Committee, started working as a volunteer in
February on the Chapter 91 database. He
was shown to several boxes of papers in the nether regions of Town Hall and
basically the assignment was to build a database of Chapter 91 licenses. Marty then went to a hearing led by Lou
Gitto. MH thought Chapter 91 only
applied to west of Howland Street and at the hearing they were discussing a
property located in the 600 block of Commercial Street. Thus he is able to understand the
frustration of the Harbor Committee. He
personally applied for amnesty for his waterfront property and gave a broad
history of his back and forth messages to attain his amnesty.
He
now realizes that Chapter 91 is a 3-headed monster and no one has a good handle
on it. He is about to build a database
that will be a useful tool for this committee.
The only working definition is that every property south of a line down
Commercial St. is on the waterfront and his data is coming from the Assessor's
Office. Licenses were granted back to
1860. Even some on Ryder St.
extension. Gosnold St. also has
properties listed as Commercial St.
He
will indicate those east and west of Howland St. Jerry asked if he had license numbers? His work now is to create a format and record that format. What was done…. When applied for and by
whom. Some covenants carry through to
successive owners and some do not.
The
whole chart will have all the information per Huey and will be completed by the
end of the year.
· W96-5487-N, 161 Comm’l
St., Boatslip, Draft Special Conditions
Where
do we go from here? HB said they can’t
have it both ways. HB says you pick one
line and go with it. HB says you have
to pick one line for everyone and not go arbitrarily property by property.
Jerry
wondered if he should reply to the October 12, 2006 letter sent to him by Lou
Gitto? We have a fundamental
jurisdictional decision that needs to have an opinion.
· W96-8218-N, 75 Comm’l St.,
Barnes, Draft Special Conditions
Any
comments? Will be sending a letter out
for this.
· W96-5023-N, 623 Commercial
St., adjacent ROW, public access?
Next
to Norman Mailers house. This property
does not have public access but the right-of-way was just given to neighbors
across the street. Rex is concerned –
because in the past every side street going toward the water had a right-of-way
right to the water. When deeds turn
over, many rights-of-way have disappeared.
HB
said that if you did a deed research you could probably uncover
rights-of-way.
Rex
said that Americorp did research in the past and found no right-of-way to
"uplanders." Lawyers have to
be careful when they register deeds.
· Any other business that
shall properly come before the Committee
Rex
is planning more accessible floats to accommodate tourists and townfolks among
others. Rex won’t know what the final
plan is until January or February.
Jerry
wants to ask KAB if legal counsel could spare an hour to meet with the Harbor
Committee.
Heather Bruce's appointment
to Harbor Committee
It
was decided to table this until the next meeting. The e-mail from MaryJo that was shared with the group advised
against Heather's appointment but also clearly stated that it was the Committee's
call.
Adjournment happened at 5:18
p.m.
Next HC meeting: November 15 in Town Hall at 4:30
pm.
Respectfully
submitted,
Approved by ____________________________on ______________, 2006.