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January 4, 2012 Meeting Minutes

Meeting: 
January 4th, 2012 PLanning Board Work Session
Status: 
Draft

 TOWN OF WILTON

PLANNING BOARD MEETING
DRAFT MINUTES
 
DATE:           January 4, 2012
TIME:            7:30 P.M.
PLACE:         Wilton Town Hall Courtroom
PRESENT:    Wilton Planning Board Members: Chairman Walter Zuber, Vice Chairman Alec MacMartin, Jeff Kandt, John Shepardson, Alternate Sue Egan, Board of Selectmen Representative Steve McDonough, NRPC Representative Camille Pattison, and Recording Secretary Heather Loewy Nichols.
 
The agenda was amended as follows:
1.)                Pre-Application: Temple Community Farm
2.)                Other Business
3.)                Adjournment
 
Chairman Zuber opened the meeting at 7:30 p.m. and appointed Sue Egan to the Board as a voting member in place of Matt Fish.
 
1.       Pre-Application: Temple Community Farm
 
Walter Zuber and Steven McDonough left the board as voting members.
 
Donald Sienkiewicz and Anthony Graham appeared before the Board and explained that Mr. Graham and his wife own Lot H-041, a portion of which they would like to give to a land trust and they are wondering if any field work will need to be done.
 
The Board and Mr. Sienkiewicz discussed the lot in question and reviewed some options the applicant could take instead of having a full survey completed.
 
Walter Zuber and Steve McDonough returned to the Board as voting members.
 
2.       Other Business
-          Expedited Site Plan
The Board reviewed the current status of the expedited site plan proposals for Ms. Pattison and asked that she review the documents the Board has been working with and draft a proposal.
 
-          Storm Water
Mr. Zuber explained that the Town Engineer has approved the December 14th revision of the proposed Storm Water Regulations. The Board asked that the clerk create or track down a red line version of the original document which was submitted to the Town Engineer compared with the final version he approved.
 
In response to a question from Mr. Kandt, Ms. Pattison stated that she will talk to the Town Engineer regarding how much more cost these regulations will create for the applicant.
 
In response to a question from the Board, Mr. MacMartin stated that the applicant already
has to deal with similar regulations at the state level.
 
-          Sign Applications
Mr. McDonough stated that he spoke to the Board of Selectmen and they are unconcerned about being removed from the sign application process. Mr. MacMartin stated that he did not speak to Town Counsel yet but he will now that he knows the Board of Selectmen’s stance.
 
-          Excavation, Tax Issues
The Board explained to Ms. Pattison the opinion they had received from Mary Pinkham-Langer regarding the current excavation renewal process. They directed her to the minutes from June 1, 2011 and asked her to bring a proposed revision to the Board.
 
-          NRPC Budget
The Board and Mr. McDonough discussed the proposed NRPC contract and after considering the Master Plan work the Board needs to do this year and the increase in hourly rate by NRPC they decided to leave the contract amount at $18,145; the same as it was last year.
 
3.       Adjournment
A MOTION was made by Mr. Kandt and SECONDED by Mr. MacMartin to adjourn the meeting.
Voting: 5 ayes; motion carried unanimously.
 
Chairman Zuber declared the meeting adjourned at 9:15 p.m.
 
Respectfully Submitted,
Heather Loewy Nichols
Recording Secretary
 
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