as a reminder please turn off your cell phones we have several items on the agenda which is available in the back of the room meeting with follow the order on the agenda the meeting will be civil all will be treated respectfully the form of the meeting will be where the item is called the a so article two to see if salvo to approve certain amendments to the us it's only by law related to section two point of definitions and section four point one including amendments related solar energy facilities or taking the action in relation to article three to see if a town vote to delete section five point five point seven creation of ways of the zoning law in its entirety or to take any action in relation there to article forty of the town will vote to approve certain amendments parcel twenty one as lot forty three for a single residence see district two local business a district or take any action in relation there to article eight to see if the town who voted to approve housekeeping of image to various sections of the to discuss this evening is there anyone in the audience that is here for something other than those paid for the wegmans sign requests so who is here to discuss something or listen thirteen which is extending two hundred percent of this case for housing is so is there anything in their earlier state earlier cause that prevents going to strike that means if someone wants to install solar panels they can go to the building department and submit a building permit application along with electrical permit and they have to cement structural engineer report why the fifteen kilowatts last year when you were looking at this that was based on the state's model in two thousand and fourteen the state put together a policy  in the year for our annual meeting you have increased it from the states recommended ten to fifteen at to make sure that there's no adverse impacts on the neighborhood the character impact or buying properties adequacy of utilities traffic parking and safety those are the criteria for approval you know there is a way to go back and see what the size of them are and they're generally on groups we've found one one ground mounted which was for a few years ago back in two thousand and nine  would have had to go to the zoning board of appeals to have it reviewed and then we had one and i guess that was a little over the fifteen so they on washington street so they really had to reduce that to be under the fifteen kilowatts and that was one of the inspiration for us to come back and take a look at this and give someone an option to pursue this by special permit because as a i guess an as a right now that happened is just prohibited and one response that is part of what the industry is trying to do is technology gets better they will be able to all the smaller panels so too and that could be happy quickly much quicker than we cannot take this but the industry seems to use kilowatts as the measure and so if we use that  commuting why do we were talking about this for footage of kid gets a big part of it the industry uses kilowatts and that will forever be changing or likely be changing as the industry is able to fit more solar  ultimately with this article we don't all we're saying is it fifteen given the size of the arrays as they are now we feel and also given that the average is eight to twelve is put on a residential we're just putting the threshold for zoning eyeballs to look at fifteen and not capping it to fifteen recently saying at that point given the size of roofs and the size it's it's because generally now when you build something that required that there's going to be more than fifteen the prevailing thought is it's going to be big it's going to be on someone's roof and those people in our town that for us to try to come up with a mathematical calculation everyone's route is a different size it's an individual case by case basis with which is why we think going to the c b i that when you reach fifteen you said we have a list in front of us of in fifty applications of the last two years i think three have been above fifteen so it's really nice that is that it's going to be north of fifteen in the future and if it happens it's a few percent we should go to the war that used to hearing these situations so to try to come up with a mathematical square footage i think would almost be redundant i think fifteen is one of those numbers at this point in time it works and if it gets to be bigger then we can simply  lot for a very long time it references something that was in our subdivision rules and regulations a number of years ago but it's now removed well creating new roads have to be at zoning bylaw only referencing the subdivision rules and rights which is why examined first place however this is no longer exists you have rules and regulations for subdivision anymore so it really only forci pick which one they might better and allow you to develop that one so essentially they would deny your subdivision plan if they like your major residential development plan better the developer was to develop and took the board to court the board had approved a major development that so eventually the court decision came back and told us to delete our major residential development section and eventually the creation of ways statement or amend our subdivision regulations to contain the same zoning amendment list for this year the board is reviewing it so you can regulations and if the board revises those regulations before a town meeting and includes that language in it that it doesn't need to delete this section but if you have a consultant working on that with you so if the timing arcs out and you get that adopted before november night then i recommend that you just withdraw this article if you do not get the separation regulations updated to loot the same whoever may be able to fit entirely in the s r a's own i don't have the exact locations but it's sort of in the back part of the property if the building were to be located across are proposing and still negotiating with the girl scouts in the school because it is the school property exactly we were and are putting together a package of creating this new parcel and then having a design of the hammond school district does it have a school parcel i've been to the school committee and assessed to them and they're actually waiting to make their decision until the planning board makes its decision on the overall project in the field  extension and those stations are there waiting to hear from you after your meeting next week before they decide their initial reaction is that that is could be determined to be circus land they don't think it it's necessary for any sluices right now as you can see it's  parking lot it's not part of the flavor now and it's just not used beds are right now so if if the rest of the project goes forward and if the town in fact does have success negotiation the girl scouts and does decide to go forward with the stick homes back there i don't know back there but to now like where this girl scout parcel will be is right down the road no more privacy and then potentially taking down a lot of  the green space and whether the area to build the new hammond building at i mean i feel like that's going to destroy their property i would not want to move into one of those houses and i don't think they'll be able to sell their houses understand they're not interested in taking down a lot of the trees to do this and i don't think looking from the overhead it would be to dip down the significant amount of troopers of those they're asking us to basically traffic to the handle of school that will impact the rest of the hand school they have the school has busy traffic all they locked together in morning and afternoon drop off but also for extended day for the whole town until six o'clock at night it's also voting polls so you've got the elderly voters driving in out of there with little kids going to school and to add a girl scout site there i think that this board or some town board needs to think really carefully about what times of the day what days of the week what would months of the year the girl scouts will be using what the driveways would look like with the parking would look like whether it will intersect with the existing parking and the handful of this is even assuming we don't have a major school which is a whole nother issue but it's something that it's dangerous to have little kids running around in what they consider to be a campsite that they can you probably really at the same time is a very close proximity you've got dropped off and pick up teachers elderly voters and sat around and i just think some board needs to really think about the traffic and parking aspects of this pick up from extended day so this would improve that could in turn around and make the safer use for an idea of how much traffic the girl scout house has right now it's located behind town hall it has its shares of parking the town no parking spaces a town hall are the only parking spaces available to it now the proposal right now for the girl scout house that we don't have a picture here because it's not very fully for you as a development project right now it's just about the zoning but there elementary school should be able to get to the girl scout house on the days that they have activities and their buses so this is been discussed with the doctor engineer and it's been discussed with represents for the eastern massachusetts girl scouts and west adult girl scouts but it needs to be discussed much further so it's an initial proposal and if it ever gets to the point of needing to be approved it would have to come for the sport or  you at some point later down the road you're seeing a development proposal and you refuse that proposal and either give it sounds out comes down like whether it is because i i think some of continue their discussions with the scouse they're getting their ducks in a row basically to make sure that this can be a viable site for them to build and then once status done if that does ok thank you very much you i think you for your brush your yeah so this seems to be legitimate rezoning requests for the simple reason is looking at the big picture here we have one law which contains a school and we have to use only districts this is something we don't normally do we don't like to put the borderline between zoning to six through the middle of a piece of property that's what's been done here this is the start of thing so probably some point was a specific project at this coming in that we thought was a good thing and then that project for whatever reason founder even if it went and then was turned out later you're still you have a highly business district which is a much more intense district so when the board looks at redundancy they look at all the table it would not be limited to that project so if you do want to consider that one in a lot of age restricted housing in the f m you and three districts for the entire district and it's enough project i would go and if you were to choose this example uses a school by the ways and tips so in as are a district which is the darker greenish blue one might have to be twelve thousand square feet or about in the as our egos start which is the light rain lots have to be eighteen thousand square feet densely close to the main roads and less densely in the later developed areas in the center of the town so the large class only s r t is principally in the portions of the town that have large lots and the the smaller zoning s are as in the parts of the town that have the more densely developed lots in the case of the hand and school district for whatever reason the zoning was set back so many feet from the street and that became as our head there's only whether that whole lot of this yesterday or even if the whole thing  reichl seven is another's zoning map amendment this is related to the opaque baker house which is shown here on the map on the on if the project as a project before it if there were as exterior to ration the change in use and expansion of parking that comes to the planning board for the project the say plan review process