for the upcoming tell meanings that are scheduled for monday the sixty eighth in the fall on monday the thirteenth but we do have a couple of other matters i want to contract for two thousand seven hundred water main the placement and we also have a community announcement what a division manager this award was given a kayleen this is actually her second year the cheese won this award last year she won the award for second place this year first place annual something she wrote a very impressive essay regarding the cleanup of the boston harbor house cleaned up and you know what the effects of had on everybody's life right now us then i think it's a straight forward contract mr chair it's in your contract that we put out to bid for recommending that the board approve the contract to saddam trucking company who's i believe received prior contracts in prior years of my memory  approved by the board terms of appropriation and the streets are listed in your packet which would be the water main replacement of common street slayed street to place and road twenty seven hundred fifty linear feet cross street bright str replaced all forty percent of our system of roughly forty miles which is about sixty five percent of population right there was a development over thirty year plan yes michael it'll never stop fortunately these are typically the pipes are over one hundred years old you thank you thank you good luck six oversized welling's and single residency like most men zoning amendments is a somewhat complicated piece of legislation if you will as we approach the meeting and this particular article has five provisions the first provision deals with grade the second permit provision deals with the special permit process the third provision deals with height the fourth provision deals with h v a c systems and the fifth provision deals with from said ben s as we approach this meeting there was concern that the language of one of these five provisions namely provision to dealing with the special permit process was not transparent perhaps we should have engaged the services of the young belmont student who won the essay contest this not just to work with us but in any case there was concern  t these special permit provision was not there for the moderator it was rescheduled by vote of town meeting to june sixth and i want to emphasize that provisions one three four and five which you have already voted on are unchanged the only changes are clarifications to provision to which go out with the special permit process and they our clarifications that make the press unclear let me explain what that means we now have we have always had in this provision after and there's the benefit of the eight public hearings and many other meetings we had and this where homeowners were concerned about does this mean i have to get a special permit for everything  the language the new language we think makes it clear that there's a there's essentially three possibilities you're making you're doing a small alteration you're putting on a small dorm or you need to get a building permit from that from community to from the building department but that's the end of it nothing no more is required and in a moment i'll ask jeffrey to give you the conforming as to size and frank you still don't have to go and get a special you just go and get a building permit there is a second category in which you always had to go to the zoning board you still have to go to the zoning board of gross floor area by more than thirty percent or if you have done a voluntary demolition and intend to rebuild on something other than the original footprint a structure of equal volume you have to go to the planning board for a special permit so  s yes so if you if you could if you had a three thousand square foot house structure you took it down and you want to rebuild another three thousand square foot house on the same footprint you don't need a special permit for that if you want to replace it with a forty five hundred square foot house you need to come to the planning board and get a special permit percent or more thirty percent there is a modest look back position provision so we look at the permits that you have gotten over the last five years too and cumulative we don't want people coming in for a ten percent increase this year and a twenty percent increase next year and a twenty five percent increase and at the end of five years the house has tripled in size and both were one one night and done so it's not as if the special permit process is necessarily a long and arduous process it is only a long an process if the development is inconsistent with the character of the neighborhood or reduces the value of the neighbors properties how much do you want and we think that rule here is a good idea so so the board was very concerned that by establishing this bright line that all the sudden there'd be you know that there would be a significant line of people coming in to try to get special permits so to sort of alleviate that concern i reviewed and i  alleviate concern to see if the concern was valid people said gee we don't want you know we don't like four hundred people to have to get special permits and the reason we held so many public hearings was to flesh out the concerns and so we said yeah that would be a problem and we asked jeffrey to research it we weren't committed to the thirty percent in advance of the research ok david yes a demand yes i felt  between may first twenty fifteen and november first twenty fifteen the busiest time during in the building department the busiest time of the season four hundred eighty three building permits were issued for the single residency district of board so well that four hundred eighty three only six would fall under this thirty percent provision and only those six would require special six more with our special permit from the planet with a period of time again knew they worked some of them for well there was actually eight but two of them already when the special per process that's why i say six more they were suppose second floors or they were four which is very common you know where you put the second floor above the one story like maybe four season porch kind of thing and dormers so we're talking you know not just that one little space but talking also blowing up the attic and then there were four you know with the increase in yeah i know there was there there was i mean again one of the things you do is you look at what is the underlying his your view should look like to have the three times larger than what was there right we we would be moving from a thirteen hundred square foot house to a thirty tripled in size yeah not like it's well it's thirty one percent i don't know whether it's larger it's it's more it's three times and again given the size of the lot size it is larger in size and no sunlight will ever again again reinforce that but mall you know the vast majority of people who've applied for the very building permits will be able to go on and live their lives and improve their evidence you know holds i mean it's very small percentage but the ones that we want to get to with this article and address that the residents are concerned about will be the individual that the developers or whomever that will have to go for a special permit the ones that are doubl provision to so perhaps and i just your permission to now contains said conditions so if i'm sure you all have it before you but if i might just read the is generally in harmony with the neighborhood and b will neither generate excessive traffic parking noise or density impacts on the butter's nor create other get for mental effects on the neighborhood see is appropriate in scale and mass with particular consideration of bonding properties will not increase the existing non conforming lot coverage if it exists and will not be substantially more detrimental than the existing non conforming neighborhood and the particular factors that we'll consider will include scaling design and i want to underscore that because we have an amendment that specifically seeks to alter that the siding of the structure