and call on january twenty second at eight forty five in the morning from spectra energy fill the gas line for gas people that want to put in a gas line do you know they are offered me between two hundred fifty five hundred thousand dollars to use about four acres of my farmland what do you think i said no no no no traffic traffic traffic so the point of my story is it doesn't matter how much money it has been a confusing time home maybe there's a little bit of clarity coming but i have been talking with who would like to work with an aura of of late with chuck being several times i've met with rather their own to talk about traffic i think it's important to recognize and i guess everyone does recognize the traffic problem exists today benchmarks not on the street today so we're not the cause of the traffic there is a traffic study that was prepared by benchmark in the context of going through all the approvals for which we have received all the approvals to build the project in time of war with the traffic study is here with the town of westwood has been here for quite some time  our incremental add to the traffic on the street is about one percent on which is negligible from my perspective and probably too much from others but the traffic problem exists and what i've tried to do arm actually i stacking maybe seven or eight cars which is not as much as a truck at thought he would like to sit on but the reality is only seven or eight cars get through a light cycle so you could have a turning lane of a thousand feet which wouldn't necessarily increase the through and i mean part of the solution to the extent that we can we obviously have economic constraints just like the town is economic risk areas but we certainly are willing to give land and be part of a solution provide engineering for it and i'm not expecting anyone will take our design as the thing to do it needs to be reviewed and understood and looked at and criticize can change to improve on but i think it's a it's a good start i think there are a couple of different approaches as to where the target lays could be put in that would all in one driveway in fact if he is parents who are dropping off of in another driveway and then the students come in the new driveway  lot of traffic there's i think i know traffic engineer i think it has something to do with the timing of the lights sometimes only two or three cars get through but why can't you know there are f speaking during rush hour of the morning in in the afternoon because as everybody said it's a major victory for university avenue for one twenty eighth of one hundred ninety five commuter rail we have another two hundred fifty students who drive to school who are in permits and there are seventy of them include of brother at least one or more million we still have the same goal in rome as we have always said but there were fewer kids right so there'd be a few more parents but again most of so that's what we're trying to do here i mean just the three people who i guess would be the representatives for the greater plan for interest rate does that sound like a reasonable thing to do it'll be a little more difficult so i think that there's more to this solution but that's that's what will come out of studying the problem or coming up with i mean the end solution i think it's a wonderful offer b think it's even with the maybe even a piece of westwood on the northern side by o c and as a result of that intersection where there's a residential property is  but if i just understood the byelaw proposed revision that you are considering tonight was prepared today i think that's problematic under chapter forty  section five in order to amend the bylaws the town has to do a couple things but one of the things it has to do is advertise this hearing for two consecutive weeks in advance in a newspaper and that advertisement is supposed to howell informed people who may want to come and make a case for or against where they can inspect the bylaws i don't believe that happened in this case and i'm concerned that there is a rush here because of the expediency of timing of town meeting and the circumstances of when the attorney general issued her decision what i think this board may be on perilous ground if it considers an advertisement that did not reference whereby a lot could be inspected because that by law didn't even exist two weeks ago and the informed and concerned people stakeholders would not be given an adequate opportunity to come and make their case to the board tonight so i think that's a significant procedural problem you obviously have your own counsel to take your own counsel advice i really caution the board of i think it's a problem the second thing i want the board to just consider first of all there freetown by law we know something about it because we were involved in the attorney general's decision as well the overlay district was part of an overlay district that imposed special permits on various uses and what the attorney general says in her opinion is that the special permit for access was co extensive with a special permit for uses in other words you could create a permit that relates to the underlying discretionary permit and the reason for that is because for over almost a century since automobiles were in the norm massachusetts has recognized that there is a common law right when a landowner owns property that abuts a public way to access that you can regulate what i can do on my land call it commercial call it residential once you create a zoning district you can't deny some people in that district the right to access the street by creating a separate discretionary p it you can reasonably regulate that access we are it is on the street how wide it is dimensions but you can't open it lee deny it and i don't see in this hwang recognition of that if you look at the existing curb cuts by a law that is in the town's ordinances it says expressly that it can't be on reason withheld or denied i don't see any of that language and i think that you're going to run into more trouble if you go down the count of an aggressive frankly rushed through by a law that has been you'll consider because it was just prepared today in the aftermath of a decision that we got yesterday stated in actually creating the improvements only we've had several that have been problematic it is not accomplishing the goals it's that of having developers and property of others going through closes you know so you have run into the deadline problems but you know i doubt you're going to get a lot of applicants coming in and really wanting to go to the good it's a tricky question because you know a complicated project like this takes a year to get probably and if someone could get through that process during the moratorium that might do a couple things that might inform what you want to do with your file you know you guide that future application so i think we've been talking about that project for several years now and we're continuing to discuss it and you could continue to congress for the board to discuss it and warmly be could not apply for a senior presidential special permit i you submit an application that is in conformity with today's bylaws that requires you to just go through the standard special permit process and then the change and so never ends up being something completely different the board would not be able to review it under the new by law  how many how many seniors are we going to create and how much of an impact is it going to have on a community i don't think it's going to have much of an impact and i think it's very unfair there you are imposing proposing to impose a mor was not in favor of that they do want to continue the residential development but they want to find a way that allows for us to encourage the residential development that is appropriate to the existing neighborhoods and beneficial to