amendments we now have seven eight remaining amendments seven of the seven remaining amendments all have been submitted with the end of the seven amendments three four have been submitted were submitted on the last day of life so there was a make we were very much regret that because there was a and that was with regard to this they wouldn't be able to do it that way not by writing i'm not saying that it shouldn't have been done i'm just saying right you know and it didn't you know we didn't go through a process of you know who knows nobody knows how it would end would have ended up i think th drew member when marion scalia ask you the question about a in the you know in the precinct meeting and i think your response was that whenever you do something like this you're you're in this you're in effect affecting property rights and so there isn't an automatic extension to the residential zone a and b and so i think my question is are we then in a position in residential zone a and b where something like this could happen that we we don't want to happen then is it our expectation that the citizens of a and b need to come forward to to achieve this or  you want to go through did you vote on i see that mr because five amendments one and three were filed but withdrawn because they were incorporated into and that's why two of them have been something withdrawn because the planning board did indeed heed what with the suggestion incorporated what he said into the substitute motion so yes this question is there in the original article six and then one that's been amended by the plenty border there are there are provisions to there was an original article six which as i outlined at the beginning had five provisions yes we have a man various now and amended article six which differs from the original only in the second provision having been rewritten for clarity provisions one three four and five are identical to what was originally submitted motions we have two amendments to citizen amendments that deal with where you can put your h b ac and where you can put a propane pin one of them the more rankine both right now we are saying that you must push your h b ac and propane tank if that's how you're going to be heating your house back at least ten feet from the front from the face of the house if you will from the front of the house you can put it in the front you can't put it in the side setbacks and you need to screen it completely from the street and the abettors both of these amendments would allow you to move your h v a c equipment and or your propane paying closer to the front of the house only five feet that gives the neighbors less protection in the in the guy amendment also calls for that see scream form minimum visual everyone in the single residency district who is getting doing construction regardless of whether they need a special permit ok gotta understand those are they really have th understand the reasoning for some of these amendments that i just make any sense to me to have go from ten to five why and then to have less screening rather than more it just seems like really minor points proposed rewrite of section two paragraph two by the planning board is a good thing it's much clearer than the previously submitted version so so i think i think the drafting is much better ok i think incorporating the criteria for approval of special permits right into the article provides much greater clarity so that's good number two i like to point out that i think this article in general will not change the current practice for the average homeowner who wants to add a dormer or add a porch or a deck to their home that it's it's right rightfully aimed at the developer who wants to come in and demolish build a house that's two three times the size and then flip it which is what irks i think the residents of the town there's a feeling that we're being taken advantage of in that context so so that's a good point addressed by by this amendment lastly even as a current even as a former chair of the planning board i will say this is not simple  this is not a simple exercise it is complex there are multiple amendments that add to the complexity of the article so to hear it more than one time a member of the board of selectmen is useful to us it doesn't hurt to hear explanations this morning and then further explanations on on monday night the chair of the planning board and geoffrey are meeting with the warrant committee to provide explanations to the amendments on monday night before town meeting at six pm and i would suggest that the board of selectmen we are meeting in any event at five thirty i suggest that we meet you know concurrently with the with the warrant committee at six pm and be allowed to deliberate with the warrant committee at that time and maybe vote on the the original opposable that the planning board has will have before a town meeting is to say you can't have beach b c system in the front yard the side sat back or the rear set back so where is it placed so there was placed in there in the area that's issue here and this is the one too that has generated the most i would success generate the most conversation at many of the planning board meetings and such the setback right  briere begins what is the building envelope on a lot of that doesn't mean that the structure you're going to build were actually built to the limits of those setbacks because there are additional dimensional first the setbacks and then you add the layer of law coverage that buildable area becomes much smaller where you can put actually put the structure so it's that area that's left is if you will after you've added family husband recently did to their property it's an odd shaped lot and she is concerned that yes this amendment while the intent isn't right or if she just was  some one side yard and all the sudden all this equipment appears so it is certainly very much a visual impact but secondly it is also trying to adjust to some of the noise concerns you know it's seen as a you know i'm sure there were people were very pleased with  a weekend it was a nice lovely sunny day but you know windows are shut windows are open in you know and so you can hear the air conditioning and the noise bouncing up back and forth we so this is really about trying to help provide some was it seems to me it's it's just a difference of opinion yes yes so you know we're going to burn a lot of meeting time on this but you know it's but but you know they have a right they have a right to that i think we need to spend time and but i'm saying you know let's we can well we've already gotten the revised one of the way but i'm saying that i don't think we can decide on two or six based on what we know  it and then the the other point is that i like the idea of going to the war and committee meeting but i don't like the idea of having a joint session i'm kind of opposed in principle to that well i don't know at this point we can't post a joint session so we have to attend as just  know that floyd has was in your schedules and i don't think i probably i think it's true when i came in to do that you know it's not on camera and i thought they want to submit their report right so you can we can accept the report and then have a presentation on camera later you i know we are we have a busy calendar day there's a there's another point about the permanent war audit committee and that is that we we did meet on the light company's financial statement but we haven't talked to the like company about we haven't done you know we bylaw and what four and five does is changes the language when this amendment therefore making it the language inconsistent with the rest of the zoning by law and the board is very concerned about making language law the board is concerned that if you change if you make the language inconsistent that there may be an opportunity for one someone to challenge what then is the intent of the language while you're changing the language here did indeed attend a couple those meetings we actually had a separate record recognizing that he was not going to be able to be present at a town meeting and you're welcome back to the chair to have an hour conference process are a series of factors that the board is to consider when reviewing an application one of those factors includes design design is critical when trying to reduce the sense of mass the sense of scale something that is not designed well may not be that big but it will look big because it's not designed well we're asking firstly something that's quite large if it's designed well looked at he just felt that if he had to go through the special permit process that it would have had a significant impact on his ability as you know if you really suggest that if you have to go through a special permit process that you won't get a with consultation with the town moderator of both agree that this is outside the scope of the article and if actually present in the town meeting will be immediately cut off from from the conversation because it will be deemed to be outside the scope of the article doesn't mean it sounds good so what this amendment proposes to do is to change all of the dimensional regulations within the single residency zoning district so that's lot size frontage front side back side side back we are set back law coverage and open space it's so what he's proposing to do is to make all of those dimension requirements the same as the general residence it just take one current lot size is nine pounds and square feet amendment nine proposes to reduce that to five thousand square feet and therefore a great many along with many other dimensions setbacks and so so a great deal of building becomes by right it all becomes waverley it all becomes w so it's a huge right and right so this is this is this the context of this amendment well in order to this would have to be an article in the warrant for it complete only by horn or the article that article six minutes before town meeting would if if he if he continues to make the motion at town meaning he has the option not to which therefore then in essence withdraws the amendment if he does if he does  personally in the rancor does it does is it your understanding that paul roberts understands the reason why this would be considered to be out of scope i i was told right so therefore it will be deliberated all right ok thank you all right so i think thank you for your time we'll see you in right right at six o'clock or six o'clock hour that you will be going through these amendments david since we have members of what we could have if we had one member we had members there probably have left by now agreement and a price for this project is for their services is one hundred seventy five thousand four hundred twenty five dollars which is well within our two hundred thousand description that was carried in the within the within the feasibility study is that a possibility because as we proceed down there this very complex path of feasibility in the twenty minute complex and i think it's comprehensive it's a comprehensive proposal they're going to look at a number of things so they're going to address all of the all the points within the or p but there may be additional items that we might consider need to be reviewed could we draw down on the additional twenty five additional meetings that they would be willing to do within the scope of this price we also asked them if there was a determination for more meetings beyond that the couple that they were willing to incorporate in their price that they gave us a price for that in the event that we need to execute i would we do that we have to execute a new contract remember to now we just amend the contract and the contract you would know what your range was if you needed certain expertise versus well i think as we proceed down this path of looking at right now i think there may be some engineer i can just invasion because of how complex this is that something might come up right then and we might say well this is outside of the scope of the or peevish something that's an important issue to consider and we want to pare to do that and then get some kind of  we could amend the company not the not looking to spend a full two hundred i'm suggesting is that we have some ability just because there's a need to spend up to the two hundred we ever really do that for example at the last meeting williams read a letter from a constituent it's about concern about sound in particular and i'm not sure that there is an acoustical engineer on the staff that's not something that we asked for a required of the in the r p process but that's that could be an expertise that we would tap either directly ourselves and work through them present that they would integrated into their process to bring someone in to look at the implications of different designs for that the level of sounded advisability of the desirability of spending the state money first one hundred thousand dollars of state money first so in the event that there is any money left over at the end of the feasibility project that was done in town appropriated money   a standard consideration of something like this in their answer was yes that's it that doesn't mean that i'm opposed to you know subsequent but i think i think it's a good discipline that you know if to me i look at a spend more than seventy five but if you provide some flexibility if there's a need so the goal of our study is to have a work product that will that would enable us upon the be pennywise and pound foolish by not spending enough including incremental beyond hundred seventy five if necessary to go to to get to that level of specify  so if i slip it in my pocket just your you know presenting wednesday night the special town meeting june eighth and what i have for you if you have questions that i don't need to make a presentation to today but a little information that may give you help for the three of you sammy thank you ok this is it's it's basically the first the first handout i quoted about my concerns around zoning for cell antennas and cell towers that's all that is our article is pretty straightforward and simple let me start by saying we are not changing the zoning for interior or exteriors sellon tennis whatever is in the language stage all we're asking is to make the process similar for exteriors the same for similar and  which is special permit right now interior cell antennas which i didn't realize it's it's a by right installation they do have a design and site plan and i know the vice chair knows more about design and site plan than i do but it's somewhat limited from all the design and site plans i've attended with the planning board and the special permit just gives a little more opportunity for transparency and input by residents that's basically it there are a few benefits that with this special permit we can have more information and input about maintenance trucks that might be coming in a neighborhood how often help set the hours there is also an opportunity for discussion in the special permit which isn't in the by right whether there's a municipal site that might be sued it and the town with then get the get the money right now we get forty three thousand nine hundred thousand for the to sell antennas out of the nine in belmont so we are getting revenue and this would just give you those one is right out the window at the police station and that's in a residential whatever you know local community is heavily heavily regulated by the f c c there's a federal regulation actually that this comes from health issues health concerns can judge it clearly in favor of area there's also another element that we looked at arlington and lexington and neighboring towns have changed their bylaws to require special permit for interior next area yes the one little caviar in lexington of the with special permit for both if it's in a commercial zone it's right but they didn't make that change and i think we have attorneys in the room but i think it also the argument could be made that it gives you it's good risk management to elevate the level of process it also shows the town does due diligence even though we can't raise or deny for health it's worth showing that we do take sightings not as by right just have a process for in a special permit depending on the substance of the discussion it could be business as usual is that is that the case you see what i mean with respect to business as usual this well in other words amy i agree with you that in terms of the crease process here and i make a stand on this simply because i think i have a conflict but so i do i do appreciate that and do agree that process is important and puts important as well my sense though is that we yes the neighbors do have a right within you know the twenty year they do have a right to appeal that decision i mean it would be up to each who was ever appealing the decision to determine for them to decide what the basis of or the planning board is that if a if it is a decision is appealed to a superior court the concern always that is that any of those conditions that you've negotiated between the site nature and uses of adjacent properties which for us for me i would i was very interested in generators and noise and condensers there may not be any but is not set up to say no to it set up the brightest so if there is i don't know it's been confusing with design and site plan they say it's so limited i don't know if they could demand that if the neighbors inside if we have to have them coming from that standpoint we have to allow them i'd rather have it inside a building then being visual from the outside so this was a deliberate decision to set the permit to have a discussion about municipal sites the carrier would have to enter in to that discussion is there a municipal site i found the figure forty three thousand nine hundred ninety eight for the to sell anten as the one at highland and the one of the police station and that's two out of december yeah yeah and the other thing is i gave you copies of two hundred forty to register voters in belmont that signed the abstain on this simply because i know the genesis of this impacts the church that i currently attend i think i have a conflict but in general i agree with the idea of having additional input on something like this  you know if if if i may i'm going to vote to recommend favorable action ok for for several reasons i do think it's important to have meaningful resident and neighbor import into the process which i think site plan review doesn't play a lot but the special permit before the zoning board what my concern is under the current of requirements there are gaps so for example if you locate the wire list cell antenna interior  you don't go through the special permit requirement and you don't get meaningful discussion on things like noise i mean even though you know a transformer or an h p a c unit is interior it can still be noisy especially if it's in a location that's high you know it can magnify to to a larger area number two to me there's no clarity i think this is a point you raised judith at the late night well what if what if the antennas are enclosed by glass they're still visible to the exteriors but are they interior now because they're enclosed by glass so i think having a uniform standard for all wireless telecommunication antennas is not a bad thing i think it's a good thing for the town and i'm and also the one that you cited i think additional processes important and i'm always interested in trying quality in neighborhoods and i think if people aren't given a chance to discuss openly they're concerned then it creates a situation where there isn't tranquility and again as i mentioned earlier in this meeting today that as ellen cushman says you can push me over and you can put forth an amendment in and not not be approved  if any of the folks on this list had town benefits my response was that we were employees and you know there are certain benefits available if people choose to take and i think dave is prepared to answer specifically that question if it comes up we talked about that at the time moderate i mean it is the other conference committee of the other comment was that the person who raised it said they could never get the answer and i said gee i don't know why  so we go in and what are we we going in the article the motions here i guess i have eighteen is next this is confusing for sure doing so so to make life simple while we go do you binder is going into price funds for water in store and storm water services  transfer balances this is just transferring the balances or the motion to recommend favorable action so moved second on favor by oracle thirteen this is authorization for upfront funds for chapter nine highway improvements present in detail on monday right out of the box monday the thirteenth the couple but items so article fifteen you're reading this article i believe the motion for it ralph jones is going to make a presentation right and i think what we discussed is you're withdrawing your article yes but you'll have had an opportunity to provide his comments on eighteen and then he'll jim you'll get up in a report out on the vote for article fifty i'm not going to report on it we did get a response from ellen this is reducing the amount of the bond is that the i guess the amount was left over right so it wasn't probably within the ideas that all the work's been done all the work has been done the permit building community now looking at particular change or that they now have funds to cover yet they will let me let me respond if i may just have jen this doesn't change the appropriation the appropriation is the same but what happened is when the bonds went out for sale the town got a premium people paid more for the bonds than their face value so we get a portion of that so we're reducing the debt by the amount of that premium ok gotten so it's not changing the amount of money we're spending which is the citizens petition then we're going to go back to the evil town meeting correct yes and go to monday story enough with the cap of budget you know time meeting in finish with special at five thirty that we nothing else other than the meeting minutes and one license approval for one day ok they will proceed to walk down to the community room to listen in on the ward committee the operation who will be will just plan probably needs to be we need to leave six thirty i think within thirty minutes to get back to our session starts at seven so we can be walking back at six forty five to vote but my hunch is warrant committee is going to go pretty close to seven so when we do that we're going to have to just think that we spent almost an hour and a half talking about it and i just can't see the war committee you know listening to the presentations by the chair of the planning board and  right i guess i would say i think to answer the question i would just like some time if in fact that five minutes of seven or ten minutes of seven you have the benefit of the war community votes because they're going to need to be there at seven also notification from the architectural access board as you are aware the m b t asked for a extension of the decision on the waverley commuter rail station for accessibility requirements so that the memorial day parade and ceremonies were postponed due to the weather we had talked about rescheduling we've done some outreach it appears that the v f w has a commitment on six eleven so six eighteen is an alternative date we had sent out a invite so if you can confirm six eighteen then we can do the outreach an advertisement to have ceremonies at the  get it to the media outlets and we will have a ceremony at the cemetery that will mirror what would normally be done at the conclusion of the stop of the parade to recognize the veterans made i clearly we're working with our veterans organizations and they will participate to the extent that their membership is available so we will have a ceremony on six eighteen but any feasibility study will be notifying the state partners the m b t the d o t and v c r that we have a water contract to par and that we will be in contact with them to talk about various issues in various process is there it's different than building your case you're looking for qualifications so i only up and then you open the top ranking proposal and then  just gets filed away ok back and forth and glen with i think they're coming back in front of leave or right the developer of those three drivers are coming from the fleet that i think that that's my understanding but at the end of the day they will need a certificate occupancy that will have to be signed off by the building to parliament and they will to the extent within the legal requirements that they satisfy the conditions that's what cd will be looking for and basically if they any conditions that are not met or modified then basically they will not be able to get a certificate of occupancy which is a necessary step if you're trying to sell property that you have a certificate  to be able to tell the buyer that they can occupy their their their new unit so that's that is what the process will be so community development they they they they review the property as it built they do and if they see a violation or some building code violation and then there's a final inspection for the certificate that basically will verify the conditions that may have been imposed so when they do that inspection though they'll they'll know about the wet bar in the one property and then that changes the calculation of living space of come back to the planning for us at the idea if if the developer chooses to make changes to what has been approved by the planning he then has the opportunity if he so chooses to go back to the planning board and so