thanks so here's the plan for tonight we are going to hear a introduction and a brief overview of the proposed regulations as they stand hopefully that will clear things up and i've heard some  interesting comment comments on what's actually in here so we'll go through it so wrong the same page and then we'll move section by section taking public comment and discussing and then the last item is any possible action the select board might take on this so that's the plan tonight will take public comment limit of two minutes per person on the first round please stand and state your name i mean just a reminder that  if you turn to the next day you have a few more changes buildings may be front to back one behind the other we could have parked in between them but it would still be in front of one on route two so what we're trying to do is already parking from town to eliminate parking in the so there is a provision here in the group which required it made way for buildings with footprints that exceed ten thousand square feet again this applies to the largest sized building up to seventy thousand square foot footprint that you know you have to have a use and of conditional used approval these are the uses that would require approval from the development review board to receive permission to begin building could vote to set a special election to ask the town to vote on these in that town or the such court has a year from november before they have to take one of those to start with the conditional uses and take questions or comments on the us or the questions or comments the allowable conditional uses in these changes of the definitions all right so the definition of a standard restaurant which is what be what was previously allowed is in establishing where food and drink are prepared served and consumed primarily within the principal is more of a bar use and that's why part of the reason why the stipulation was that it would be associated with  so the process late meaning factoring is manufacturing facility where the processing and fabrication of certain materials and products were no process involved will produce noise libration air pollution fire hazard or noxious noxious commission which will disturb or in danger neighboring properties so sometimes these are things like you know furniture manufacturing facility is wood products manufacturing facility and we kind of thought that the compromise for allowing retail space out there would be if you're producing your own product out there you could sell it in a small space out there so some manufacturers want to be able to kind of like that outfit or small space where people can come their factory and be able to purchase what they're building be yeah and that was one of the things i think we we went back and forth on someone else can can jump in if they want to but we never reach a consensus on removing it or leaving their leaving it  enough to the scale that they would need to under that size or the tooth to story seventeen thousand square feet and i think that's part of what rep led to the struggle of whether it should come out or  hoping that the wedding venue that could possibly come to town that it would limit that action so those are some of the conversations that occurred earlier but i think the no parking in five facing you might help with that type of establishment  a hotel or motel is a structure containing more than six guest rooms with access usually from a common hallway and in your guest house is a residential structure with more than six rooms offering overnight lodging in which may serve food and or alcoholic beverages to gues and to the general public access to each room is from the interior so you know you sometimes see the hotel or motel six s or something right where everyone walks on a common balcony so that's that's the biggest difference compromise or mitigate the effect of that the two hundred foot setback was introduced to through the flat roof required so any building that would qualify to be allowed a flat roof which is a building with a footprint of ten thousand square feet to seventeen thousand square feet would have to be set back from root to more than two hundred feet i don't know do we have the map here clear so you'll see that the two hundred foot line up front end with how far back off route to that is and exactly how many properties could accommodate a building there now a lot of space necessarily as the current lot can figure meant so that was kind of the balance we're trying to strike how much how easy do you make it to build a building of that size and if you're making it easier where do you put it and that's you know i don't know if mark anything to add from the planning commission's discussion on fire roof suggestions that would not be attractive for certain things so and so the setback was put in there to ensure it wouldn't be visible from development b and commercial use so there's any comments or questions on that as well and invite those now as well as other the next section is three point four point five parking was the big change  about the richmond market in town and that's not that's not what are brick and so what we came to realize and you can have the appearance of more cost effective easier to maintain and just as beautiful maybe more so in some cases balancing the economics of it and then protect i think it's a really strong statement that structure shall have an appearance of water broke i think it makes it very clear for the d r p that this is what needs to happen and so in terms of balancing the economic side that alan just spoke of the change in my opinion is a really strong statement for whoever is reviewing an application that it must look like what are broken what are brick which bits within the village the other texture in the village understand that development becomes much easier so one of the reasons to make these changes and to do it quicker rather than wait is to protect what we have out there and the character of the gateway we engage in a product process town plan and envisioning what go out there so one reason to take out retail and restaurant space for the time being is to say look there's a lot of concern that there's going to impact on the drive walk ability of the downtown the viability of restaurants especially restaurants currently in the village and possibly the you know some sort of retail space drying like ri saying drying business outside of the village and one thing we heard and we already know is that people love the village of richmond so if you look at it as a long term process this is a step too to protect what we have but still allow for the water sewer extension to happen in a safe and responsible way and then allow us to continue gauging the process of envisioning what what the gate we will look like in twenty years you want to add because while we have a nice turnout in a lot of we've gotten some e mails and put from people we really don't have full town engagement in the town planning process is going to allow for that so a lot of great ideas we can continue to work on this but if we implement some changes now that would take retail in restaurant out into the full planning is done but allow for some you know immediate light manufacturing opportunities to be pursued that that that's the balance i don't think we're making either side happy with any of this but it's really a balance we're trying to strike that we can move forward with some development in the gateway while then we do the full down planning process and for those  consultant over the next year we're going to be doing a town planning process that's going to do a vision ing of our whole town include the gateway and then look at our zoning in a more comprehensive way so these amendments came to us before we knew about the town town planning process and we've been considering them by for how many months now a year here just so we're trying to move forward on some amendments that may allow some opportunity of the light manufacturing we've been discussing but also to take a larger are allowed to make that we can make substantial changes i can tell you the definition of a substantial change that's not defined by by putting back retail we would i would encourage the board to warn another public hearing commercial development one of my major concerns is the lack of available commercially all property in town for that type of purpose and if you look on the map  don't want to get my groceries every other day versus making multiple trips to littles and over the course of a week or whatever if we can find a way to create a area that is going to attract consider challenging that in four because the town quiet as a coup says it's going to match the character in the shape of the buildings in town i'm going to say three buildings just don't cut it thank  why that's in their uses they should stay out until there's further discussion and it seems like there's a lot of discussion on this that it's and we should really spend some time on that i think one of the things  that it's a flat roof so it's it's interesting to think about buildings in perspective and i find it useful to look at it mock ups of buildings to help get an idea what it could potentially look at it look like so urge you to to really play this things out and you know maybe it makes sense to have a flat roof and larger buildings but don't set them back so far that project be buncoed was one of them and the other two have been solidified this is owing was proposed and has been written and is being considered i would say by the slack board under the assumption that that is going to the vote was again a vote means a simple majority to approve it so the bond has been approved in the authority to issue the bond has been issued received so that's the that's one of the parts of the funding that is required so that's why we continue to move forward with these under the assumption that it will there will be installation of that extension of the services so the i couldn't answer that question as to why the water than i would have actually cast you know a very very thin majority i concluded to be largely about the zoning and development issues not about the water sewer but the development whether we call it pressure opportunity associated with the water sewer i think many people voted against it and were voting against it not because they are against water and sewer in principle but because of what water and sewer would create in terms of opportunity and pressure in  so i think that i mean just like some the conversations here today i think if people were voting against it it was the for many people a proxy vote against the kind of development they did not want to see in the interpret it you know this is been a learning process for me as well and i think i would be curious to see what the just the water users how they feel about it where proving them wrong heard a system that they're going to pay fully for so it's so hard to tea that out but i do think again they a lot of the fifty fifty was because it was about development in the gateway that we didn't want to see and hopefully we're trying to strike some balance here move forward and the way that allows for a larger planning process was so i guess we have the ball in the water being so close fifty percent of the people in this room have been different ideas we all have our own little piece of to mean the zoning to what i can tell you my personal perspective only which is when i think about water sewer going to the gateway this is brant been brought up a couple of times here today  without some of the zoning changes including the mix with essentially many developers who want to do is build dance residential and that's part of the one point seven percent of our town that zoned for commercial so when i look at it doing nothing creates pressure to build dense residential because of the water sewer there so i see this is sort of a preemptive effort to avoid that development if we build  residential there it will be there for as long as i'm here it will take away the commercial opportunities so that's why i think this is relevant in time and i agree with target there are stands right now there are things we've all heard people down there so and it also allows for some development we know that we may want here so it gives us an opportunity do this now we have more time to do the  fact based conversations and the assumptions that many of us may have assumptions that actually on inspection are not true but i will have a conversation with you other final comments or questions thousand square foot is being consistent with the town plan but i see it as sort of an unfortunate trade off for no retail investor out there to continue to promote growth in town not competing and i can't businesses so try to strike a balance right so we spent a year talking about forty acres of town maybe and big big water sewer decisions and it's been hard to make this bri but the flexibility to see some growth in our water sewer system and see what the residents builders and developers who live in this town can do with the land at this time i think