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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Conservation Regulations Meeting
There will be another public meeting to discuss changes to the conservation regulations on Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 9:00 A.M. in the Civil Defense Meeting Room (downstairs) at town hall. The topic this time will be section 10.18, Buffers.
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Dear Mr. Putnam,
Thank you for this effort to keep folks in the loop. I think it's much needed.
I am very interested in your regulations pertaining to buffers. Are these discussions available in minute form? Can you talk about what exactly is involved. We live in town on a tiny urban lot, so none of your regulations would pertain to our own situation. But we live near the harbor and the beach and a lot of ponds.
One thing we see here in our dense neighborhoods is a huge loss of the vegetated buffers between our lots. It results in loss of privacy and often loss of shade (which, along with the wind has been our town's natural and effective global cooling). At the beach, many of these buffers(or lot line vegetation) are necessary for wind protection, in addition to privacy. On our heavily travelled roads, the vegetation protects us from some of the resulting soot and traffic noise.
The buffers appear to be highly expendable to our permitting boards. They don't see the vegetation as an important element in the high quality lives we have been favored to live down here. There seems to be little interest in protecting them. Five feet of vegetated buffer (shade trees and hedge) around a developing lot does not seem like it could be a hardship for an entrepreneur. The loss of it is a great hardship to the abutters and, collectively, the whole neighborhood.
Perhaps, if I could become familiar with concom regulations and thinking, I might be able to become more persuasive.
One more question. Over the years, the conservation commission meetings have been televised on fctv. If memory serves, they were often shown on a delayed basis...a couple of days after the meeting. Now it seems they are no longer available at all.
Could you tell me how that has come about? When was the decision made to no longer show the meetings? Why? Are they available at all on tape? Perhaps the meetings are shown and I just don't know when.
Thanks for taking the time to share your concerns.
These are public meetings; you can get the minutes from the ConComm office.
You are correct; the ConComm meetings were taped and replayed on FCTV-13. It was a couple of FCTV volunteers who did that for us. I'm not sure why they stopped.
I liked your comments and questions; I thought the answer to the rest of your inquiry was worthy of a main page discussion.
2 comments:
Dear Mr. Putnam,
Thank you for this effort to keep folks in the loop. I think it's much needed.
I am very interested in your regulations pertaining to buffers. Are these discussions available in minute form? Can you talk about what exactly is involved. We live in town on a tiny urban lot, so none of your regulations would pertain to our own situation. But we live near the harbor and the beach and a lot of ponds.
One thing we see here in our dense neighborhoods is a huge loss of the vegetated buffers between our lots. It results in loss of privacy and often loss of shade (which, along with the wind has been our town's natural and effective global cooling). At the beach, many of these buffers(or lot line vegetation) are necessary for wind protection, in addition to privacy. On our heavily travelled roads, the vegetation protects us from some of the resulting soot and traffic noise.
The buffers appear to be highly expendable to our permitting boards. They don't see the vegetation as an important element in the high quality lives we have been favored to live down here. There seems to be little interest in protecting them. Five feet of vegetated buffer (shade trees and hedge) around a developing lot does not seem like it could be a hardship for an entrepreneur. The loss of it is a great hardship to the abutters and, collectively, the whole neighborhood.
Perhaps, if I could become familiar with concom regulations and thinking, I might be able to become more persuasive.
One more question. Over the years, the conservation commission meetings have been televised on fctv. If memory serves, they were often shown on a delayed basis...a couple of days after the meeting. Now it seems they are no longer available at all.
Could you tell me how that has come about? When was the decision made to no longer show the meetings? Why? Are they available at all on tape? Perhaps the meetings are shown and I just don't know when.
Thank you,
Leslie McDonald
Leslie,
Thanks for taking the time to share your concerns.
These are public meetings; you can get the minutes from the ConComm office.
You are correct; the ConComm meetings were taped and replayed on FCTV-13. It was a couple of FCTV volunteers who did that for us. I'm not sure why they stopped.
I liked your comments and questions; I thought the answer to the rest of your inquiry was worthy of a main page discussion.
Brent
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