Washington Planning Board

July 5, 2011

0.0 Assembly:

0.1 Members Present:

Lynn Cook, Jim Crandall, Tom Marshall, Nan Schwartz, Lionel Chute

0.2 Alternates Present:

Michelle Dagesse, Steve Terani

0.3 Members and Alternates Absent: Bill Cole

0.4 Visitors: Lionel and Aileen Chute, Kathryn Bartlett

Cook called the meeting to order at 6:36PM. Marshall motioned that Chute take his seat back as Planning Board member. Schwartz seconded the motion. All voted in favor. The Board discussed the way the minutes are presented and how they vary from the Selectmen to the Planning Board.

1.0 Minutes: Chute motioned to approve the following June 1, 2011 meeting and hearing, June 18, 2011 site walk. Marshall seconded the motion. All voted in favor.

2.0          Driveway permits: None

3.0          Mergers:

3.1 Chicoine, 1705 Valley Road, TM 25–13, 1704 Valley Rd. and TM 25-14, 1712 Valley Rd., deeds provided, fee paid. Cook researched the application TM#25-013 will be the new lot number because it has the house. Chute asked about the establishment of 911#s on both the home and the garage. Schwartz motioned to approve. Chute seconded the motion.

Chute recused himself from 4.2. Marshall motioned that Terani sit in for Chute. Schwartz seconded the motion. All voted in favor.

4.0       Old Business:       

            4.1            Chute, Business permit hearing, Farming and pick your own fruit. Marshall motioned to approve the business permit heard at the Public Hearing. (See attached minutes) Schwartz seconded the motion. All voted in favor.

4.2 Sign permits- The Board reviewed the application of Lionel and Aileen Chute for two signs. (1) 2-sided wood sign at 12 square feet at the entrance to business on Halfmoon Pond Road to be placed 35-feet from the centerline. Marshall motioned to approve the application. Crandall seconded the motion. All voted in favor. (2) A two-sided metal or wood sign within the maximal allowable size for a directional sign at the intersection of Rte 31 Mill St (opposite the turnoff) or two one sided signs on either side of Rte 31 near the intersection at the discretion of the Planning Board. The Board discussed and decided that the double sided sign was more appropriate and esthetically pleasing. Cook motioned to waive the Land Use Ordinance 150' from an intersection. Schwartz seconded the motion. All voted in favor. Crandall motioned to approve the sign with the condition. Cook seconded the motion. All voted in favor.

Marshall motioned that Chute sit again in his Planning Board seat. Schwartz seconded the motion.

Cook provided the Board members with information that Kluk had forwarded to the Board. Cook made copies for the other members. After lengthy discussion the Board decided that the 150-foot intersection requirement will be waived and changes will be proposed for a vote at the next Town Meeting.

Laurie Naylor 928 Valley business permit number 105-05 proposed two signs (1) 6-square feet for Idle Times Campground and Highland Lake General Store. Schwartz motioned to approve the existing signs and waive the 150-feet as mentioned above. Chute seconded the motion. All voted in favor. There was discussion regarding the sandwich board that is placed on Rte 31 and the others like it around Town.  The Board members will review at the next meeting. All agreed.

Crandall motioned to approve the application of Allan and Laurie Dube with the condition of a waiver of 150-feet as mentioned above. Schwartz seconded the motion. All voted in favor.

4.3            Lot Assessment progress report, site visit discussion - Schwartz said that the group went to all of the LAE properties and a new notebook has been established for the remaining 17 Town owned lots. The site visits would probably visited within the next month. After discussion it was decided that we put together our recommendations on the LAE sites before continuing to look at the other 17 sites in town. Schwartz will speak to the Conservation Commission at their July meeting about setting up a joint working meeting with PB to look at all the information gathered on each lot that has been visited in LAE and come up with recommendations for the Selectmen on these lots. We will then move on to the other lots in town.

4.4            Subdivision Regulations update – continued to next month and a working meeting will be scheduled in the near future.

5.0       New Business:

5.1       Robert Riessle, Business permit application, Home improvement and repair, 80 Grant Rd. The Board reviewed the application and will send out a site plan review request for exemption for a cottage industry.

5.2 Shane Mulliner, Business permit application, Cordwood, 393 Faxon Hill Rd. The Board discussed and Dagesse will ask Mulliner for additional information.

5.3 Kathryn Bartlett wanted to know the status of the town owned lots that are on the list for potentially selling. Marshall advised that the Planning Board and the Conservation Commission are working on establishing the criteria of each and every lot. Schwartz said that there might be some restrictions placed on these lots if there was any natural resource that needed to be protected. Dagesse advised that the Town would contact the direct abutters of these lots and it would not be an open sale. Bartlett was informed that she would receive a package as an abutter. Marshall asked if this was a time sensitivity issue. Bartlett said no. 

6.0            Communications:                    

6.1       Letter from Howard Nelson concerning Rt. 31 through the center of Washington looking like a junkyard, sent an ordinance that a town in Connecticut put in place.

6.2       Letter from David Kohn, electrician, stating he is no longer operating a business in town.

6.3       Memo from NHOEP with survey and needing a copy of ordinances passed at Town Meeting 2011.

6.4       Copy of request for project review for Feeney, 648 Millen Pond Rd., from NH Division of Historical Resources

6.5       Brochure concerning Community Biomass Energy projects

6.6       Copies of Intent to Cut forms,

Jake Realty Trust, Faxon Hill Rd., TM 15-58

Boisvert, Valley Rd., TM 24-138

Donna Cilley, Rt. 31 North, TM 22-25-2

Donna Cilley, Rt. 31 North, TM 22-5

Sean Crowley, East Washington Rd., TM 13-23

Joseph Roscoe, King St., TM 19-26

7.0            Meeting date - next Planning Board meeting, August 2, 2011, at 6:30PM

8.0            Adjournment:  Crandall motioned to adjourn. Chute seconded the motion. All voted in favor, the meeting was adjourned at 8:38PM.

Respectfully submitted,

 Michelle Dagesse