Town of Chatham - Planning Board
Zoning By-Law Rewrite Subcommittee
Working Session
Meeting 3 - Draft
October 18, 2005
Present: Chairman Wayne Jostrand, Skip Kendrick, Len Sussman (3:55 PM)
Also Present: Paul DeCoste, Town Planner, Town of Chatham; John Connery, Connery Associates and a number of interested Chatham residents
Call to Order – 2 PM – Wayne Jostrand called the meeting to order.
Review of proposed zoning by-law rewrite draft (including revisions, see Handout 1 attached):
1. Airport hazard – refer to FCC regulations.
Section II
2. Sec II, A2 – Mr. Connery will put back in reference to special permit.
3. Sec II, A2 - Zoning enforcement officer can set decibel level if noise and vibration are offensive.
4. Section II, A3 – add “all above determined by zoning enforcement officer”.
5. Sec II, B1 – add definition of Farm Stand – like to see size controlled.
6. Sec II, B2 – height of antenna can be controlled.
7. Sec II D8B – same footprint and volume i.e. no second floor – verbiage should be “and/or”.
8. Sec II, 4 D – typo – should be “Non-conforming Commercial Structures.
9. Page 8 b1 – Mr. Connery will reword to clarify.
10. Page 8 3a1 - will be reworded.
11. Page 9 E3 – “wholly incidental” delete word “wholly”.
12. Mr. Connery will fill in section numbers instead of leaving them blank.
13. Scientific research – Mr. Connery will rework this – maybe give an example to help clarify.
14. Daycare – small equals 10 or fewer – Mr. Connery will do definitions of child care and day care.
15. Page 4 D3b – State sets size.
General:
16. Mr. Connery will make changes and send copies.
17. Mr. Jostrand would like the changes in the Planning Board (PB) packets.
18. New proposed zoning map – will be provided to PB tonight. This is preliminary – need to do zoning and then do districts. Mr. Kendrick said that we need to be sure that people know that the red dotted lines are not definitive.
Section III
19. Format repeated for each district.
20. Will have matrix at end of document.
21. Current bylaw has “Special Conditions” - this is found on page 36 e1) in proposed draft.
22. Page 98 E and page 10 – should affordable be listed under residential uses – found in Section VI - a note will be added as to where it can be found.
23. Page 11 C – Downtown Residential Transition District – this will be reviewed with full PB – subcommittee recommends that this be eliminated.
24. Page 12 – Need definition of cluster development - attached single family is town house condo.
25. Page 12 D – Mr. Connery used current verbiage.
26. Page 13 e – Mr. Kendrick feels needs revamp – he suggests that e 2) be eliminated. It will be left as is for now.
27. Page 14 – E1d) needs to be in definitions.
28. Page 14 e1e1) – Mr. Jostrand suggested change to 1,500 square feet.
29. Page 14 E 1e add restaurant and then delete c.1), 2), 3), 4) – recommend to PB “as of right equals 1,500 square feet and with special permit equals 2,000 square feet.”
Next meeting will resume with page 15 F.
Mr. Sussman suggested reducing number of subcommittee sessions in favor of an all day Saturday session. Mr. Connery said he could make Saturday or another evening or Judi Barrett could come. All agreed that the session was much more productive with Mr. Connery in attendance. Mr. Kendrick suggested starting the subcommittee meeting on the Tuesdays of the regularly scheduled November zoning bylaw re-write meetings and working right through for as long as participants could stay. The full PB zoning re-write meeting would be cancelled for November 1, 15, and 29. The members agreed with this plan and decided to present it to the full PB at that night’s meeting.
The group had a lengthy discussion on the target date for presenting the re-write to the Town Meeting. Mr. Sussman would like to shoot for May 2006 and Mr. Jostrand feels November 2006 is more feasible. Mr. Connery reminded the members that two or three public meetings need to be held. He said that if the goal is November 2006 then we would be ready to have public meetings in the spring and summer of 2006. If a May 2006 Town meting is the goal, then the subcommittee must be through its review by the end of November 2005. Mr. Connery expressed concern about getting everything done for May 2006. Mr. DeCoste agreed. Mr. Jostrand said that it is most important to do a good job. He feels it is better to be ahead of schedule than to miss a deadline.
Adjournment – The meeting adjourned at 5:35 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
Genie H. Griffin, Secretary
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