 01 the time the Amherst Zoning Board of Appeals. When we virtually 6 p.m. Pursuit to chapter 30 of the acts of 2021 and extended again by chapter 2 of the acts of 2023. This meeting will be conducted via remote means. Members of the public who wish to access the meeting may do so via zoom or by telephone. No in-person attendance of members of the public will be permitted. But every effort will be made to ensure that the public can adequately to access the proceedings in real time via technological means. Do I need to read the rest of that? Rob? No, you don't. And I would recommend just going through the agenda. Each part of the agenda just to give an overview. Yeah. So to begin with, we're going to do a roll call. Then we're going to work to approve the minutes from February 8th of 2024 and February 22nd of 2024. We are going to hopefully move to continue the public hearing on FY 2024 16. That's before us to make public meeting discussion, general comment period and any other business not anticipated within 48 hours. So we'll start with doing a roll call. So myself, acting chair, Phillip White, present, Hila Greenbaum, David Sloveter, here, and Sarah Marshall, here, also on the call. We have Rob Wachillam and we're not expecting anyone else. Sorry. I hope not. I would hate to draw someone for literally like a 20-minute, max 20-minute meeting. No, just me. It's okay. So first thing, like I said, has everyone had a chance to look over the minutes for the February 8th, 2024 meeting? Okay, excellent. If no one has any adjustments, I would entertain a motion. Miss Marshall? You're muted. Some people do have adjustments. Only to the spelling of my name on the review of the minutes, approval of minutes from January 11th. Motion by Sarah Marshall. Marshall has two Ls. What page is that on? The first page. Okay. All righty. And then the third page, the top of the third page, I think this is the archipelago. So the ending of the first bullet, I didn't understand what was meant. It says cause a lot of turnover for that commercial space, but also it would take away from residential area, which is currently in crisis. I don't know what that means. Did you say it or did somebody else? No, Craig said it. It was from Tom Reedy's presentation. I mean, he said that word for word when I was watching and viewing the transcript. I will elaborate on what was meant by that. I mean, my, could you read the line again, Sarah? The bullet says, oh, you're right. Kyle answered that building commercial in a different area of the bottom floor would make it basement commercial space and could potentially cause a lot of turnover for that commercial space, which I understand. But also it would take away from residential area, which is currently in crisis. Was it just that like we have a housing crisis? Yeah. He goes like he's been using that a lot when he describes the housing situation. And I guess what he was trying to do is say that if he were to expand the commercial space, it would take away valuable residential space that's well needed. And that's kind of the way he painted that picture during his presentation. But I could definitely elaborate a little bit more. You could just say take away from residential units, which are sorely needed. He didn't agree with him, but he can say it. He said it. So I will, I will make that more clear, I guess, because it seems like it's vague. Right. And then the third page under public meeting. Just again, my name is miss belt. Right. Thank you. That's all. That's usually my line. I didn't find anything this time. This is not correct, Rob. I guess, I mean, according to you, there wasn't anything wrong with either seven minutes. So that makes you feel a lot better because she's always picking them apart. I want you to know that somebody's eating them. Yeah. I appreciate it. I read and I didn't find anything this I must have been sleeping or it was another rainy day. Well, that'll do it. Well, I mean, I would entertain a motion to approve the meetings from the February 8th, 2024 meeting as amended. So move. Good. Do I have a second? Miss Marshall. Okay. We'll move to a vote. The chair votes aye. Mrs. Greenbaum. Right. Ms. Marshall. Aye. Mr. Sloveter. Aye. The vote is unanimous. Moving on to the minutes of February 22nd. Did everyone have a chance to review those? Okay. Do we have anything that when you draw attention to on that? No. But I wasn't part of the meeting. So. I don't know if it's accurate. The motion to approve the minutes from February 22nd. Well, I don't know. So rely on Phillip and David to tell us is correct. Well, I looked over them. I didn't see anything. So. But. All right, well, I'll entertain a motion. Uh, To approve the minutes from February 22nd. Oh, boat. And we have a second. Second to a vote. The chair votes. Mr. Slobiter? Aye. Ms. Marshall? Aye. The vote is unanimous. Yay! The hard part's done. No. So, I guess, Phillip, for the public hearing, so what we technically have to do is, you know how on the agenda you have the full description for that petition? Yep. So, you're going to have to read that and then just make the announcement that, you know, the public hearing's opened. Then afterwards, you know, I put a statement in there that you could read in regards to why we have to continue it and then, you know, take a vote to continue it to that date. All right. I'll just roll with that and if I mess up, let me know. We'll do. So, in the public hearing ZBA FY 2024-16, Rachel and Craig Gibson request for a modification to an existing special permit ZBA FY 2015-00027 under sections 10.33 and 3.3241.6 by the zoning bylaw or of the zoning bylaw to change the occupancy status of a converted dwelling from owner occupied to non-owner occupied with a resident manager with requested waivers from the traffic to impact study, lighting and landscaping plans at 50 McClellan Street, map 11C, parcel 189, R through G, general residence zoning district. The public hearing for ZBA FY 2024-16 is hereby open at the request of the chair who could not make tonight's meeting and the applicant, the board will take a vote to continue the public hearing to next Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. This is due to the fact that the board does not have a full five-member panel for this petition tonight and our chair, Mr. Judge, will join the meeting next week as the chair. Chair, the applicant and the other ZBA members all agree that next Thursday, April 18, 2024 will be an appropriate time to fully hear the petition before the board. Do I need to have a motion for that or a second? You have to call for a motion and there's actually a motion in there that you have to read off so you have to vote to continue the public hearing to April 18, 2024, at 6 p.m. So if you could just state that. Okay, yeah, I see it now, yeah. So I would entertain a motion to continue the public hearing for ZBA FY 2024-16 to Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Do I have such a motion? So moved. Very good. All right, so then Ms. Marshall, we second that. All right, I'll take that to a vote. The chair votes aye. Ms. Greenbaum, do you have your hand up? Yeah, I wonder if I should make my disclosure now, I'll hold up for next week. Hold up for next week because Steve's going to read his general spiel. He'll do like the submissions and then you could probably give your disclosure then if you wanted to. Okay, okay. Okay, so the chair votes aye. Mr. Sloveter. Aye. Ms. Marshall, you're muted. Aye. I saw your mouth move but I figure we needed all the record. So I'm Ms. Greenbaum. Aye. Excellent. Voters unanimous. Motion carries. Motion carries. We need a motion to adjourn now. No, no, no. Do we need to close the public hearing? Oh no, no, so you continue it. So since you needed it. Okay, that's all right. So as far as the public meeting, we won't have a public, there's no meeting to take place, correct? Yep, that's correct. So no discussion will take place. We do need to do the general public comment period. So I don't know if we would have anyone in the waiting room. We do not. But we still need to do it anyway. So if anyone on attendance wishes to make a public comment on any matter not before the board tonight, you can indicate such by using the raised hand function or by pressing star nine if you're calling in. Remember to please keep your comments limited to around three minutes. I'm hearing crickets. I'm actually hearing crickets in the background. That's how empty this room waiting here. All right, so moving on to other business not anticipated within 48 hours. Mr. Wachila, do you have anything for us? Sure. Aside from this being moved to next Thursday at six, we are anticipating on May 9th, which is our next normally scheduled meeting after the 18th to have three petitions before the board. So it'll be a pretty busy meeting. None of them are filed yet, but they will be shortly. April 25th, my apologies. That's the next normally scheduled meeting. So it's the 25th and then the May 9th meeting. So on April 25th, we have the continued hearing for the Shoesbury Road Solar Project, which Mr. Slovidar is a part of. And then we have the continued hearing for 368 A Shea Street, which is the flag lots. Let me see what's in it. So was it Hilda, Sarah and Philip? Oh, I was. I couldn't remember whether I was on it. I was right. I think you were. David, are you on that one? I am. Yeah. Okay. Yes, you are. Sarah? I don't, at least I haven't attended a meeting where that was discussed and I cannot. Well, I have a school committee meeting very, very. Yeah. So you probably were on that panel then if you don't have that in your calendar, because they would have voted to continue that a while ago. So I know David's on that one. Hilda, you might be on that one. I'm still not sure about you, but I can't remember. I'm pretty sure I am. I would have to go back and review my notes, but I'm pretty sure I am. Why did we continue? What do you remember? Because of the lighting? Oh yeah, the lighting and because they didn't really have finalized building plans. So they couldn't show the lighting and then there was an issue with stormwater. So they were concerned that the site was so sloped that it might affect the neighbors. We should really look at the. Yeah. And I'm still waiting for planned submissions from the applicant, but I'm going to reach out to them tomorrow and see if they can get that to us sooner rather than later. If I'm in fact on it, and as I said, I can't remember, but I know I was there. I would like to see that site and I sort of wonder why we aren't doing site visits on most of these things. We did a site visit to that one. I think it was just Steve and me and Rob. Yeah, because nobody knew about it. I didn't see it. Thinking about now, Hilda, I don't think you're on that panel. I think it's David, Steve, Phillip, Everold, and Craig. That's what I think. I think I was there, the indie writer. Yeah. You're there one way or another, Hilda. You were. You're like me on the solar panels. I'm not on that one, but I keep being on meetings where it's on. And I think it always throws Steve. That's really a hard one. And the one that's coming up to conservation this week is more of these battery things from this one's going on Montague Road. And I haven't read anything about these batteries that are not scary. They're not going with power. Let's not deliberate. No deliberation. Okay. Second, well, we did. Maybe it will be relevant to remind that panel, whoever it is. We did authorize a, what was it? Supplemental energy storage site on Sundaland Road on Route 116. Yeah, I told Kelsey about them. Yep. And we won't deliberate too much on that. But I do want to also, yep, so one more, one more announcement. So I just want to congratulate and this vote went to the CRC, Mr. Sloveder and Ms. Greenbaum. So Mr. Sloveder had a positive vote to become a full member through the CRC. I don't know if it's official to Town Council yet, David. It is. They did. And I was sworn at. I've already been sworn at. Felt like it. Yeah. No, I went to Town Hall. No, I'm, it's official. Yes. Congratulations. Thank you. So David is a full member taken over the rest of John Gilbert's term, who left abruptly last fall, and then Hilda is going to continue as an associate. So congrats to the two of you. I look forward to working with you. Those were all the appointments for July 1 also. Yes, they were. I appreciate having you all around no matter what way. You may not. Don't speak so fast. You may want to put a lock on my mouth. Hey. All right. If there's no other business before the board, I would entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. There we go. Do I have a second? Second. Excellent. So to call that to the vote, the chair votes aye. This is Greenbaum. Aye. Ms. Marshall. Aye. Mr. Sloveder. Yes. As that motion is not up for debate, which we should have done before that, but we're not going to. I now call this meeting the Zoning Board of Appeals, the town of Amherst, adjourned at what? Not 11, 18, 6, 18. Yes. Guess what?