 Okay, welcome to the December 12th planning board meeting. There are five of the seven members here, one of them our chair not being here, so I'm subbing in this chair tonight. We're starting a little bit late. It is 7.09. The first thing on our agenda is minutes, which we have no minutes time, sorry about. So we have to kill 30 seconds and then we are gonna start the public hearing part of the agenda. So, okay, so I'm going to read the preamble and then we'll start from there. So in accordance with the provisions of section 5 and 11 of chapter 40A, these public hearings have been duly advertised and notice has been posted and mailed to the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Agreement Development, the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission and Budding Towns. These hearings are held for the purpose of providing an opportunity for interested citizens to be heard regarding the proposed amendments to the Amar Zoning Bylaw. These amendments will be on the agenda for the Town Council at an upcoming meeting. So, 7.10 zoning bylaw changes mandated by the Amar's Home Rule Charter. To see if the town will vote to amend the zoning bylaw by repealing the zoning bylaw in its entirety and adopting a new zoning bylaw, including amendments recommended by the Bylaw Review Committee to bring the zoning bylaw into conformance with the Amar's Home Rule Charter as adopted March 27th, 2018. So, first we're going to have our director, Christine Bestrup, speak, and then we have a couple of other all staff people who are here to speak. So, after the charter was adopted in March, a committee was established, the Bylaw Review Committee, to review the zoning bylaw and the general bylaw of the town of Amar's to bring them into conformance with the charter. And the Bylaw Review Committee consisted of three members, and Mr. Kravitz, who's the economic development director, was their staff person. The three members were Bob Michi, who used to be our town council and has also worked for the state and the capacity of an attorney and he has been generous enough to donate his time to us for this project. There was also a Mr. Hargreaves and a Mr. Kyriek on the committee. And they spent months meeting regularly, looking at both the zoning bylaw and the general bylaw, and they have made recommendations which they would like to present to you. And the idea here is that you would make a recommendation to the town council as to whether you think this is worthy of adoption. And so you may ask Mr. Kravitz for this Bylaw Review Committee to give you a further explanation. Mr. Ritchie is the chair of the committee, so I'll defer to him. Yeah, taking the task that we assumed, most of our time was devoted to the general bylaws, which required a considerable amount of attention to effect a report with recommendations to the council that rocked those bylaws into conforming with the child. The zoning bylaws were much well organized, established, body of law, with a coherent, alphanumeric system of order. And substantively, probably needed to have few changes, mainly to identify the obvious replacements of select board with the town council and town faces and manager and others. And perhaps one or two places where it could be either or maybe something else indeed. So we may have a report with explanations of how we came to the conclusion of the relatively few zoning bylaw adjustments that would be required for the document that you, I think, had in front of you, if adopted to serve as the zoning bylaws of the town, adopted holding the title as the most of action of our council. And we thought that was the best way to interpret the charge to us under the charter. And it reflects a lot of work done by town staff with respect to the adjustments of renumbering some sections that needed to be attended to. So this was an opportunity to fix a few ministerial adjustments with the design of the bylaw that was currently expressed. And so basically that was it. Most of our work, as I said, devoted to the general modelist. So the process that we're engaged in, as you indicated at the beginning, is to satisfy the statutory standard of chapter 40 of Jesus' zoning act. Chapter 40 of section five says that this body has to have a hearing on it advertised for a couple of weeks. And at that point, the condition upon which the council is authorized to legislate will be satisfied. You don't have to like it or not. I think you just have to report to the council that you had this meeting, the public had an opportunity to come and look at it. And then the council is jurisdictionally equipped to have. Can I say one more thing, which is that the plan where did receive a transmittal memo from Doug Slaughter, the chair of the select board, transmitting this document to the planning board for its purpose of holding the public hearing. And just to address the issue of the order of change during the transition, we had one executive body sending it over to the select board sent it over and now you look for it after the legislative body. That matter is simply subsumed into the way the child was written. The attorney general has consistently interpreted these two events, the planning board hearing and the transmittal to it by the select board of the town or anyone else under the name child. As irrelevant, as long as the two things were done, it really didn't matter the order in which they were done. If there was any concern about the way it was transmitted to the planning board, those concerns to the board. Would the board like to have Mr. Ritchie, Mr. Grads walk through these changes one by one? I don't think it's necessary. I have to review the changes that are also minimally sensitive to me. The only issue is maybe the dioramic section, which is complicated and it would be useful to know what is going on here that may not be DI. I agree with that. If you could step through that one. The only other one that had any substituted changes was the CBA, that where you changed the membership writing. That was part of the charter. You know, you can't have a part of that. This was trouble. I just wanted them to say it because everything else is pretty much what you said, a cotton paste of new wording for old wording. So like one sentence, just explain why that, in how that one's covered. And then the marijuana, which is quite large and it wasn't right up at least. The individual components of the provision ceiling with marijuana may be confusing, but they were confusing in their current residence. The goal was to take them and just move them without making any substituted changes to them. Yeah, and I can take that a step further. I believe what happened when these were passed is they were all passed and the subsequent definitions were not renumbered. So there was going to need to be a renumbering. Also, keeping all the marijuana definitions together seemed like a sensible thing to do. And doing so and just renumbering it would then put the definitions not all in alphabetical order. So this was a solution that didn't change any of the definitions. It's literally just putting a header, 12.31 marijuana uses and then moving all of the definitions related to marijuana uses under that header so that they're, both 12.31 is alphabetically correct and within 12.31 it remains alphabetical. And I believe the planning board would have, if not for the charter transition and the other changes the planning board probably would have had a public hearing and asked the clerk to make non-substitutive changes I think which would have been allowed. We thought rather than having two public hearings and noticing them both, we could just simply do it together. So if I'm looking at the full bylaw, so and then he gave us a memo. So we see the new inserted text from marijuana and then if we went to like page 114, even though it doesn't look exactly the same, it's just been shuffled is what you're saying. There was another marijuana related thing I think in the dementia table. Yeah, section 33 on the second page of the memo and again it was just, I think one of the sub items had been deleted and so we just changed the numbers from four to three and from five to four. And that was the only change there to clarify. Does the planner, does anyone else have questions? Anyone else? All right, so at this point we can open it up to the public. If there's any public here, please state your name and your street address and you can ask any questions, are there any questions? No, okay. So, what are we thinking? Thank you for all the work that we've done. Oh yes. I just wanted to work a little bit. May have been in the other general bylaw but I think this is, this seems non-controversial to me and I would move that we recommend, as planning word recommend to the town council to adopt these changes to go as our bylaw. Thank you. Okay. And please have a drink. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So, with that, is there any more discussion? Okay, so we can have a vote on favor to unanimous. Thank you, again. Thank you. Thank you. Very detail-oriented. So, we can move on with our agenda. We move on to old business and A, I believe Chris was telling me that we don't have any signer of decisions. Unfortunately, we didn't get the decisions we're doing today, but we'll have you with us tomorrow. The special permit decision needs to be final by Friday. So, I would ask planning board members to come here to sign the decision, or I could drive it to your house to get your signature. The reason it needs to be signed, it needs to be final to the town court by Friday because it expires on the 16th. That's just the special permit. The site planning review can be taken very early to future date. That's not so time-sensitive. So, what is our review plan for next week? I would prepare tomorrow and drive it to your house. I don't know. No, we can come on the sign. How do you do? Sometimes, between tomorrow and Friday, say, what if we say two o'clock tomorrow and it has to be the clerk's office by 4.30 on Friday, so we, but I wouldn't want you to, wait until then. Like, how about two o'clock on Friday? You want me to do that? What, all the same time? I think you want me to do it. Let's do one o'clock on Friday. One o'clock on Friday. So, after two o'clock tomorrow. So, can we all sign it by one o'clock on Friday? Is that the question? By one. Yeah, I'll probably count Friday morning. I will, too. Okay. And I can drive it to wherever you want. I can't do it. I can't bring my door. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It'd be ready by one. I would better be by two o'clock tomorrow. Come on. Okay. If I ever fail to come tomorrow, then I'll still get my mail and put it back in the company's site. Great. It's more like that. I'm going to do it Friday morning. I'm going to do it Friday morning also. I'm going to schedule. Are you going to tell the other two members today? Yes. We need one more member to sign it. Mr. Burton doesn't need to sign it. What? He doesn't vote in favor of it. Yeah, you were against. You were voted opposed to it. So that's true. Your presence. So you don't have to be bothered to sign it. Only just voted in favor. So the four of you plus, Mr. Stetson and... Ms. Chow. Ms. Chow. Yes. And I'm very sorry about that. It's just been very busy. We've had people sick and changing jobs. No worries. No worries. Thank you for all the stuff that you did. That's right. No problem. We should stop it. All right. Great. Any other topics? Not anticipated? Business. No. I'm just going to bring up that Chris did send us an e-mail regarding the E&F for the Applied Golf of Photovortag Power System project. We should have all gotten that. And nothing else is preceded with that. No meeting scheduled. You know, we sent this letter to the state and then they're going to issue a certificate on E&F and buy it on an application form. It will tell the applicant if there's any questions that need to be answered. It's possible that they may require an environmental impact statement, but I don't know whether they will or not. The Applied Golf is right now upstairs in the Conservation Commission meeting and the people who are interested in it should go upstairs after this meeting if they have to say. It will probably take more than one evening to come up and then it will probably come to me as soon as we work appeals later in January. Probably January 31st. Okay, so now we move on to new business topics not recently anticipated for eight hours. The only thing I have is scheduling our next meeting. I assume we don't want a meeting on the 19th next week unless we need one. We don't need time to meet on the 19th. So the next one would be January 2nd. I'm sorry. We're not to do the January 7th. Yeah, so make it the 9th. We're giving the 16th. 16th is the most. So the 16th is the next schedule of meeting. That's the meeting that we requested that the solar people can make a presentation on the 16th or the 16th. So January. So the next meeting will not be until the 16th. Okay, unless we head from there. Yes, okay. So that's good. Then there will possibly be a meeting on the 30th if there's a lot of business. Okay, so we move on to are there any form A and R's? Okay, any upcoming ZBA applications? Not that I haven't told you about. I haven't told you about any upcoming SPP, SPR. There's one ZBA that I have. There's one ZBA that I have. The Medical Marijuana Facility on Medostream. They are coming in with an application for special permit for recreational marijuana sales. So that will probably be heard on January 31st as well. Thanks. That's RISE, isn't it? RISE. Okay, so back to the SPP, SPR. So now we move on to item eight, which is plan book, committee, and liaison reports, which Chris has told me earlier that obviously the council hasn't moved on any of the new appointments and such. So we have what it is, but I'll run through the list. Pioneer Valley Planning Commission. We don't have any tomorrow. So we don't have anyone for the Community Preservation Act right now. We don't know if they have that. I don't know if they're meeting. Mr. Group is nominated, but yeah, they haven't. You don't need to get an introduction to that. Okay. Agricultural Commission, that's vacant. Design of View Board. We have had no meetings since our last planning board meeting. Okay. Greg's not here. He didn't report on the Amherst, but the Housing Trust, I do know this. Is there a meeting coming up? Yes. I came up last week, actually. I think it was the 6th. We have to do the other meeting. Okay. Zone and subcommittee. We don't even have anyone here to report on that. UTAC, there's nothing to report on. Either of those. The working working group is a meeting next Wednesday. But I don't have to report. So the next is report on the chair. I have nothing besides I hope you all have great happy holidays for your families and friends and anything from report to stats. Same from staff. Happy holidays. Great, happy holidays for you. All right. And John, my internment. We're good. Wow. This might have been a record. I think so. Thank you. Thank you. We're all good.