 All the meeting to order we're here tonight with our goal of Having a select board public meeting our revisions to the Calis-Count plan from 2016 Thank you, John and Jan for coming so you can walk us through Okay So my understanding is this is pretty minor changes the first one being economic development and The second one is the natural resources part two and neither amendment alters the designation of any land area So I know you guys have been working double-duty and overtime. So thank you very much for doing that I see Rowan is on our zoom call Rowan, did you have any public comment? No, I just in here in case anybody had any questions. I'm you know, everyone in North Calis is excited that that count North Calis might get designated as a Center so yeah much enthusiasm north cow. Yeah, and if North Calis does get get designated There are some opportunities for some funding sources through historic tax credits correct Exactly, there's actually quite a few opportunities state through the state to To get tax credits to fund various community associated projects So it's actually a big deal for Memorial Hall and possibly other future endeavors But but in order to apply for any of those tax credits You can only do that if you're designated a village center. Yeah, are you guys doing any work on the hall this winter? Or is it going to stop for the weather? Yeah, not in winter. It's just impossible But we we actually just put out the bids for phase two the rest of the construction process Which would start in May and finish in August or September. So yeah, like, you know fingers crossed It'll all happen next summer all in good time Yeah Started on the public hearing for the changes to the 2016 town plan talking about the economic development piece of it Do you have any Comments or questions for the planning Commission on that piece of the plan? I do not Yeah, yeah, they've been putting in a lot of time Anything you want to update or something with respect to that piece of the town plan No, this is your public hearing. Yeah, I know but I'm just asking you if you have anything you want to tell us about it Okay, and that's your resources section Interior forest blocks and you were mentioning John about That did you have anything you wanted to tell us about that? Showing four different elements that are expected in a horse integrity section That's data that came in right from the state I just sort of gave a different colored hatches to be applicable to Whatever map you have to be looking at And you're the map guy so thank you He's put in an inordinate amount of time on the maps What we noticed is They're in the town plan and when you go to the front of the town plan And you go through the index and they're at the bottom and they do click on there Yeah, but we were noticing that public hearing we couldn't access them So I don't know if there's questions about it go to the town plan. That's not in the town website Okay, and then Scroll down and then you'll click on them and there are four the four maps are there the new ones We took out two old ones. Okay And Do the conservation commission have any input Okay, so they Okay, great Yeah, I don't know if you want does anybody want me to Try to call the maps, I don't know how how we might make that happen here but Really, I don't know the links don't matter. I'm not sure what what we'd see you guys would provide that the conservation commission and Eric Oh, Katie's got them That you Katie. Yeah, she's yeah, Jen. Do you want to direct me to the page that you want them to look at? On the home Go down to the No That's the public hearing Okay Okay, right there those four red maps connectivity block interior forest Very clear and habitat and each of those if you click on that a map should open and the connectivity blocks Are they connecting? They're connecting pieces of land for wildlife Basically, there's one big map the state put together and it shows all the land and call us except subtracted from that our house sites a hundred meters around each house site roads and Some ice fields and what's left are these blocks and each block is a certain acreage the larger that Unbroken land is the more important it is for natural resources and Some of these if you have two large pieces abiding each other then the connection between those two It's more important consider a higher priority connector than within if you have two smaller blocks it's the same Set of blocks in every case, but they're used for sort of different purposes Great And it doesn't matter what kind of wildlife Or Yeah, the little green with the little Docs or whatever is highest and the other green priority connect So what's the difference between tell me again the difference between highest and priority They're both priority, but one's a higher priority I think the ultimate thing would be any future planning commission in terms of doing anything new for New bylaws would we want to work about either where development would be or high Yeah, density averaging only in those in those certain areas So that the connectivity would remain right if there it's going to be development, but that's for Another bylaw issue that's going to come later Okay, right now the names are just placeholders and what they're doing is they're describing adjacencies of tracks of land and you have bigger tracks of land adjacent to a bigger track it's in the darker green and And Where the time is densely settled and and the blocks get too small to have any value for habitat Yeah, so we like annihilated a bunch of habitat Yeah You know aligned with the size of the farce of the area, but also the type of species that inhabit it and there's a little sensitivity So what is connectivity on this to that it isn't just I'm guessing Permits that would have to be So it's here with the element of that would get denied, you know, it's not permanent only at 250 We're only at the legislature about it, but nothing's happened So it's a local zoning and activity that are really 250 only covers like less than 40% of the development Great, that's why the planning effort in hopes that local zoning you can try to mitigate against development in those most sensitive areas And in particular protecting those connecting quarters because if you break those connectors you go isolated blocks Mapping is across Vermont, but it also goes across Maine, New Hampshire or Maine up into the Maritimes They're trying to maintain the connections up through Right because they're on that's all the way across. Yeah, because the wildlife needs that they need that and with climate change Species are migrating north of the ones that are more cold climate. Yeah So Katie can you go back and let's maybe look at the next map quickly Interior forest blocks This is There's a lot of water Yes, yeah, lots of water because all those blue lines are lakes our streams and rivers Okay, you want to go to the next map Katie Repairing habitat So the blue What's the blue with the little dots? That's the riparian You see a hatch, but there's the water the streams and lakes that you've seen on other maps only Many of them now have buffers right So so this is all riparian habitat and like you say, it's very much time Yeah, and there's a lot of purple riparian critter crossings. I love that Turtles John Yeah Yeah, there was a time this summer when I was walking the dogs that like every there was one place on bank moly road that I would walk And I would see those on Pink salamander things. Oh, yeah Newt crossing the road. A lot of them got squished Unfortunately, I rescued a couple Infibian road crossing potential So they're about from the state it wasn't something that air Specifically asked for but it seemed appropriate to put it here. We can do with it what we want, but it's data from the state Does the state offer any kind of designs for Passage for these riparian One example Yes I heard I heard about that. That's really cool. Yes. There was a mess That they did Either Yeah, I remember hearing about that. That's pretty cool project and then the red lines are wildlife roads There's not very many of those John Can you tell me like I Get I get lost Okay, but first I have to get my bearings whereas I Think I can I think I see number 10 pond But can you point to number 10 pond for instance if some of these PDFs you can you can open and close layers I just wanted John to point on the map to like That's number 10. Okay, and curse Yeah So there's quite a bit of Adam is down here It's so a lot of the so a lot of the red lines are also near a lot of water, right? Can you can you scroll So it's interesting the wildlife road crossing stuff is pretty cool Recording animal movements are all right quarters. Yeah Yeah, that's really interesting Okay, next map that's pretty cool. I like that wildlife road crossing stuff This is new Oh my god, it has as much to do with Geological things which contribute to the Ecology of an area as it does Is it the sand level and the the stuff that goes underneath it? Well, tell us your bridge bedrock There's Through here and that supports I guess it makes the water in the fence and swamps reader and so it supports So this is stuff that's underground What is it again This is physical means big diversity But it mostly has to do with geology It's the basis for chicken and Bob. Yeah, it's Chipper and Bob. Yeah, and so According to Eric very few town plans have this It's kind of a new thing physical landscape and when we looked out at other town plans When we were doing this amendment, we saw that there was only one other town that had anything like it So it's like we decided to put it in That's that's very interesting And wasn't it John wasn't it over in the John Bravian wasn't it over in the McCulloch hit there was a really sensitive bog Yeah, it's a fan fan. Yeah Okay Well done well done Fence actually different than this are acidic And Yeah All right, so Anybody want to look at anything else on this Conservation Commission You guys must be pulling your Yeah Just Yeah, thank you. Well done. Thank you so much All right, is there anything else for the public hearing for this Well, there is Yeah, there's Bill Powell there's Rowan Yeah So Do you know what what is the next step it goes to okay if you write in your approval And you vote to approve this. Yeah, it goes to the central Vermont regional plan. Okay It goes then to a municipal review And then once they approve it and I don't know if you've got that into Bonnie because the next municipal review Is in February? Okay, and at that point when they approve it Then it's final it goes to the state and then North Calis has then we have to apply after that we have to send all the documentation for the designated village center to Richard Amore in the state at which point It goes to that board and after they approve that then North Calis Would have their designated village center and Admin would have their new boundary So those two are going in we cannot do that paperwork until after the regional planning Does their approval? Okay, so I would make a motion that we approve the changes to I Think we have to make we should make it in the hearing that I make a motion to approve and Put forth the changes to the Calis town 2016 town plan Okay, any comments questions, okay, all those in favor, please say hi. Hi. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you And that closes the public hearing at 655 Yeah, so now you can watch jeopardy