 that in fact you have did you see Pam's email are you able to find that I'm looking I got it here it is here we go all right okay so welcome to the Amherst Planning Board meeting of August 25th 2021 my name is Jack Gemsick and as a chair of the Amherst Planning Board I am calling the meeting to order at 6 31 p.m this meeting is being recorded and is available the Amherst media livestream minutes are being taken pursuant to chapter 20 of the acts of 2021 this planning board meeting including public hearings will be conducted via remote means using the zoom platform the zoom meeting link is available on the meeting agenda posted on the town's website calendar listing for this meeting or go to the planning board webpage and click on the most recent agenda which lists the zoom link at the top of the page no in-person attendance of the public will be permitted however every effort will be made to ensure the public can adequately access the meeting in real time via technological means in the event we are unable to do so for reasons of economic hardship and despite best efforts we will post on the town of Amherst website and audio or video recording transcript or other comprehensive record of proceedings as soon as possible after the meeting board members I will take a roll call when I call your name and meet yourself answer firmly and then places yourselves back on mute Maria Chow and Tom Long and I'm just getting up the roster here Tom Long was excused yeah he's excused Andrew McDougal I do not see Doug Marshall present and then Janet is excused and Johanna is excused so board members if technical issues arise we may need to pause temporarily to fix the problem then continue the meeting discussion may be suspended while the issues are addressed in the minutes we will note if this happens please use the raise hand function to ask a question or make a comment we'll see you raised hand and call on you to speak after speaking remember to remute yourself opportunity for 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looking for public comment here looks like we have two attendees Dorothy Pam okay so with that the public hearing there's a preamble that I can bring that up here okay so this is a for public hearing scb 2022-01 scb 2022-01 for 11 13 east pleasant street for archipelago investments LLC it is 635 and in accordance with the provisions of the mgl chapter 40a this public hearing has been duly advertised and notice thereof has been posted and is being held the purpose of providing the opportunity for interested citizens to be heard regarding scb 2022-01 for 11-13 east pleasant street request approval for a two lot preliminary subdivision plan under mgl chapter 41 sections 81 l and 81 s for several lots map 11c-275 11c-276 11c-277 11c-309 11c-310 all in the bg's only district um I don't believe we have any board members disclosures but I'll I'll ask I seen on um and then after the presentation is that who's that coming from so I don't believe the applicant is here tonight I'll check the roster but no he's not here the applicant has um sent a letter and would you like me to read it sure um dear planning board members I'm writing to request that the planning board well this was a letter you had last week extend the 45 day review period for preliminary subdivision plan to a date in late september or early october and preferably hold a public hearing on the application on september 29th um I'm noting that andrew mcdougall has joined the meeting yes hi andrew sorry for being late hi everyone so the idea here is that you would um you have opened the public hearing and now that you would take a motion to continue the public hearing to um september 29th and I'm going to suggest the time of seven o'clock um and um and then uh not take any testimony or um you wouldn't take any testimony from the applicant because he's not here but don't take any testimony from the public either and then um just uh vote to continue okay we have a a motion to do that Doug yeah I move that we continue the public hearing to september 29th uh we have a time at seven seven seven o'clock excuse me seven o'clock seven o'clock um I guess that's my motion I do I wondered if there was going to be any mention of the fact that we don't have a quorum and you don't have a quorum either yep yeah well you do have a quorum actually now that andrew has joined you have jack and maria and yourself and andrew so that's four that's a quorum okay and it's not a special permit so you don't need five votes you only need four yeah andrew do you want a second I was going to second the motion and just comment that I'm drinking in the power right now so um this is great andrew you missed the discussion this is going to be like our shortest plenty word meeting ever definitely so um um okay any discussion on this and I seen on so we'll do a roll call um maria prove and andrew hi Doug hi and I am an I as well so it's four zero and uh going to the report of the chair I have nothing report of staff I have nothing either but I'm looking forward to meeting with you next week on Wednesday September 1st okay but I I do know but we don't need to discuss this but CRC has been doing some things and but we can certainly discuss that next next week I don't think it's going to change anything right and what do we have I'm looking to see what we have next week next week you have the emmers college sign project and then you have a discussion of the apartment zoning bylaw and parking zoning bylaw okay and the emmer survival center is coming back to you to talk to you about the fate of their shed that they got permission to have to install last year and one of the conditions of their permit was that they come back and let you know what you know how long is this shed going to be there um and I know I'm wondering like Maureen's build-out analysis for the apartment yeah that seems to be you know just a lot of a lot of uh new information um valuable no doubt um and again we're deliberating on the apartment so I'm just wondering um yes she's going to have that information for you I think we sent out something yesterday didn't we and um and I believe she's planning to update that further and um we'll send that out you know whatever updated information she has prior to the meeting okay you do have um election of officers on your agenda and um another thing is ANR an ANR for research drive so we'll be having those things in your packet I'm uh do you mind me asking what that is because I thought that was already built out so um yeah I can tell you it's um Kate Atkinson who's a doctor who has a building on research drive uh has purchased or is in the process of purchasing a lot from the gentleman who has a lot closer to old Belcher Town Road and she wants to build a parking lot there um she's getting approval of the parking lot under article 14 which is that emergency um mechanism that we put in place last summer to allow the building commissioner to okay certain things particularly with regard to uh both downtown dining but also with regard to medical anything having to do with medical issues um so she's gotten approval for that but now she wants to connect the two properties and Ron Lavertia owns a one foot strip of land alone along research drive and he's going to sell her part of that one foot strip of land so she can connect her two properties it's very it's sort of an arcane type of thing but um you'll see it once you receive a copy of the plan and um we'll explain it again next next week all right well I have a lot of uh experience on research drive over the years so I'll be interested to see that uh I see Doug's hand and then Andrew yeah I was wondering why the subdivision request that we continued the hearing for earlier this evening is numbered for in the year 2022 rather than 2021 it's uh the town's fiscal year 22 okay thank you our fiscal yes July 1st July 1st right to June 30th yeah and uh Andrew yeah um I know we don't have new business on here I just I was one let folks know that CPAC is planning on having their first meeting tomorrow uh which you know is earlier than in years past so I know I think it's probably not for uh another month or something before we've determined those committee assignments but I just wanted to let folks know that we're starting a little bit earlier uh I was planning on attending tomorrow um but um I don't know if other members of the board have interest in uh in filling that role for this uh this cycle or not I can't remember whether whether we consider these terms to be like coterminous with our own or whether we rotate them manually but uh just wanted to bring your attention I'm sure you're it Andrew um I'm happy to do it I enjoyed it I'm happy to do it but I I also don't you've been doing anybody else from having the opportunity right you've been doing a great job uh Doug yeah I was just gonna say I probably should not do a CPAC for a while there's plenty of CPAC going on in my household right now good to know there does an awesome job and Chris so I just wanted to mention that along with election of officers you'll have a chance to shuffle your committee and liaison assignments if you wish to um so that's part of the election of officers so think about what you want to be doing uh as you're moving forward and if you like what you're doing you can say that loud and clear and I'm sure other people will be happy to let you keep doing it so yeah I know the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission we're meeting the Executive Committee is meeting tomorrow at four so I'll be at that and that we skipped a month or two so we'll see how that goes um do you have anything else Chris I don't okay we can adjourn at 645 wow that is a wow who said wow so good we should invite Nate to all of our meetings lucky time all right well everyone enjoy their evening thank you so much