 I'll go ahead and call this meeting of the Arlington Zoning Board of Appeals to order. My name is Christian Klein. I'm the Chair of the Arlington Zoning Board of Appeals. Today is Tuesday, March 30th, 2021. Lights confirmed members and anticipated officials are present. Members of the Zoning Board of Appeals, Roger Dupont. Here. Patrick Hanlon. Here. Kevin Mills. Here. Erin Ford. Here. Stephen Revlax. It's not a work. Here. Fantastic. Officials from the town, Rick Valerelli. Here. Vin Lee. Here. And we're being joined this evening by Doug Hine, town council. Here. And then I believe that we, Greg Lucas is here from Bayer Group. Here. And I do not believe there's anyone appearing on behalf of the applicants. So. This is a quick introduction to the remote meeting and then explain what's going to happen this evening. This open meeting of the Arlington Zoning Board of Appeals is being conducted remotely consistent with Governor Baker's executive order of March 12th, 2020. The order suspends the requirement of the open meeting law to have all meetings in a publicly accessible physical location. Further, all members of public bodies are allowed and encouraged to participate remotely. Public bodies may meet remotely so long as reasonable public access is afforded so the public can follow along with the deliberations of the meeting. An opportunity for public participation will be provided during the public comment period during each public hearing. For this meeting, the Arlington Zoning Board of Appeals has convened a video conference via the Zoom app with online and telephone access that's listed on the agenda posted to the town's website, identifying how the public may join. This meeting is being recorded and it will be broadcast by ACMI. Please be aware that attendees are participating by a variety of means. Some attendees are participating by video conference. Other participants are participating by computer, audio or telephone. Accordingly, please be aware that other folks may be able to see you, your screen name or another identifier. Please take care not to share personal information. Anything you broadcast may be captured by the recording. We ask you to please maintain decorum during the meeting including just laying an appropriate background. All supporting materials that have been provided members of this body are available on the town's website unless otherwise noted, public is encouraged to follow along using the posted agenda. As chair or reserve, the right to take items out of order in the interest of promoting an orderly meeting. Okay. So the board received a request this morning from the applicant. They had a family emergency come up and they are unable to participate. They have requested that we continue tonight's hearing until the next scheduled date which is the eighth of April. We have, I have indicated to them that I believe the board would be favorable of granting that that continuance but that we would also want to have an extension of the 180 day period because that schedule is set to expire on the ninth of April. They have agreed to a 14 day extension of that to Friday the 23rd of April. Both of, I have both of those in writing they were posted just within the last half hour to the agenda for tonight's hearing. So those are now publicly available. And so this evening, the sole thing that we are meeting to discuss is very specifically a motion to extend the 180 day period for public review then to vote to continue the hearing until the date certain of the 23rd, excuse me, to the date certain of the eighth of April. And then we will briefly discuss the upcoming hearing schedules that are currently in front of us. And then we will be adjourning. We will not be taking testimony this evening as it relates to this or any other matter. I do see that I have a hand raised. I will ask you, unless it relates very specifically to the question of whether the board should continue this hearing or not or whether or not we should extend the review period for this hearing that those are really the only things that are before us this evening. Those are the only things that will take direct public comment on. So with that in mind, Mr. Yerwitz, I see your hand is raised. Are you speaking specifically in regards to the continuance of the hearing or the extension of the hearing? Yes, I am. And my feeling is this. Yeah, I have your, sorry, may I have your name and address the record, please? Oh yeah, Sean, I'm sorry. John Yerwitz, 47 March Street, part of a little John. Pardon me, I have a short throw. My comment is this and it's extending times and all that. Tonight is, as I've been told, the GBA has all final powers of our group and our concerns and the town's concerns. This is a very important meeting for us in the neighborhood and it's a very important meeting for the applicant, engineers, architects, lawyers, all of that crowd can't all have the same family emergency. I'm a little bit skeptical as to why they're not here tonight to face questions, to give us answers because there would be a lot of questions regarding all the things. We want the ZBA to be there for us against the state. So I just wanted to put that on the record that I'm a bit disappointed, a lot disappointed that the applicant isn't here. Thank you. Thank you. You know, obviously the board is displaying a little bit of discretion in regards to the details of the request. Let me just assure you that the reason that the request was made is due to a death and a family of a person who's very important that they be at this hearing. And for that reason, they are unable to attend and we really cannot proceed without them. And so that is the reason that we have this request. So with that in mind, brings up the first vote we need to take this evening, which would be an extension of the 180 day period for public hearing by 14 days to Friday, April 23rd, 2021. I have a motion to that effect. I moved. Thank you, Mr. Hanlon. Is it a second? Second. Thank you, Mr. DuPont. Quickly going down the rolls. Mr. DuPont. Aye. Mr. Hanlon. Aye. Aye. Mr. O'Rourke. Aye. Mr. Ford. Aye. Mr. Revillac. Aye. And the chair votes aye. Brings us to our second vote. So the second is a continuance of this public hearing to a date certain that date will be Thursday, April 8th, 2021 at 6.30 p.m. May I have a motion to that effect? To moved. Thank you, Mr. Hanlon. Is it a second? Aye. Thank you, Mr. DuPont. I roll call vote on this as well. Mr. DuPont. Aye. Mr. Hanlon. Aye. Mr. Mills. Aye. Mr. O'Rourke. Aye. Mr. Ford. Aye. Mr. Revillac. Aye. The chair votes aye. So we are continued on Thorndike Place until Thursday, April 8th, 2021 at 6.30 p.m. It was a request from Mr. DuPont to sort of review the schedule that we have currently moving forward. So the next schedule, the only scheduled hearing we have currently on Thorndike Place now is the Thursday, April 8th hearing date. We will once, we'll need to coordinate with the applicant to determine additional dates beyond that time and work that out with the schedule both for the applicant and for Mr. Haverty as well. And then quickly going to the town's calendar. So we do have dates scheduled for 1165 Par Mass Ave. So the current date, so the next date we have scheduled for that is Tuesday, April 13th at 7.30 p.m. And that is currently the only date we have scheduled fixed with them. So we will need to assign additional dates to proceed beyond that. Looking over to Novus. So additionally on the 13th, we also will be hearing continuances of three other hearings. One is 190, 192 Mystic Valley Parkway. One is for, check my notes. One is 4143 Fairmont. And the third one is 59 Mount Vernon. So those are that date as well as the continuation of 1165 R. And Mr. Valarelli, are there any other that have dates that have been set at beyond those dates? We have no dates set as of yet, Mr. Chairman. However, we are getting busy. I had four requests for residential special permits and one variance. Just got those. So those are ways out probably looking about 30 days from now. Okay. So I believe that's all the dates we have in our calendar moving forward. Mr. Chairman, just for clarity, I guess the 7th, the April 13th hearing is back at 730 again. Correct? That is correct. All the business that we had in our agenda for this evening. Back to my beautiful script. Mr. Chairman, a question. Name and address of the record please. Name Steve Moore. I live on Piedmont Street. Yes, Mr. Moore. My question was now that the schedule, the 180 day schedule is extended out to I believe you said it was April 23rd. Yes. Could you give me a brief description of the activities that will happen before and after the 23rd in terms of the board's decision making process? Certainly. Thank you for the question. So the 23rd is formally the end of the 180 day public hearing period. So during this period, we are allowed to take testimony. We are allowed to receive new information and get information, request information from the applicant, from our peer review consultants, from members of the town, and most importantly from members of the community to use towards reaching a decision. Once we have reached that date, the public hearing needs to close, but the board has 40 days in which to complete its deliberations on the final draft of the decision and vote on the decision. And so I don't know what that plus 40 date is, but that is the activity. So the board is planning to have at least two hearings between now and the 23rd. And then at that point, we would by statute need to close the public hearing and complete any deliberations that have not happened. On the drafting of the decision itself, but after we reached that date, we are no longer allowed to accept new information. Okay, Mr. Chairman, one question. You said two hearings between now and the 23rd, but only one of those hearings has to do with Thorndike Place, correct? So we need, well, we need to schedule two hearings with Thorndike Place. We have one that was on the calendar already. We will need to schedule an additional one that we have not had an opportunity to schedule as of this time. All right, I see your point. Okay, and when you say 40 days to come up with a final decision, is that 40 business days or 40 calendar days? Mr. Heim, do you have a, I believe it's 40 calendar days, is that correct? It's 40 calendar days. And I have to assume that the board will be working from the draft decision which has been circulated and new folks are still taking comment on. That is correct. Okay, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. And just to clarify, during that 40 day period, any meeting of the board that constitutes three or more individuals is a public hearing and so will be a posted public hearing that the public will be invited to attend. But because we are not allowed to take additional testimony at that time, we will not be inviting additional comment from the public during the 40 day period where we are deliberating the final draft. So with that, thank you all for your participation in tonight's meeting of the Arlington Zoning Board of Appeals. I appreciate everyone's patience throughout the meeting, especially wish to thank Mr. Valarelli, Mr. Lee and Mr. Heim for their assistance in preparing and hosting this meeting. Please note, the purpose of the board is reporting the meeting is to ensure the creation of an accurate record of the proceeding and it's our understanding that reporting made by ACMI will be available on demand at acmi.tv within the coming days. If anyone has comments or recommendations, please send them via email to zvaatown.arlington.ma.us. That email address is also listed on the ZVA website. To conclude tonight's meeting, I would ask for a motion to adjourn. Moved. Thank you, Mr. Hamlin, a second. I second. Thank you, Mr. Revolac. Quickly run down the rolls. Mr. Dupont. Hi. Mr. Hamlin. Mr. Mills. Hi. For your work. Hi. Mr. Ford. Hi. Revolac. Hi. Chair votes aye. The board is adjourned. Thank you all for your participation. I apologize to everyone who has set aside time this evening for this hearing and I'll give you that time back. Good night, guys. Good night, everybody. Good night, everyone. Bye, folks. Ciao.