The Mattapoisett Conservation Commission on March 8 dispensed with a number of continued public hearings from prior meetings and immediately continued several others at the applicants’ request.
Alan Loomis of McKenzie Engineering Group, Inc. returned for a Notice of Intent on behalf of his client, Armand Cortellesso/Brandt Point Road Builders, LLC, to construct a single-family house with associated grading and infrastructure within the 100-foot buffer to bordering vegetated wetlands at Lot 16 Nantucket Drive.
Since the prior meeting, the conservation agent identified some minor issues that needed addressing. The commission asked Loomis to rectify some signage that was facing the wrong way, redo some of the wetland flags, sort out a failing siltation fence, and apply some siltation socks at a nearby catch basin.
“That’s very reasonable,” commented Mr. Loomis.
With no further questions or comments from the commission or the public, the commission approved the application and issued an Order of Conditions.
David Davignon of Schneider, Davignon & Leone, Inc. returned for a continued public hearing for a NOI on behalf of his client, William Saunders, 50 County Road, the location of Saunders-Dwyer Home for Funerals, to remove and replace a parking lot and stormwater management system.
During the last meeting, abutters’ concerns prompted Davignon to integrate some screening along the southwestern property line and submit an operational maintenance plan to plant and maintain 12 6-foot green giant arborvitaes spaced 6 feet apart.
The commission approved the application and issued an Order of Conditions.
Davignon was also present for the continued public hearing for a NOI filed by Matthew Considina and Alex Monreal, 29 North Street, for proposed landscaping improvements, tree removal, a 12-inch earth berm installation to contain stormwater runoff, cedar posts with signs for permanent markers at each wetland flag, and a groundwater recharge basin upgradient of the earth berm.
Neither the commission nor any abutters had any questions or comments, so the commission swiftly approved the application and issued an Order of Conditions with an additional condition of an on-site, pre-construction meeting before commencing the work.
Dan Wells represented his client, Aaron Halimi, in a continued Abbreviated Notice of Resource Area Delineation public hearing for wetland line verification at 0 Route 195, North of 0 Fairhaven Line North, owned by Gerald Randall.
Wells said three Fairhaven abutters had been duly served notification of the public hearing since the last meeting, and no one from the public appeared that evening to speak on the project.
The commission selected Ecosystem Solutions, Inc. as its peer-review consultant and continued the public hearing until March 22.
Before adjourning, the commission approved a Request for a Certificate of Compliance for Christian McCullough, 12 Oliver Street, after positive feedback from the building commissioner and the conservation agent confirming that the project was built according to the plan and no surrounding wetlands were disturbed in the process.
The following public hearings were immediately continued until March 22: NOI, Randall Lane Solar, LLC, for a solar array at 29 Randall Lane; and NOI for Alexander Bauer, 7 Nashawena Road, to construct a single-family house with rear deck and concrete slab beneath the house to direct stormwater to the rear of the lot.
The Request for a Certificate of Compliance for The Preserve at Bay Club, LLC was immediately continued until March 22.
The next meeting of the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission will be held on Monday, March 22, at 6:30 pm.
Mattapoisett Conservation Commission
By Jean Perry