Thu, Dec 06, 2007 11:04 AM
From:		Howard Siegel
To:		StockbridgeMA_BComm
Subject:	March, 13 2007

CONSERVATION COMMISSION
MINUTES OF MEETING
TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2007

PRESENT:	Sally Underwood-Miller, Stephen Shatz, George Shippey, John Hart
		Joseph DeGiorgis, Cathy Plakun

ABSENT:	Don Deno

Call Meeting to Order/Adopt Minutes – The Chairman called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m.  Member Shatz made a motion to adopt the Minutes as presented, seconded by member Shippey and all voted in favor.

Bruce Rubin, 29 Mahkeenac Terrace – NOI – Shannon Boomsma of White Engineering and Anthony Barnaba, the architect for the applicants, appeared to discuss the applicants’ proposal to raze the existing house and construct a new house within the same footprint, do associated site work and install a new dock.  S. Boomsma indicated on the plan the line depicting the existing wetland.  The house is on piers which will be replaced with a full foundation.  The house will be slab on grade.  The proposed house will have a patio towards the lake and a path to the front door constructed of pervious materials.  A path to the existing stairs to the water, proposed to be reconstructed in the same footprint, will also be pervious.  A few trees near the house will need to be taken down to accommodate grading.  They will construct a driveway, also of pervious materials, on the southwest side of a garage.  They will recreate on site the wetlands currently existing the house, driveway and path area.  The wetland disturbance is 4,700 ft.  This replication area will be planted with shrubs and screening trees.  They will need to alter portions of the remaining wetlands for site grading which, in most situations, is a lowering of the grades slightly.  These areas will be replanted with native wetland species.  The sewer pipe for the property will pump out back and will pump out to the street.  Abutter Jerry Sugar stated that he feels the property is a danger risk.  The Commission would like their consultant Terry Eucker to look at the plan at the applicants’ expense.  The outside of the house will be of natural coloring.  A. Barnaba will do a drawing of the trees that will be muted by the lake.  The Chairman read into record a letter received from abutter Martin Messinger.  A site visit was scheduled for Tuesday, March 20, 2007 at 5:30 p.m.  Atty. David Hellman appeared from a meeting with the Planning Board and requested an extension of the hearing to April 10, 2007, as there will not be a quorum for the regularly scheduled meeting on March 27, 2007. 

Sherwood Gorbach, 23 Mahkeenac Terrace – NOI – Marc Volk of Foresight Land Services appeared representing the applicant who proposes to put on a one-story addition and remodel the existing house including a bathroom and utility room.  In the light brown area on the plan shows a gravel driveway.  They will be taking away a stairway and there will be no increase in the deck.  There will be discharge from the artesian well.  The site is mostly all grass and will be put back into grass when the project is complete.  The existing house is on a shallow foundation.  Erosion control and plastic fencing and everything down below will be straw bales.  They will put in a foundation drain since they are proposing frost wall.  A site visit was scheduled for Tuesday, March 20, 2007 at 6:00 p.m.  Atty. Hellman requested an extension of the hearing to April 10, 2007.

Member Shatz made a motion to close the hearing for the Marin Alsop property at 40 Glendale Rd., seconded by member DeGiorgis and all voted in favor.

						Respectfully submitted,

						Denise A. Schneyer, Secretary