April 5 - Town of Falmouth

More documents

Recommendations

Info

[Applause.] about this: if that property is illegal, then the Town cannot assess them legally for what they’ve been assessing them for the past 84 years. So this should be a simple vote. And as a Planning Board member, we indefinitely postponed this in November because we were confused when Mr. DeWitt got up and spoke and Mr. Latimer spoke and they thought we should wait to fix this. But now I understand that we, as Town Members, don’t have to wait. This is the fix. It will fix everything and you won’t have to hear about this again. All those 230 members can sleep easy at night. We had several of them come to our Planning Board meeting and they were upset. They were purely upset because they lost the rights that they have as taxpayers. And I would advise everybody to please vote for this and pass this so those people have their rights back. Just like I was told, I’m a member of an elected board and so are you, please fix this for those taxpayers, thank you. THE MODERATOR: Okay, let’s go. Okay, anything new? The gentleman in the back? MR. MCGRATH: My name’s Mike McGrath, I’m a registered land surveyor, and I just want to assure Town Meeting that I have dealt with these situations many times. The majority have been in very high Tinkham Reporting (508) 759-9162 1- 62
value areas. In fact, Jeff Whitney, who was the Chairman of the Planning Board in 1959, when that amendment was written that explicitly prohibited two houses on one lot, he had four principal houses on his house at 43 Church Street, and I don’t think Jeff Whitney thought that they were illegal. So, I would urge you to pass the Planning Board’s and Zoning Board of Appeals’ recommendations because the overwhelming majority of the circumstances when I’ve run into this have been on Penzance, on Quissett Avenue, and only occasionally in the historical sections of the villages and I do not think that the speculative impacts of condominiumizing these units will ever happen. Thank you. Wilber? THE MODERATOR: Something new, Mr. Wilber? Mr. MR. WILBER: Judge Wilber, Precinct 8. I have some ambivalence about this bill. I was inclined to support it initially, but I respect Mr. DeWitt’s experience and opinions on this a great deal. He obviously is the person that is most knowledgeable about the process. I am inclined to support it for one reason. This is another one of these top-down decisions imposed on a Town that takes away more of our rights of self-governance. We’ve had unfunded mandates come down from the state. We’ve had the anti-snob zoning bylaw with the 40B snafus. These are all taking away from our primary right to self-govern. And this Tinkham Reporting (508) 759-9162 1- 63
Page 1 and 2:
Vol. One 165 pages COMMONWEALTH OF
Page 3 and 4:
26 Petition MGL Ch. 64G Room Occupa
Page 5 and 6:
Tashiro; in the second division wil
Page 7 and 8:
[Applause.] [Applause.] THE MODERAT
Page 9 and 10:
Tinkham Reporting (508) 759-9162 [A
Page 11 and 12: At this time, we’ll begin with a
Page 13 and 14: Article 16, to appropriate $1,925,0
Page 15 and 16: Article 11 is a hold. 12. Article 1
Page 17 and 18: [Applause.] Tinkham Reporting (508)
Page 19 and 20: holding this many meetings. They’
Page 21 and 22: project. The contractor is on sched
Page 23 and 24: order and will be installed also in
Page 25 and 26: MR. JOHNSON: That area includes the
Page 27 and 28: THE MODERATOR: Okay, any further qu
Page 29 and 30: through our financial predicament.
Page 31 and 32: strongly advises that the first app
Page 33 and 34: leaders make decisions that are rig
Page 35 and 36: THE MODERATOR: Well, the recommenda
Page 37 and 38: Next slide, please. This slide also
Page 39 and 40: But hopefully you’ll get an idea
Page 41 and 42: As a consequence, this amendment ne
Page 43 and 44: argument list, and the reason it’
Page 45 and 46: and accessory uses. This no longer
Page 47 and 48: I’m not opposed to protecting peo
Page 49 and 50: have been conscientious are already
Page 51 and 52: Why do you think we’re here? Why
Page 53 and 54: in this town. We are perhaps going
Page 55 and 56: to talk over me when I’m renderin
Page 57 and 58: have every right to override that o
Page 59 and 60: There are 230 folks that are going
Page 61: there, accessible, find-able? To al
Page 65 and 66: [Laughter.] cottages that go with m
Page 67 and 68: Aye. Tinkham Reporting (508) 759-91
Page 69 and 70: use. The property across the street
Page 71 and 72: clinic, business offices and profes
Page 73 and 74: proposition for the 151 corridor is
Page 75 and 76: MS. MOYNIHAN: Correct. THE MODERATO
Page 77 and 78: do not think it is wise for this To
Page 79 and 80: property. Nobody in this room wants
Page 81 and 82: able to hire somebody to assist the
Page 83 and 84: [Whereupon, a recess was taken.] [P
Page 85 and 86: y line item. It won’t be a blanke
Page 87 and 88: ecession is literally changing the
Page 89 and 90: we saw for the previous year. That
Page 91 and 92: services and expenses. We saw $2.1
Page 93 and 94: structural deficit issues that we f
Page 95 and 96: We have a set of detailed recommend
Page 97 and 98: piece, you see how much it’s grow
Page 99 and 100: very successful because all the new
Page 101 and 102: up. And these are costs, as you can
Page 103 and 104: these common characteristics of the
Page 105 and 106: Tinkham Reporting (508) 759-9162 1-
Page 107 and 108: we’re going to do to the exclusio
Page 109 and 110: question on 46, Special Counsel. Th
Page 111 and 112: ox and we keep putting, under the l
Page 113 and 114:
Tinkham Reporting (508) 759-9162 1-
Page 115 and 116:
do we have any of these programs, h
Page 117 and 118:
ecause the HMO program contains a g
Page 119 and 120:
Tinkham Reporting (508) 759-9162 1-
Page 121 and 122:
Quinn Bill. THE MODERATOR: That’s
Page 123 and 124:
number 318, Fiscal Year ‘10, 80,0
Page 125 and 126:
interest payments. It would be I th
Page 127 and 128:
BARNSTABLE, SS C E R T I F I C A T
show all

April 5 - Town of Falmouth

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?