The Marion Planning Board met on Monday for a Continued Public Hearing on the proposed adoption of stormwater-management regulations to the Stormwater Management Bylaw and amending Subdivision Regulations §300-4.6.
Due to some lighting issues in the Police Station’s conference room, Chair Andrew Daniel explained the meeting would be conducted nearly in the dark, with illumination from the hallway and the projector. This hearing had been continued from before the holidays at the Planning Board’s December 15 meeting.
For their first major change, the board discussed and added a stipulation that would require inspection reports due to the Department of Public Works be required by end of year, or December 31. This would simplify the process and make it easier to remember for both the Planning Board and DPW. Daniel also recommended they follow suit with other towns where they put the fee schedule into their regulations, but said they would need a Public Hearing in order to make this change, as any alteration or approval of the fee schedule requires a hearing.
The chair spoke on the eminent departure of Town Clerk Elizabeth “Lissa” Magauran, mentioning the town will have a new clerk “soon.”
The board worked to make wording across the amendment uniform and consistent across, again spending much of the meeting clarifying grammatical discrepancies as they did at last month’s meeting.
Daniel made a motion to approve of the changes made at this meeting, although discussion on the amendment itself will continue at future meetings. The chair also repeatedly thanked Senior Administrative Assistant Olivia Prior for her work on facilitating many of the changes made in the amendment.
The next meeting of the Marion Planning Board is scheduled for Tuesday, January 20 at 7:00 pm. A location has not yet been set, as the Police Department’s conference room will be taken by the Select Board at that time.
Marion Planning Board
By Sam Bishop