Dale and Laura Briggs hope their boat docked at their 23 Dexter Road property will stop getting pushed around.
During the June 28 meeting of the Marion Conservation Commission, the Briggs’ Notice of Intent application was heard, the proposed solution being installation of boat-mooring piles.
Their representative, David Davignon of Schneider, Davignon & Leone, Inc., gave the commission a summary of backstory, including numerous filings. An Order of Conditions is open for construction of a single-family house, and the owners have certificates of compliance for a seawall, a pier jutting out from the seawall and a boardwalk from Dexter Road to the island.
The new application is for the installation of three 16-inch diameter piles on the south side. Davignon said they will align with existing piles on the north side. The reason they are needed, he explained, is because boat traffic does not slow down and creates waves, causing the owners’ boat to smash against the piles.
Davignon said he checked with the Waterways Department to see if it could be a minor project but was told a new filing was necessary.
The commissioners decided that they should wait for a comment regarding a nearby wildlife habitat, and the hearing was continued to July 12.
Great White Realty Trust, Frederick and Cindy Mock, was voted a Negative Box 2 and 3 Determination of Applicability to relocate a footpath on their property at 5 Moorings Road.
Brian Grady of G.A.F. Engineering said he is looking to bring the path inside the recorded easement. No change in grade, bark mulch when cleared, stabilized the path and revamping the lawn, will restore the existing path or it will grow back on its own.
Todd Hunter, trustee of the Eleanor L. Hunter 1990 Trust, was issued a Negative Box 2 Determination of Applicability for minor site grading and landscaping, trench and backfill for connection to a watermain and portion of the driveway at East Avenue.
Rick Charon from Charon Associates, Hunter’s representative, told the commission there is a flood zone that comes up from the cove.
The commission discussed apparent clearing and the installation of a shed at 882 Point Road that Conservation Commission Chairman Jeff Doubrava suggested should have filed a RDA. Commissioner Shaun Walsh agreed and mused that the owner may not have been aware that the land is subject to coastal-storm flowage.
Walsh suspected that such an application would yield a negative determination but thought Conservation Agent Doug Guey-Lee should write a letter to the owner, seeking permission to conduct a site inspection, in part to educate the owner as to the prescribed process.
The commission voted to grant a full Certificate of Compliance to Arthur Solomon for construction of an outdoor kitchen at his 538 Point Road home.
The commission voted to appoint Walsh as representative to the Stewards of Community Open Space.
Doubrava, the chairman of the Community Preservation Committee, sought the appointment of a new representative after he explained the mechanics of the CPC’s distribution of Community Preservation Act funding.
Commissioner Matt Schultz agreed to shadow Doubrava through the 2023 round of meetings on the premise that he would take over chairman’s duties in 2024.
Walsh thanked Doubrava for his work chairing the CPC, noting that it “funds a lot of things that probably would not get funded.”
The next meeting of the Marion Conservation Commission is scheduled for Wednesday, July 12, at 7:00 pm at the Police Station.
Marion Conservation Commission
By Mick Colageo