Planning Board
Town of Princeton, Mass. PLANNING BOARD Meeting
Minutes Aug. 18, 2021 7:30 PM -- Remote Participation provided
Present were: Chair John Mirick, Ian Catlow, Tom Sullivan, Rud Mason, and Ann Neuburg; alternate Corey Burnham-Howard. Alt. Lisa Drexhage was absent. Hwy. Supt. Ben Metcalf, Pat Brady and Doug Andrysick were present. Atty. Phil Silverman and Ryan Jundt attended online for Candid LLC.
7:30 PM Chair opened meeting; group voted all in favor to approve the minutes of August 4, 2021.
Pat Brady presented an ANR plan with the Form A and check for $200. to create two new lots and the remaining master lot on Old Brooks Station Road on the north side of the road abutting the Rutland town line. Wetlands account for almost half of each lot but upland is sufficient and frontage exceeds 225’ on all three. Board voted all in favor to endorse and five members signed Mylar and paper copies.
Doug Andrysick was in with an ANR plan, the Form A and check for $100. From the Mason Trust. Plan involved a lot line change on the town-owned lots at (appx.) 350 Hubbardston Road. The westernmost boundary will move eastward to avoid overlapping the driveway of the abutting lot owned by Mason Trust. The move does not impact the building lot’s required zoning dimensions. With Rud Mason recusing, remaining board plus Corey B.H. voted all in favor to endorse the plan and all five signed Mylar and paper copies.
Doug then asked the board to waive ANR fees for the open space parcels being presented by the Princeton Land Trust at the next meeting. With Land Trust members Tom S., Ian C. and John M. recusing, Ann N., Rud M. and Corey B.H. voted in favor to waive fees for P.L.T. submissions in next two months.
7:55 PM Site Plan Review - Ben M. presented plan for construction of a 3-sided salt/sand shed, 65’ x 80’, at the Highway Dept. at 110 East Princeton Road. He described a concrete block foundation with metal ribs supporting synthetic fabric, similar to a Quonset hut. He explained how contractor Clearspan Fabric Structures submitted low bid for the project at appx. $125,000. Final cost of over $126,000 will be covered by grant funding from DCR for “Snow & Ice Operations.” Group discussed road-treating materials used in town and new methods of pre-treating roads with brine. Ben explained that it will be constructed where the salt/sand pile was sited each winter, next to the salt barn, and it will have no plumbing, electricity or lighting.
8:10 PM Board voted all in favor to approve the site plan as submitted and will sign a decision document at the next meeting.
Representatives for Candid LLC were in by remote participation to discuss an outdoor cannabis grow facility on an 18.5 acre parcel owned by Gary Griffin off Old Colony Road abutting the Hubbardston town line. Atty. Phil Silverman explained his company as having much experience doing this in Michigan. A Host Community Agreement negotiated with the Selectboard will be underway, and a Community Outreach (public informational) Meeting is scheduled remotely on Thursday night. He and Ryan Jundt answered questions from the board about revenue from host fees, security, planting, growing and harvesting procedures, potential odors, the wooded buffer, driveway access, and the absence of chemicals in the grow process.
The board agreed to ask the Selectboard that a site plan review be included in the H.C.A.
9:05 PM. Adjourned
Respectfully submitted: Marie Auger, land use coordinator
Referenced documents: Site Plan materials for Hwy. Dept. salt shed; Materials for two ANR plans
Next meeting: Sept. 1, 2021