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ADAMS - In conformance with Adams Zoning Bylaws and requirement of MGL c. 40A, the following public hearing will be held at the Town Hall, 8 Park Street, Adams, MA on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 7:00 P.M. Application of:
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Jeffrey & Eva Horton for property they own at 1 Country Club Extension, requesting a Variance under §125-3 (B) (2), Adams Zoning Bylaw, for a side lot line from twenty (20) feet to 12' 6" and a front yard setback from thirty (30) feet to 18' 6" to build an 8' x 24' porch to replace the existing porch in an R-3 District.
- Christopher Pompi for property he owns at 1 Kingsmont Lane, requesting a Variance under §125-3 (B) (2), Adams Zoning Bylaw, for a front yard setback from twenty (20) feet to eight (8) feet and a rear yard setback from twenty (20) feet to six (6) feet to place a 10' x 12' storage shed in an R-2/R-3 District.
- Gayle Andrews for property she owns at 8 Victory Street, requesting an administrative appeal of the Building Inspector's decision with regards to grandfathering the housing of livestock (chickens) on her property in an R-4 District.
Michael Mach, Chairman.
01/31/12, 02/07/12
GREAT BARRINGTON - Benedict Pond Dam Repair
The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation is proposing maintenance work to the dam face at Benedict Pond. The dam is in a state of disrepair and action is required to ensure the dam functions as designed. The work includes the discharge of dredged or fill material for maintenance repairs to the 550 foot long face ofthe dam along the shore ofthe pond. This work would require about 4,300 square feet of temporary fill consisting of compact gravel for a berm coffer dam that would be constructed in the pond for dewatering the work areas. Approximately 1,500 square feet of pond bottom would be excavated along the face of the dam to expose areas for maintenance work then backfilled with compact gravel. About 1,600 square feet of gravel would be temporarily placed on the pond bottom to support heavy machinery. All temporary fill material would be removed and bottom contours restored following construction activities. The pond water surface would be partially drawn about 4 feet to allow work areas to dewater. Stream flow to Stony Brook would be maintained with a bypass pipe.
Mitigation of temporary impacts to water quality would include a temporary berm coffer dam, and water flow control, bypassing the pond outflow around the work areas during construction. The project will use turbidity curtains and use of best management practices for control of sedimentation, erosion, and turbidity impacts.
These same practices will limit the spread of invasive species.
The work is described on plans entitled "BENEDICT POND DAM REHABILITATION
PROJECT GREAT BARRINGTON, MA," on 4 sheets, and dated "Dec. 2011."
LEE - NOTICE OF ACTIVITY AND
USE LIMITATION
Lee Travel Plaza
(formerly Diesel Dan's)
Lee, Massachusetts
RTN 1-11751
A release of oil and/or hazardous materials has occurred at this location, which is a disposal site as defined by M.G.L. c. 21E, § 2 and the Massachusetts Contingency Plan, 310 CMR 40.0000. On December 2, 2011, O'Reilly, Talbot & Okun Associates, Inc. recorded with the Berkshire County Registry of Deeds a First Amendment to Notice of Activity and Use Limitation on portions of the referenced disposal site, pursuant to 310 CMR 40.1070 through 40.1080.
The First Amendment to Notice of Activity and Use Limitation will limit the following site activities and uses on portions of the above property:
Use as a residence, school or daycare facility
Any activity, such as excavation, which may disturb petroleum contaminated soil located from 1 to 15 feet below ground surface within the AUL area.
Any person interested in obtaining additional information about the Notice of Activity and Use Limitation may contact: Kevin O'Reilly of O'Reilly, Talbot & Okun Associates, Inc. at 293 Bridge Street, Springfield MA, 01103. Phone No. 413-788-6222.
The First Amendment to Notice of Activity and Use Limitation and the disposal site file can be reviewed at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection Western Regional Office, 436 Dwight Street, Springfield, MA, 413-784-1100.
01/02/12
NORTH ADAMS - PUBLIC HEARING Tuesday February 14th at 6:30pm CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS
January 24, 2012
To: North Adams City Council #2
Re: Solar Power
Dear Honorable Members:
This is a very exciting time for the City of North Adams as we are on the cusp of signing Power Purchase and Site Lease Agreements regarding our Solar Project.
We have taken several months under the guidance of Robert Patterson our energy consultant and City Solicitor DeRosa to fine tune the agreements with Blue Wave Capital. As you may recall, the project includes arrays at the Land Fill, Airport, former waste Treatment Plant and Drury High School and has the potential when completed, to provide more than 4 megawatts of power. Mr. Patterson along with Ross Vivori and Mike Nuvallie have worked very hard with John DeVillars and Eric Graber-Lopez from Blue Wave to put together a package that has the potential to save the City $11,000,000 in electricity costs over the next 20 years.
I have invited Mr. DeVillars and Mr. Graber-Lopez to make a presentation at a Joint Public Hearing of the City Council, Planning Board, Zoning Board and Airport Commission at the Council meeting of February 14. Additionally, Mr. Vivori, Mr. Nuvallie and Attorney DeRosa will be on hand to help with any questions Council or board and commission members may have. This will also be a wonderful opportunity for the public to see this project as it continues to move forward. I am hoping to have an informational packet in advance with your papers for that meeting.
IN CITY COUNCIL
January 24, 2012
VOTED: to set the Public Hearing,
5 yeas, four nays.
Michael C. Bloom, President
Marilyn Gomeau, Clerk
Posted January 28, 2012
01/28/12
NORTH ADAMS - NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR TIER I PERMIT EXTENSION
LAVALLEY OIL BULK
STORAGE FACILITY
HODGES CROSS ROAD AND
SOUTH STATE STREET
RELEASE TRACKING
NUMBER 1-15846
TIER IC PERMIT NUMBER 92856
A release of oil and/or hazardous materials has occurred at this location, which is a disposal site as defined by M.G.L. c. 21E, § 2 and the Massachusetts Contingency Plan, 310 CMR 40.0000. On October 3, 2006, the Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) issued a Tier IC Permit for Comprehensive Response Actions at the site. On December 14, 2011, LaValley Oil Company, Inc. filed an Application for a Tier 1 Permit Extension with MassDEP pursuant to 310 CMR 40.0703 and 40.0706. This Application will seek to extend the permit for this site from December 14, 2011 to December 14, 2014 based upon the following rationale:
to provide additional time to gain
access to an abutting property, and
to provide additional time to conduct assessment and remediation work at the disposal site.
Anyone interested in reviewing the Application for a Tier I Permit Extension should contact LaValley Oil Company, Inc., Mr. Paul Modena, 116 Eagle Street, North Adams, MA, 01247, 413-663-7506to request a copy of the Application. Written comments related to this Application must be submitted within 20 days of the publication of this notice to: (1) MassDEP, 436 Dwight Street, Springfield, MA 01103 by mail or by hand delivery during normal business hours; and (2) LaValley Oil Company, Inc., Mr. Paul Modena, 116 Eagle Street, North Adams, MA, 01247. Failure to provide written comments as set forth herein may affect your right, if any, to challenge MassDEP's permit decision.
The Application and the disposal site file can be reviewed at MassDEP, 436 Dwight Street, Springfield, MA 01103, 413-784-1100. Additional public involvement opportunities are available under 310 CMR 40.1403(9) and 310 CMR 40.1404.
01/10/12
OTIS - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION/WATERWAYS LICENSE APPLICATION #X241626 (ROW PIER)
NOTIFICATION DATE; 1-16-2012
Public notice is hereby given of the application by TESBLOA to construct a pier between lot numbers 21 & 28 off Brookman Dr., Otis, Ma. at Otis Reservior. The Department will consider all written comments on this waterways application received by within 30 days subsequent to the Notification Date. Failure of any aggrieved person or group of ten citizens or more to submit written comments to the Waterways Regulation Program by the Public Comments Deadline will result in the waiver of any right to an adjudicatory hearing in accordance with 310 CMR 9.13(4)(C).
Additional information regardiing this application may be obtained by contacting the Waterways Regulation Program at (617)-292-5500. Project plans and documents are on file with the Waterways Program for public viewing by appointment only, at the Waterways at the address below: DEP, 436 Dwight St., Spfld., Ma. 01103.
01/16/12
PITTSFIELD - NOTICE OF GRANT OF
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTRICTION
AND EASEMENT
EPA SITE NAME: GE-Pittsfield/Housatonic River Site
DEP Site Name: GE Pittsfield Disposal Sites
DEP Disposal Site No. GECD140
SITE LOCATION: Tax Parcels
Nos. J10-9-2 and J10-10-103
(known collectively as
East Street Area 2-North)
Pittsfield, MA 01201
In accordance with the requirements set forth in 310 C.M.R. 40.1403(7), as amended, and a Consent Decree executed by the General Electric Company ("GE"), the United States, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and other parties, and entered by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts on October 27, 2000 in United States et al. v. General Electric Company (Civil Action No. 99-30225-MAP et seq.), notice is hereby given that a Grant of Environmental Restriction and Easement on portions of the above disposal site, known as East Street Area 2-North, located at GE's facility in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (which portions are referred to herein collectively as the "Property"), has been recorded with the Berkshire Middle District Registry of Deeds on December 21, 2011. This Grant of Environmental Restriction and Easement (the "Grant") was executed by GE (the "Grantor") and accepted by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (the "Grantee").
The Grant will limit the following site activities and uses on the above Property, except as otherwise provided in the Grant:
A. residential activity or use;
B. day care and educational (for children under eighteen (18) years of age) activity or use;
C. community center (for children under eighteen (18) years of age) activity or use;
D. recreational activity or use;
E. agricultural activity or use;
F. extraction, consumption, or utilization of groundwater underlying the Property, including without limitation, extraction for potable, industrial, irrigation, or agricultural use;
G. excavation, digging, drilling, or other intrusive activity into or disturbance of the surface of the ground and/or the underlying soil (with various exceptions set forth in the Grant); and
H. any activity or use that would interfere with, or would be reasonably likely to interfere with, the implementation, operation, or maintenance of any aspect or component of the Response Actions already constructed or under construction, or of which Grantor has notice, including, without limitation, interference with any groundwater contaminant containment measures or barriers situated within the Groundwater Response Action Component Area (if any), or any groundwater monitoring wells or wells utilized for the recovery of groundwater or non-aqueous-phase liquid from the subsurface, or any activity that would exceed the bearing load of, or pierce, any barrier situated within the Building Demolition Barrier Area (all capitalized terms as defined in the Grant).
GE intends in the near future to convey the Property to the Pittsfield Economic Development Authority ("PEDA"), at which time PEDA will become the Grantor under the Grant.
Any person interested in obtaining additional information regarding the Grant or in reviewing the Grant may contact the following: Michael T. Carroll, Manager, Pittsfield Remediation Programs, General Electric Company, Corporate Environmental Programs, 159 Plastics Avenue, Pittsfield, MA 01201, at (413) 448-5902. The disposal site file may be reviewed at the Berkshire Athenaeum, 1 Wendell Avenue, Pittsfield, MA 01201.
01/12/12
WILLIAMSTOWN - The Planning Board will hold a public hearing on Tuesday February 14th, 2012 at 7 p.m. in the Municipal Building, 31 North Street, Williamstown, in accordance with Massachusetts General Law Chapter 40A §5, to receive public comment on the following proposals to amend the Williamstown Zoning Bylaw:
- ARTICLE 1: To see if the Town will vote to amend the Williamstown Zoning By-Laws, §70-7.1.D & §70-3.3(A)(1), by removing the existing provisions regarding conversion of a one family home to a two family home and replacing it with provisions to allow the conversion a one family home to a two family home and construction of a detached second dwelling unit on a single building lot.
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ARTICLE 2: To see if the Town will vote to amend the Williamstown Zoning By-Laws, §70-7.3 & §70-3.3(B) to allow weddings and similar celebration events to be held on farms as an accessory use as a matter of right, or by special permit if certain conditions are not met.
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ARTICLE 3: To see if the Town will vote to amend the Williamstown Zoning By-Laws, §70-7.3 & §70-3.3(B) to allow small concert events to be held on farms as an accessory use as a matter of right, or by special permit if certain conditions are not met.
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ARTICLE 4: To see if the Town will vote to amend the Williamstown Zoning By-Laws,§ 70-3.3A (4) Institutional Uses, so that the use "Dance or music studio" is amended to "Creative or physical arts studios and classes, including without limitation, use for dance, music, exercise, yoga or art classes."
The above draft bylaw amendments are available for review in the Department of Inspection Services between the hours of 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, Monday - Friday
Patrick Dunlavey, Chairman,
Williamstown Planning Board.
01/31/12 Transcript,
02/09/12 Advocate
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