Town Hall

7 pm

Roll Call: Appointment of alternates if needed.

Minutes: Review minutes of March 2022 meeting. 

New Business:

Possibly Variance or Expansion of a Non-Conforming Use: Elizabeth Roos, 14 Middle Street, Article V D-2, Tax Map 20, Lot 77, Residential B. Ms. Roos would like to change and slightly enlarge her deck on west side of the house. The door to the deck is the second egress from the house. The door is even with the deck and gets frozen shut in the winter. The plan is to drop the deck down one step. Request for a Public Hearing. This has been postponed until April.

Signage: US Cellular, 48 North Meadow Access Road. Article IV, D-6, Tax Map 12, Lot 55-13A, Commercial District. Owner of building is Blackmer Holdings LLC. New sign company called. April or May meeting. Evelyn Negron contact.

Special Exception in a rural/ag district: Tim Latham is planning to purchase that property on March Hill Rd that we almost did a special exception for a while back. Article Vlll, C, Tax Map 11, Lot 53, 455 March Hill Road. He is planning to attend our meeting to ask for a special exception so he can use that property for his electrical business. He also plans to attend the next planning board meeting to ask for a hearing to get the recommendation the ZBA will need. If all goes well he will have his PB hearing May 10, and we will have our hearing at our May meeting on the 18th.

Old Business:

Clarion article for April. What is a Variance? Pauline Barnes.

Applications on website – Expansion of Non-Conforming Use, Bylaws, Special Exceptions, etc. Working on this.

Special Exception in a rural/ag district:

Copies of Zoning Map from Antioch. Don Sellarole.

Bruce Blanchette, Signage at 8 Prospect Hill Road, Article IV D-4, Tax Map 19, Lot 70,  Residential A.  

Signs shall be permitted no larger than six (6) square feet in the Residential District. Free-standing signs shall be located no closer than ten (10) feet from a front, side or rear lot line. A free-standing sign shall not exceed ten (10) feet in height.

Next meeting May 18, 2022.