Present: Board members: Chair Jeff Miller, Vice-Chair Dennis Marcom, Clerk Jason Perron, Jeff Harrington, Joanna Andros, Select Board Representative Steve Dalessio, Trevor MacLachlan.

Conservation Commission members: Wendy Grossman and Peter Palmiotto.

Facilitator: Carol Ogilvie, planner with Southwest Regional Planning Commission.

Topic: Update Natural Features chapter of Walpole’s Master Plan. 

The meeting began at 7 pm. Ms. Ogilvie had previously updated and edited the document and it had been sent to the Planning Board and two Conservation Commission members. She said the first 17 pages of the document were an inventory of Walpole resources. It includes information on topography, slopes and development capability, soils (sand and farmland), water resources (aquifers, watersheds, watercourses, water bodies) construction materials, conservation and preservation techniques. Maps, drafted by Henry Underwood at SWRP,  accompanied each main topic. He also provided the group with two maps on Wildlife Action Plans.

With the exception of three pages at the end of the document that was devoted to a list of current or recommended protected lands, the rest was a list of goals and objectives that were made when the document was first drafted and approved in 1998. Many of these goals will be continued, some were obsolete (management plan for Connecticut River as a new plan goes into effect) and several have been adopted (road agent approval for driveways) and have now become part of the site plan or subdivision regulations that are required in the current application. 

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 7 pm in the basement conference room.

Respectfully submitted,

Marilou Blaine

WPB Recording Secretary

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