Minutes
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1 July 20, 2022 Meeting Minutes Via Zoom Town Staff members in attendance: Karen Tracy, Stephen Corbett, Arthur Hickey, Tony Marino Meeting called to order at 6:36. Dock Floats With Harbormaster: Unpermitted floating docks, nuisance and safety issue. Need dock inventory, homeowners co-install, lots of regulations and permitting regulations. Previous harbormaster wanted to regulate floating docks. Need plan to tackle unpermitted floating docks. Other issue is piers. Brian Corbett wants town order to limit piers, need regulations. Arthur: floating docks extend too far and there are no safety lights. Approximately 30 floating docks, people use them to catch boats. Alert homeowners that floats can’t be stored on the beach. In the winter many floats block walking on the beach. Want informational pamphlet for float owners. Harbormaster will get list of floating docks and send information to owner to make sure they are properly installed. Process: 2 permits for floating dock = CC and Harbormaster Inventory of docks, owner and details. 10A permits, each float should get a sticker. Brian will make a list of floats. Floats will be requested to have an RDA and billing. Piers and limiting them will be a future discussion. Town Manager will research process in other towns (Gloucester, Hull, etc.) 165 Court Road: Legal counsel sent response, engineer sent, filter information. Send comments from Brian to Crowley’s engineers. Find out where run off is going from. Compile all recent 165 Court Road documents and resend. Storm damage retention. Need to show pervious surface compared to non previous percentage. Volume of Hydrolic fluid. Will send all 165 Court Road materials out. Compile all questions and send back out. 138 Tafts: Karen wants site walk. Karen T. Winn, Chairperson Stephen Machcinski Brian Corbett Tracy Machcinski Rachel Kelly, Conservation Agent TOWN HALL WINTHROP, MA 02152-3156 Telephone (617) 846-1852 E-mail: conservation@town.winthrop.ma.us Web: www.town.winthrop.ma.us 2 21 Court Road: Motion to close by Tracy. Brian seconds. All in favor. A motion to adjourn was made by Brian Corbett, it was seconded by Stephen Corbett.