March 4, 2026, Planning Board Regular Meeting - WEHI Transcript

03/11/2026 06:15:33 AM Page 117 to 120 of 136 30 of 54 sheets 117 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: I appreciate that.1 So what I'm going to do is, I'm going to2 poll the board. Okay. I'm going to poll the board.3 I'm going to ask each one of you to say, yes, give the4 application two months to come back, they have the list,5 Ms. McGovern will provided them a list of concerns we6 have. They will come back in two months at a meeting.7 Okay. And we'll go forward from there, unless they8 satisfy things earlier and they will notify the board.9 MS. McGOVERN: Okay. I need clarification.10 Concerns versus site plan issues that would have to be11 satisfied before final site plan. It would be -- what12 we're talking about is the tree plan, the sewer plan,13 these revisions that were required by the experts on14 these subjects you mentioned?15 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Yes.16 MS. McGOVERN: Okay.17 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Any additional things that18 could be done beforehand by the reports that were19 provided.20 MS. McGOVERN: Okay. Got it. When you say,21 two months, because there's a lot of people who get22 nervous.23 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Right.24 MS. McGOVERN: To preserve their notice, we25 118 can cary it to our next regular meeting, which is April1 15, like we did once before, where we carried it just2 for our -- and so let's talk about, then you carry it3 again to May, to the May regular meeting, we put it on4 the agenda and then we figure out a time in June where5 we'd advertise if it's going to be special meeting6 or we'll have it at the June regular meeting.7 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Yes.8 MS. McGOVERN: Okay. I just want that to be9 clear. For the applicant and for the opposition, the10 next two months, if the board decides to go that way,11 it'll be carrying it just to preserve notice.12 MR. AFRAN: Exactly like we have done.13 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Correct. Done previously.14 And the meeting where we come back will be in person.15 Okay. Good.16 There will be no comment, there will be no17 additional comments from the public at that meeting.18 MR. KLEIN: Is somebody going to write a19 letter with these things in it or are we going to speak20 it out and he's going to write it down.21 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Ms. McGovern.22 MR. KLEIN: Write a letter. Like you want23 to go over it now exactly --24 MS. McGOVERN: Okay. Yeah. Let's, you want25 119 the tree replacement plan, is that correct?1 MAYOR McCARTNEY: Yes.2 MS.

ern.22 MR. KLEIN: Write a letter. Like you want23 to go over it now exactly --24 MS. McGOVERN: Okay. Yeah. Let's, you want25 119 the tree replacement plan, is that correct?1 MAYOR McCARTNEY: Yes.2 MS. McGOVERN: I'm not going to write a3 letter, I'm am going to do it now so that everybody in4 the public hears it.5 MR. AFRAN: My only question is, did I hear6 the Chair say, that when we resume in June that there7 will be no comment from the public. That's an8 impossibility. There's are new elements that are being9 added back to the plan. You can't stop the objector or10 public.11 12 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Well, they're being13 satisfied. The only thing that's new is the potential14 additional roadway. Everything else are things that15 have been brought up that are being satisfied, correct?16 MR. AFRAN: Well, then I need to preserve17 our position. These are major elements that are things18 of a conditional approval.19 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: We're working on it. Give20 us a minute to talk this through.21 MS. McGOVERN: Okay. If this application22 were theoretically granted final -- preliminary and23 final, these items would be submitted to the board24 engineer and when they met the board engineers approval25 120 they'd be checked off as satisfied.1 The board here is going to be working with2 the engineer and if these items are checked off we'll3 get a report form, we're not going to hear testimony, as4 I understand it, but we'll get a report from the board5 engineer as to whether they satisfy those items. The6 only thing left open, as I understand it, would be this7 potential other exit/entrance roadway. I think that8 that that would have to have further discussion.9 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Yeah.10 MS. McGOVERN: Okay.11 MR. AFRAN: That certainly is a different12 issue or position. Just so I am clear, because there's13 a lot of back and forth on the issue. Many of these14 conditions as well, call for the sake of argument, are15 fundamental. Sewer capacity is fundamental on the field16 for them. So I don't think issues like that the board17 can say in June when we hear that report back there can18 be no public comment. So we don't think these can be19 conditions of approval because they're fundamental and20 once the proof that it can be done comes in the public21 has a right to comment.22 MS. McGOVERN: Okay. I'm going to say, why23 don't we see what they come back with and we'll play

re fundamental and20 once the proof that it can be done comes in the public21 has a right to comment.22 MS. McGOVERN: Okay. I'm going to say, why23 don't we see what they come back with and we'll play it24 by ear in terms what opposition there really is.25