Those in attendance: C. Leininger, P. Paquette, R. Rada, R. Robinson, C. Thompson, D. Trudeau,
J. Winslow, D. Asche, D. Burbidge
Excused Absences: M. Rebelowski
Action
Items:
1)
Debby to report
names of roadside clean-up volunteers to Arlene for inclusion on web-site
article.
2)
All to review NCNA
alternate accounting software appropriate for 501c3’s from the web-site
ncna.org.
3)
Carrilu to seek
cost estimates for review of commercial and residential zoning text by land use
attorney Vancil.
The meeting was called to order by Chair, Ron Rada at 6:34PM. Minutes of the previous meeting were approved as written.
Treasurer’s report: Debby reported that no new mail had arrived since our last
meeting. Also our Treasury balance is $1069.49.
Related Foundation Programs’ status/issues:
*Crime Prevention/Safety group: This group is busy with actions on the Plan
revisions and continues to meet weekly.
*MCA:
The clean-up held on 5/19 deemed a big success with 12 volunteers collecting 28
bags of roadside trash along
The Manchester Festival will be held
on Saturday August 4th.
The Memorial Day event was held at
the Vet’s Garden on 5/28 at 3PM with participation by the VFW, Naval Jr ROTC, Combat
Vets Intl., FOML, and MCA along with about 50 citizens.
*Historical Society: See web-site for current information.
*
MCC Sub-committee status/issues:
*Sewers sub-committee: LID#9 will be re-established with 11 fewer
properties which chose to be included in LID#8.
A new public meeting will be held for those who will be included in #9
(water-side residents along
*Downtown Design: This committee continues
work on the commercial district design standard and zoning, which will be
incorporated into the revised Plan. In
last week’s meeting lot aggregation was the topic at hand. It was recommended that the minimum size lot
allowable on lots served by sewer should be 8710 Ft² and lots on septic must be
at least ¼ acre. Non-conforming lots, if
still in the same ownership as of the date of the original plan, are buildable.
On June 12, the County will host a
meeting at the Library and ask for preferences on three options for downtown
zoning based on six visual representations; there will also be a table at the
Salmon Bake on June 17th for the same purpose. John Winslow will send a reminder on the June
12 meeting to all those on MCC distribution lists.
*
*Partnership with agencies: No recent activity.
*Recreational Venues:
No recent activity.
*Village Commons: Ron Rada, Ron Robinson and John Winslow will be organizing a revival
of the group to focus on the effort as a MCC 2007 goal.
Old Business:
All
were tasked to review NCNA alternate accounting software appropriate for
501c3’s from the web-site ncna.org.
We
reviewed where we stood on current downtown development and it was noted that
the interim zoning code is good through November when the revised Plan language
is to be proposed to the Commissioners.
Any moratorium is therefore moot.
It was also mentioned that virtually all of the proposed draft changes
to the Plan have been completed with the exception being the zoning
section. It was asked whether the
proposed changes would affect the current structure of the MCC and it was
reported that that would be very likely and the MCC bylaws would likely change.
Next
we discussed the proposed review of Plan language by land use attorney, Mr.
Vancil. There was concern about the
proposal offered by Vancil being rather expensive and how it would be
funded. This is currently an idea
proposed by the Plan review sub-committee on zoning who want to be sure that
language put into the plan have enforcement “teeth”. Debby T said that Mr. Vancil stated that he
thought that as long as the scope of his work was limited to the review of
the text of the design standards or subarea plan language, this would not
constitute lobbying." Donations to the effort will be accepted
and funding by the MCC treasury will be discussed at the next regular MCC
meeting. Carrilu will seek individual
estimates from Vancil for review of the downtown design standards and the
residential zoning standards.
New Business:
The agenda for our next MCC meeting will include
a review by representatives from each area of responsibility for the Plan
revisions; Carrilu will contact appropriate speakers from each.
There being no further business, Chairman Rada adjourned the meeting at 7:31 PM.
Our next regular meeting will be Tuesday June 26th at
6:30-8:30PM in the Manchester Library and the next Executive Board meeting will
be Thursday July 5th at 6:30PM in the Library.
Respectfully
submitted,
John
Winslow, Member-at-large; Manchester Community Council