Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Live reporting - Land easement

Mike D'Angelo providing an update on the easement that the Town Council started action on in their meeting 8/20. This is too clear up title search and clean up the records to allow for the development to the senior assisted living facility being planned for Eaton Place.

The electric easement is on the left side about 40 foot before the end of Panther Way. Across the way, there is a drainage easement required.

On the agenda tonight for discussion only. Action will come in a future meeting.

Cora:
Clarification on location of easement, does it interfere with the new drop off?

Mike:
No.

Cora:
Would this intefere with any of our future plans for renovations to the high school.

Mike:
Not really. Should be far enough away. If there was any impact, this would be a minor cost if required.

Matt:
The water easement, and issue for flooding on the fields.

Mike:
No, the section they are talking about is a low volume area. Further down, there are a couple of drains coming together and from that point forward there is good volume of water.

Ed:
Who needs this?

Mike:
The developers of the site. It is to our advantage that they do this and do it properly. We don't want any runoff from the hill or the springs up there coming our way. They have one permit for 50 units. There could be more later but only this one is permitted thus far. They have been trying since 1999 to get this thing going. I have net with the developer a number of times to review and plan this.

Ed:
This is a small easement? I have trouble with it going to a for-profit corporation with nothing in return. This is already set into motion.

Mike:
There is already too much water up on the property. Really shouldn't use any of the existing piping.

Ed:
When does construction start?

Mike:
Next month assuming things all work out.

Sue:

Mike:
The water needs to come down in a direct route. It will end up recharging the wet lands. It is desirable to do so. All the roof drains in Horace Mann and the High School go back into the ground to replenish the aquifer.

Matt:
With so much water over there is there something we can do to re-use it?

Mike:
Something to think about. A lot of initial cost for separate piping to use the water through the flushes rather than fresh water. Some work is being done in that area but not a lot yet.

Jeff:
Would like to get clarification from the FHS renovation architect on the placement of the water easement and the position of the FHS renovations. Has anyone put their seal on this to really signed off on this?

Mike:
No one has definitively looked at the wet lands. There is no real drainage on the fields themselves. The fields sheet drain into the wet lands.

Jeff:
Just looking to make sure than the runoff won't cause problems come spring.

Mike:
That site is really tough I wouldn't want to develop that site. We did some test drills and there was water really close to the surface of the ledge. Their engineer could comment on the wet lands and volume. They have to commit to not putting more into the wet lands than currently is.

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