Present: Walter Byron, Mark Nelson, Bob Nicodemus, Greg Mirliss, Chris Watson
Absent: Lori Scholl
1. Call to Order: Bob called the meeting to order at 8:00 p.m.
2. Meeting Minutes Posting: Topic postponed until Lori returns.
3. Chris Watson Appointment: Awaiting a joint Planning Board, Board of Selectmen meeting.
4. Town Center 43D: The full application for both segments of the Town Center was approved by the Interagency Board per Bob Bullock report of 11-2-09.
5. EDC Web Site: Mark reported that significant progress has been made in adding content for the Southwood page and that he has spoken to the owner of Rocco Plaza to solicit his inputs for describing that property. Mark also said that Lori had spoken with someone from River's Edge to ask the same questions. Mark has also spoken to Mass Site Finder to see if they will provide a link to our site.
Mark also will craft a draft email to the Planning Board and the Board of Selectmen asking for them to direct the Assessor's Office to provide the EDC with a copy of the Assessor Book listing all properties in Norfolk. This will provide information on commercial and potential commercial properties in Town as the EDC works to bring more business and commercial development to the Town.
6. Contact Person: The designated contact person on the Norfolk EDC Web Site is Jack Hathaway. It may make sense to have another person from Town Government assume this role, give the work load Jack carries. We will revisit this item in the near future.
7. Meeting of EDC -Caritas - Mass Development on 10-29: Feedback on the draft Minutes has been received from both Caritas and Mass Dev and a update to the draft Minutes will be prepared and issued. Using the Minutes of this meeting, Bob will prepare a report to the Board of Selectmen and Planning Board and request a joint meeting with the BOS / PB before the end of the year to discuss options on
how to move forward with the Southwood property.
The EDC has agreed to walk the Southwood property in the near future to become familiar with the land and the buildings.
8. Sewer Consultant Report: The consultant, SEA, hired using 43D grant funds to analyze the potential solutions to the sewer requirements for the Southwood property has provided the costs and feasibility of two ways of hooking up to the MWRA sewer system in Walpole. However, Walpole officials are not in favor of these options. SEA has also provided an analysis that says the site soil conditions are
adequate to discharge up to 60K gpd of treated effluent, sufficient to service a large commercial development on the site.
10. Other 43D Grants for the Southwood Site: Southwood GIS software grant was awarded to SEA @ $2.5K on 8/10/09. The Southwood consultant agreement for Traffic (C&C @ $8K) needs to be released.
11. Mock Application for Southwood Using the New 43d Expedited Permitting Process: This idea will be tested again at the Design Review Coordinating Council Meeting called by Bob Bullock on Thursday, 11-19, at 7:00 p.m.
12. Planning Meeting: The EDC needs to meet with the BOS & PB to a planning session to develop joint short and medium range goals including preparing a budget and any articles for the spring Town Meeting. This need will be addresses on the agenda for the meeting requested in item 7 above.
13. Future Meetings: It was agreed that the EDC would meet in December on the 3rd and the 15th at 8:00 p.m.
14. Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 8:50 p.m.
Respectfully submitted
Lori Scholl
Clerk, EDC
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