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[Paulette Van der Kloot]: Good evening and welcome to tonight's meeting of the Medford Community Development Board. I'll call the meeting to order. Let's begin with some of the procedural matters. This hearing of the Medford Community Development Board is being conducted via remote means. No in-person attendance of members of the public will be permitted, but every effort will be made to ensure that the public can adequately access the proceedings as provided for in Chapter 2 of the Acts of 2023. A reminder that anyone who would like to listen to or view this meeting while in progress may do so by assessing the link that was included on the meeting agenda posted on the City of Medford's website. If despite our best efforts, we are not able to provide real-time access, we will post a recording of this meeting on the city's website as soon as possible. A reminder that given the remote nature of this meeting tonight, all votes from the board will be made by roll call. Please know that the project materials for all projects before the board can be viewed on the city's website at MethodMA.org. And you can click on current CD board filings. Danielle will provide the link in the chat. I'm going to do a roll call. Vice Chair Emily Hederman? Present. Peter Cowles?
[SPEAKER_00]: Present.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: Ari Fishman.
[SPEAKER_00]: Present.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: Sharad Bhattacharya.
[SPEAKER_00]: Present.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: And myself, Jackie McPherson. Danielle, can you introduce any staff on the call?
[Danielle Evans]: Myself, senior planner in PDS, and Clem just said, graduate student intern in our office. And that is everybody for now.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: So the first item on the list for our agenda tonight is 290 Salem Street, which is a site plan plus special permit to allow the construction of a three-story mixed-use building to contain seven residential units above ground for commercial space. Danielle, can you please give an update on this project? It's continued from 4-13-24? Yes, so they,
[Danielle Evans]: This matter needs to be continued to the next meeting. I got an update today that they are aiming to have revised plans to me this Friday and potentially a draft tomorrow for me to react to. I don't recall if at the last meeting I had an update, but we had a very productive meeting last week, which I think will address the concerns. So I'm hopeful that on 5-15, we'll be able to vote on this and issue a decision. So at the next meeting, I'll have some draft conditions
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: In final in final plans and i'll have those two um in time for your meeting packets the friday before the meeting Okay, so at this time i'm going to request a motion for continuance to uh Which which is may May 15th So do I have a motion to uh continue to 97th street to may 15 2024
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll make a motion. I second.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: Okay, so that was Emily that did the first and Ari did the second. And we'll call Vice Chair Emily Hedeman. Aye. Ari Fishman. Aye. Peter Kautz.
[SPEAKER_00]: Aye.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: Sherrod watch watch area.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: So the next item on our agenda is there is the approval of minutes from 3 2024 as well as 4324. I believe we need a motion for each one separately. So starting with 3 20 24. I have a motion to approve the minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I so move. And I'll second.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: Vice Chair Emily Headman.
[SPEAKER_00]: Aye.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: Ari Fishman. Aye. Peter Kautz. Aye. Sharad Bajracharya.
[SPEAKER_00]: Aye.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: And myself, Jackie McPherson, I'm an I. And just to back up on the continuance of 290 Salem Street, I did not give an I, but I was an I for 290 continuance, 515. I just realized I didn't include myself. And I also need a motion for the approval of minutes for 4324.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll make the motion. I'll second.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: Vice Chair Emily Hederman.
[SPEAKER_00]: Aye.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: Ari Fishman. Aye. Peter Cowes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Aye.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: Sharad Bhatracharya.
[SPEAKER_00]: Aye.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: And myself, Jackie McPherson. I'm an aye. And so that brings us to our final agenda item and that zoning overhaul updates that the city was going to give an update on. At this point, Danielle, we've agreed that you're going to send us some materials to review first and perhaps put it on the next meeting.
[Danielle Evans]: Yeah, so it looks like Director Hunt just emailed out the memo. So you should have it now, not to discuss tonight, but just so you know that this is the one that came through that you can review. Also, she included the slides to the presentation to the city council subcommittee meeting that was held on Wednesday. So those are an alternating Wednesdays from you all's meeting. So, and his associates gave that presentation to The new subcommittee is called it's the permit and it's permitting and planning maybe zoning subcommittee. They've all been renamed and that one is not rolling off the tongue. So if you were unable to watch that, you don't have to. But if you wanted to see the presentation, you could go on to the medfordtv.org. or whatever the Medford Community Media website is, those recordings where all the board, city board meetings are, folks can review that or watch that to see the questions and the conversations that occurred then. Basically, it was going through the timeline and what issues will be tackled first this fiscal year, and which will be started next fiscal year, starting in July. So it's more like the low-hanging fruit, urgent things that don't need further study. And then we'll get into the real meaty stuff in FY25.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: Awesome. So before I go to adjournment, do you want, is there anything from Miscellaneous that the board or city staff will want to discuss outside of the zoning overhaul updates? I don't have anything else. So now I will ask for a motion to adjourn.
[SPEAKER_00]: I move.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: I'll second the motion. Vice Chair Emily Hedeman.
[SPEAKER_00]: Aye.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: Ari Fishman.
[SPEAKER_00]: Aye.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: Peter Kautz.
[SPEAKER_00]: Aye.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: Gerard Blachbacheria.
[SPEAKER_00]: Aye.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: And myself, Jackie McPherson. I'm an aye. Thank you, everyone. See you on the 15th. I guess we will review, in the interim, we'll review the materials that Alicia has sent out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bye everyone. Have a nice day.
[Paulette Van der Kloot]: Have a great night.
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