Committee on Homelessness - Sep. 2
TIME: 2:00 PM LOCATION: Large Meeting Room, Bangs Community Center. LIST OF TOPICS: 1. Approve minutes. 2. Valley CDC presentation on their projects. 3. Brainstorming how to proceed to build supportive housing for the homeless. 4. Shelter RFQ responses and Committee recommendation. 5. Update on the Shelter at the First Baptist Church site. 6. CDBG application process and improvement recommendations. 7. AOB.
Recycling and Refuse Management Committee - Sep. 2
TIME: 4:30 PM LOCATION: Public Works Meeting Room. LIST OF ITEMS: 1. Minutes approval. 2. Committee chairmanship: nominations and vote. 3. Membership recruitment planning. 4. School composting update. 5. Bottle redemption discussion. 6. MA DEP Solid Waste Master Plan discussion. 7. New business.
Select Board - Sep. 2
TIME: 6:30 PM LOCATION: First Floor Meeting Room, Town Hall. LIST OF ITEMS: Call to order. Opening remarks, announcements, and agenda review by Chairperson O'Keeffe. Time Scheduled Items: 6:30 pm - Reconsideration of 9/11 flag policy (Ms. O'Keeffe). 6:35 pm - Plans for interim Town Manager and transition period (Ms. O'Keeffe).
Board of Health - Sep. 2
TIME: 7:00 PM LOCATION: Room 101, Bangs Community Center. DISCUSSION ITEMS: 1. Meeting minutes from June 17, 2010 - DRAFT. 2. Meeting minutes from July 22, 2010 - DRAFT. 3. Electronic cigarette devices. 4. Rental registration. 5. Keeping of livestock and poultry. 6. Board of Health member recruitment. 7. Proposed smoking disclosure regulation: review revised draft. Smoke-free housing/condo seminar proposal. 8. Environmental tobacco smoke. No smoking signage for town parks and municipal buildings. 9. Director's report. 10. Scheduling of next Board of Health meeting. Please call the Amherst Public Health Department for more information at 413-259-3077.
Zoning Board of Appeals - Sep. 2
TIME: 7:30 PM LOCATION: Town Room, Town Hall. ABUTTERS/PUBLIC NOTICE - PUBLIC HEARINGS AND PUBLIC MEETING. The Amherst Zoning Board of Appeals will meet to conduct the following business: ZBA FY2011-00003 - Layne Floyd - To modify Special Permit, ZBA FY2004-00022, to add one (1) additional bedroom in each unit of an existing two-family dwelling and to remove a requirement for an on-site manager, under Section 10.33 of the Zoning Bylaw, at 192/194 Belchertown Road (Map 15C, Parcel 64, R-N Zoning District). ZBA FY2011-00004 - Layne Floyd - To modify Special Permit, ZBA FY1998-0015, to add two (2) additional bedrooms in one (1) of two (2) units on the property and to remove a requirement for owner occupancy and/or on-site manager, under Section 10.33 of the Zoning Bylaw, at 204/206 Belchertown Road (Map 15C, Parcel 32, R-N Zoning District)
Local Historic District Study Committee - Sep. 7
TIME: 5:30 PM LOCATION: Lower Meeting Room, Bangs Community Center. LIST OF TOPICS: 1. Announcements 2. Minutes 3. Old Business: a. Rules and Regulations b. Preliminary study report - methodology, property photographs c. Other 4. New Business: a. public outreach - next public forum b. Other 5. Next meetings - September, October 6. Adjournment. MEMBERS: RSVP by previous day if unable to attend.
Norwottuck Rail Trail Advisory Committee - Sep. 7
TIME: 5:30 PM LOCATION: Hitchcock Center for the Environment, 525 South Pleasant St, Amherst. LIST OF TOPICS: 1. Opening of the meeting. 2. Minutes of June 17 and July 14 meetings. 3. Next steps with MEPA, DCR, Stantec and the EIR. 4. Signage/kiosk/bulletin-board policy along NRT. 5. Other business/discussion. 6. Adjourn.
Public Works Committee - Sep. 7
TIME: 7:00 PM LOCATION: Town Room, Town Hall. AGENDA: 1. Administrative a. Review/approve minutes of August 3, 2010 meeting b. Set dates for next meetings and/or public hearings. 2. Project updates from Guilford. 3. Old business: discussion and vote on proposed changes to the Big Y/Rt. 9/University Drive area that were discussed in public hearing at previous meeting (Committee members should review any materials related to this project that have been posted on the DPW website). 4. New business a. Discussion of list of town streets in need of repair - need update from previous list dated Fall, 2008. b. Discussion and support of Community Development Block Grant project to repair Main Street from Churchill to North East Street. c. Discussion and support of next phase of Lincoln Ave study.
Amherst Historical Commission - Sep. 7
TIME: 7:15 PM LOCATION: Lower Meeting Room, Bangs Community Center. LIST OF TOPICS: 1. Announcements 2. Minutes 3. Old Business: a. Committee reports - Community Preservation Act (CPA project updates); Local Historic District Study Committee b. West Cemetery c. NHR Nominations d. Preservation Grants - applications, status (preservation award, other) 4. New Business: a. Officers and membership (committee representatives) b. General FY2011 planning c. Demolition delay applications - new and follow-up (site visit - 235 E. Pleasant St) d. Other 5. Next meetings - September, October 6. Adjournment MEMBERS: Note location and time. RSVP if unable to attend.
Conservation Commission - Sep. 8
TIME: 7:00 PM LOCATION: Town Room, Town Hall. LIST OF TOPICS: 7:00 PM - Comments from the Chair, Director's Report, Wetland Administrator's Report, Review minutes of 8/18/10 and 8/25/10 meetings. 7:30 PM - Request for determination (RFD 20-1204) - Amherst Dept. of Public Works for intersection improvements within the buffer zone of bordering vegetated wetlands located on University Dr 7:40 PM - Notice of Intent (NOI 10-1203) - Hampshire Property Management Group, Inc. for drainage system repair in the buffer zone of bordering vegetated weetlands located on Emerson Ct 7:50 PM - Request for Determination (RFD 10-1205) - Cherry Hill Golf Course for installation of a well in the riverfront resource area and buffer zone of bordering vegetated wetlands located off Montague Rd UNTIMED ITEMS: Request for a three year Extension of the Order of Conditions issued to Hampshire College for construction of Veridian Village; Land Use Policy - ongoing general discussion.
Council on Aging - Sep. 9
TIME: 9:00 AM LOCATION: Large Activity Room, Bangs Community Center. LIST OF TOPICS: 1. Welcome 2. Minutes of July meeting 3. Friends' Treasurer's Report (Doris), donations to Friends FY10 to date 4. Conversation with Larry Shaffer 5. Continuing business: Friends - response to Bill Shontz' proposal, Town Meeting approach for survey dissemination; Alan Root generated survey; Landscaping work update 6. New business (if needed) 7. Subcommittee update - Ad Hoc survey, SHAG (Senior Health Advisory Committee) (Dan), Highland Valley Elder Services (Joan, Barbara), Changes Subcommittee, COA Nominating Committee update 8. Staff reports - Maura, Nancy: Annual volunteer social 10/21 at 2:00 pm 9. Next meeting date: 10/14/10 at 9:00 am 10. Adjournment
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Amherst Planning Board - Sep. 15
TIME: 7:05 PM LOCATION: Town Room, Town Hall. PUBLIC HEARING: To consider the following proposed amendment to the Zoning Bylaw: A-01-11, Accessory livestock & poultry (Planning Board). To amend Section 5.014 and Article 12 of the Zoning Bylaw to regulate the raising and keeping of rabbits and selected fowl in the R-G, R-VC, and R-N Districts by right or through Special Permit as an accessory use, to create numerical limitations on such accessory uses according to species or breed and available lot size, and to create clarifying definitions. Copies of the proposed amendment are available in the Planning Dept, Town Hall.
Amherst Planning Board - Sep. 15
TIME: 7:30 PM LOCATION: Town Room, Town Hall. PUBLIC HEARING: To consider the following Site Plan Review applications: 7:30 PM - SPR2011-00003/M6685 - South Amherst School, 1001 South East St - Ron Bohonowicz. Request Site Plan Review approval to replace the existing front door with a handicapped accessible door and to create on-property parking. (Map 20D/Parcel 25, RN and APR Zoning Districts). 7:45 PM - SPR2011-00004/M6686 - Bangs Community Center, 70 Boltwood Walk - Ron Bohonowicz. Request Site Plan approval to re-pave and re-landscape the pedestrian plaza at the west entrance (Map 19A/Parcel 305; B-G Zoning District). Plans are available for viewing in the Planning Dept, Town Hall.
Amherst Redevelopment Authority - Sep. 17
TIME: 9:00 AM LOCATION: Trip to Storrs (Mansfield), Connecticut. AGENDA: The Amherst Redevelopment Authority will travel to Storrs (Mansfield), Connecticut to discuss with Mansfield Town Manager, Matt Hart and other town officials and University of Connecticut officials how a partnership between the town and university can provide needed student housing and other student retail and commercial services along with appropriate tax base development.