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August 17th, 2015
Carroll Planning Board
Meeting Minutes
August 6, 2015
“These minutes of the Town of Carroll Planning Board have been recorded by its Secretary. Though believed to be accurate and correct they are subject to additions,
deletions and corrections by the Planning Board at its next meeting when the Board votes its final approval of the minutes. They are being made available at this time to conform to the requirements of New Hampshire RSAS 90-A: 2.
Members Present: Chairperson Donna Foster, Ken Mills, Brian Mykco, Richard Krapf and Bonnie Moroney, Selectman’s Representative
Members of the Public: Evan Karpf, recording, Tom Smith, Surveyor, Andy Smith, Representative for the Property Owner, Jacqueline Murray from C. Davis Associates, Agent for Bay Communications II, LLC
Minutes taken by: Rena Vecchio, Secretary
Pledge of Allegiance
The meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m. Chairperson Donna Foster opened the meeting asking the board members if they had a chance to go over the minutes of July 2, 2015 and if they had any additions or corrections. Bonnie Moroney made a motion to: approve the minutes of July 2, 2015 as written. Ken Mills seconded and the motion passed unanimously.
Next on the agenda was the Application for a Boundary Line Adjustment (BLA) for Robert and Donna Manning, Dartmouth Ridge Road, Bretton Woods, NH, Map 211, Lots 48 and 49. Thomas Smith, LLS, Land Surveying and Mapping, has been named agent for the Manning’s on the BLA. The purpose of this BLA is to adjust their frontage line to eliminate an unused turn around. Mr. Smith had brought the BLA to the board in July for consultation.
Mr. Smith told the board he made the corrections to the mylar the board had asked for at the July consultation. He went on to give a quick review and reiterated that the Manning’s own either side of the turnaround and The Dartmouth Ridge Association and Fire Chief Oleson, of the Carroll Fire Department, have signed off on eliminating the turnaround (letters of such will be attached to the hard copy in the office).
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Bonnie Moroney made a motion to: approve the BoundaryLine Adjustment for Robert and Donna Manning, Dartmouth Ridge Road, Bretton Woods, NH, Map 211, Lots 48 and 49, as shown. Brian Mykco seconded and the motion passed unanimously.
The next item on the agenda was a consultation for Bay Communications II, LLC. Bay Communications will be applying for a Site Plan for a wireless telecommunications facility in the Town of Carroll. Chairperson Foster introduced Jacqueline Murray of C Davis Associates, the agent for Bay Communications.
Jacqueline Murray started by saying that Bay Communications has signed a proposal with the property owners of Map 206, Lot 25 to put a wireless communications facility on their property. They have leased a parcel size of 110 feet by 110 feet. The proposed tower will be 180 feet, which includes a four foot lightening rod. Other information she provided:
• Property is located off of Fieldstone Lane, Map 206, Lot 25, 26.4 acres
• Applicant wants to install, operate and maintain a personal wireless facility
• Facility will consist of a lattice tower and will be free standing
• Panel antennas will be attached to an antenna mount which is on the tower
• Antennas will be connected via cables running to equipment cabinet
• Facility will include lattice tower, equipment cabinets, panel antennas, GPS antennas, coaxial cables to connect to antennas base station, various support facilities including electric power and telephone service
• There will be a propane generator on site
• There will be an 8 foot chain link fence with barbed wire on the top
• All of the setbacks are fine, if anything falls down, nothing is in the way
• The carrier is Northeast Wireless Networks, LLC/AT&T
• The technology used requires the antennas be located above the tree line
• The engineers will be the only ones going up to the site and that will be only once in a while
• They are working with the FAA for a license
• They need to get an estimation of the dismantling of the tower
Donna Foster, Chair, told Ms. Murray that in the area they are proposing the tower, is a large boulder that is referred to as “Beecher’s Pulpit”. Henry Ward Beecher, brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, used to preach from the boulder with gatherings of up to 200 people. The town has never made it a historical area but townspeople have looked into it in the past. It is an area that townspeople would like to preserve if possible. Jacqueline said they would look into it and will work in the best interest to make sure it is avoided, within reason.
The following are board member questions and answers by Ms. Murray:
• Is the tower wind tested? Not yet.
• Is the tower a mono pole? No. Self-supporting.
• Will the facility increase coverage in the whole town? Mostly on Routes 3 & 302, not Route 115.
• Were other spots looked at for the tower? Location is central to the problem of no coverage.
• Location same as proposed in 2007? No, that was on Harmony Hill
• Can 180 feet be lowered with just as much coverage? No
• Property is for sale, what happens if it is sold? Lease goes with sale.
• Richard Krapf said he has been doing a lot of research on the location of the tower and behind Pike Industries, on the hill in the back, would provide great coverage and would include coverage for Route 115. Has Bay Communications thought of that. No. They want the Fieldstone Lane area. The Chair if they could please look at the possibilities of that location.
• Can a balloon test be done? If so, a Public Hearing may need to be done for that. Yes.
• The board requested Ms. Murray to look into paint and camouflaging for the tower/facility
Jackie said she would have their company do the estimation on the dismantling as the town at this point has no one to do it. The town will have the right to check estimate by someone later.
The board told Ms. Murray that by next week she had to have the Site Plan and abutters list in to the secretary along with the license from the FAA.
Brian Mycko made a motion to: accept the “basic completeness” of the application from Bay Communications II. LLC, for a Wireless Telecommunications Facility in the Town of Carroll, Map 206, Lot 25 as shown. Ken Mills seconded and the motion passed unanimously.
Under old business, the board went over the first 10 pages of the Site Plan Review. There is only one correction, the first page, section 2.03, change the word “find” to “obligate”. The board will look at the next 10 pages next month.
The Chair told the board that Tara Bamford, North Country Council, needed the board’s signatures on the updated Master Plan. The secretary is to scan the copy of the signatures to Tara and she will send us the updated copies.
Tara Bamford also told the Chair that she will talk to her about a program, Assessment on Roads, a DOT Grant, that helps with funding roads.
Bonnie Moroney made a motion to: adjourn the meeting. Brian Mycko seconded and the motion passed unanimously.