Pittsfield Zoning Board of Adjustment
Town Hall, 85 Main Street
Pittsfield, NH 03263
Minutes of Public Meeting

DATE: THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2011

ITEM 1. Call to Order at 7:00 P.M. by Ed Vien, Chairman

ITEM 2. Roll Call

Members Present:

Edward Vien (EV), Chairman, Carole Dodge (CD), Vice-Chairman, Paul Metcalf, Sr. (PM), Jesse Pacheco (JP), Larry Federhen (LF), Ted Mitchell (TM), Alternate, Christopher Smith and Delores Fritz, Recording Secretary.

Members Absent:

Christopher Smith, Alternate

ITEM 3. Approval of Minutes of January 13, 2011

(CD) Motion to approve Minutes of January 13, 2011. (LF) Second. After Corrections noted, Carried: 5-0.

Corrections: Page 5, Paragraph 8: (EV) advised applicant of thirty day appeal process.

ITEM 4. Election of Chair and Vice-Chair

(CD) Motion to approve Edward Vien as Chair. (JP) Second.
Carried 4-0. (EV) Abstain.

(JP) Motion to approve Carole Dodge as Vice-Chair. (LF) Second. Carried 4-0. (CD) Abstain.

ITEM 5. New Business
a. OEP Conference

(EV) There is a conference sponsored by OEP on June 11th. The cost is $60. per person. If anyone would like to attend, please contact Dee.

(TM) I went in 2009 and there was a lot of information covered. It is an all day conference and you have a choice of attending several, I believe two, different segments of the conference depending on where your interests lie.

ITEM 6. Members Concerns

(EV) You all now have a copy of the revised Zoning Ordinances dated March 8, 2011. The Planning Board along with Matt Monahan did a heck of a job on these revisions. I did not agree on all of them, but the package as a whole was excellent. I voted for all of them. Thank you to the Planning Board for all the work and effort.

(TM) This year the Planning Board will be scaling back on aggressively utilizing the services of Matt Monahan, perhaps just via E-mail and hopefully saving time and money. The dynamics of the Planning Board is different this year. As Chairman, one thing I intend on doing after every meeting is to write a letter to the paper and perhaps, even having a blog on the Town website noting the information and requesting any comments.

(JP) Because of the fire that occurred at my home, I do not have any of the reference materials for the Zoning Board. They were all lost in the fire. I would appreciate replacement of any of that information, if possible. (Dee will provide him with any materials available – Rules of Procedure, previous Master Plan maps and new Master Plan.)

ITEM 7. Public Input

No audience present.

ITEM 8. Adjournment

(LF) Motion to adjourn. (CD) Second. Carried 5-0.

Meeting adjourned at 7:20 P.M.

Approved: June 9, 2011

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Edward Vien, Chairman Date

I hereby certify that these Minutes were recorded by me on April 14, 2011, transcribed and publicly posted on April 20, 2011.

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Delores A. Fritz, Recording Secretary

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