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Yarmouth conservation panel issues negative determinations for garage expansion at 40 Grandview Drive
Summary
The Yarmouth Conservation Commission granted negative determinations under the Wetlands Protection Act and the town bylaw for a proposed 174-square-foot garage expansion at 40 Grandview Drive, requiring a small native-plant mitigation planting.
The Yarmouth Conservation Commission on March 20 granted negative determinations under the Wetlands Protection Act and the town’s wetlands bylaw for a proposed garage and driveway expansion at 40 Grandview Drive. The applicant, represented by Lynn Hamlin, said the project will raise and replace an existing garage and add 174 square feet to the footprint.
The project site lies in a buffer zone to a coastal bank and within land subject to coastal storm flowage. Hamlin told the commission the existing garage sits about 83 feet from the top of bank. She said the bank is armored and bulkheaded and that the proposed work will occur within already disturbed lawn, patios and landscaped areas. "All the work will occur within existing landscape disturbed its patios and landscaping and, managed lawn. So there will be no impact to either the bank, the riverfront, or the flood zone," Hamlin said.
Hamlin said the applicant proposed 348 square feet of mitigation in the lawn area adjacent to the bank and noted the planting plan includes at least three species of native vegetation. Commission staff asked for and received confirmation of the planting species and monitoring expectations during the record; staff reported no objections to the work as proposed. A motion for negative determinations under the relevant categories carried unanimously.
The commission’s recorded action clears the applicant from filing a full Notice of Intent for the described work under the town bylaw and the state Wetlands Protection Act; the negative determinations mean no further permit from the commission is required for the proposed scope, subject to the conditions and the mitigation plan discussed at the hearing.
Commission staff also noted existing unpermitted expansions of walkway and patio on the property, which predate the current application and were described in the minutes as not subject to enforcement because the statute of limitations has passed. The minutes will note the prior unpermitted work remains unpermitted.
