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Commission continues review of 282 Foreside Drive; requires two-year monitoring and addendum
Summary
The commission continued the 282 Foreside Drive matter, directed staff to prepare an addendum requiring a two-year monitoring report after tree replacements, and asked the applicant to begin replacement work within two weeks.
The Gardner Conservation Commission continued a review of work at 282 Foreside Drive and required an addendum stipulating a two-year monitoring program following tree replacement in areas where deciduous trees were cut.
Staff and the applicant discussed boundary uncertainty for a parcel that appears in municipal records as owner-unknown; the commission asked staff to confirm ownership and to remark boundaries. The applicant said they would plant replacement deciduous trees (recommended species included red maple and black cherry) using bare-root stock in three-and-a-half-gallon containers or similar small stock to avoid introducing invasive material.
The commission agreed to continue the matter to June 9, with an addendum that requires the landowner to document plantings, watering responsibilities, and monitoring, and to file monitoring reports after the first and second growing seasons. The applicant said planting was scheduled to start in about two weeks and that branches cut from the property would be stacked or left to decompose on the landowner's parcel, not on wetlands.
