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Conservation commission issues multiple approvals and minor modifications; several orders include planting or construction conditions
Summary
The commission approved several orders of conditions and minor modifications on April 17, including septic upgrades and raise-and-rebuild projects; most votes were unanimous and some approvals carry conditions such as mitigation planting plans or NHESP compliance.
At its April 17 meeting the Nantucket Conservation Commission approved a series of orders of conditions and minor modifications for properties across the island, and attached conditions designed to protect wetland resources and neighboring properties.
Key actions the commission approved include an IA septic upgrade at 8 Ames Avenue (Craig Cicero/owner) with conditions tied to NHESP and board-of-health variances; reconstruction and mitigation work at 3 Pochic Surfside LLC (raise and rebuild) with proposed mitigation plantings; and the Cheese and Crackers LLC project at 39 Cliff Road, for which the commission required a mitigation planting plan to be submitted for review before site work begins. Several minor modifications to previously permitted projects — including planting-plan refinements and driveway/landscape adjustments at multiple properties — were also approved.
Most votes on these matters were recorded by roll call and carried unanimously. When conditions were required, the commission specified native-species plantings, limits on fertilizers and agricultural chemicals within jurisdictional areas, and in some cases NHESP (state endangered-species) conditions to be added verbatim to orders when available. For the Cheese and Crackers/39 Cliff Road project commissioners asked for a mitigation planting plan and agreed it should be submitted prior to any site work.
The approvals ranged from small infrastructure changes (retaining wall and patio adjustments) to septic-system upgrades and full raise-and-rebuild projects; the common thread was commission emphasis on mitigation plantings and construction-phase protections where work touches buffer zones and resource areas.
Listed formal actions: - 8 Ames Avenue (Craig Cicero) — septic upgrade to a drip IA system: order approved; conditions to reflect NHESP and board of health decisions. - 3 Pochic Surfside LLC (3 Pochic Avenue) — raise and rebuild with mitigation plantings: order approved; mitigation ratio and native planting prescription adopted. - Cheese and Crackers LLC (39 Cliff Road) — raise and rebuild; commission approved subject to mitigation planting plan to be provided prior to start-of-construction. - Multiple minor modifications to existing orders (driveway/landscape reconfigurations, dune and BVW restorations, pool and retaining-wall adjustments) — approved as presented.
Commissioners emphasized native planting species, limits on cultivars and fertilizer use in jurisdictional areas, and that NHESP findings will be incorporated verbatim when applicable. The meeting record indicates these actions were carried unanimously by roll call where votes were recorded.
