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Board continues Elm Street (Portsmouth Heights) progress review to Oct. 9 after contractor reports cleanup and paving plans
Summary
Harkins Development’s Portsmouth Heights work has progressed; DPW and contractor reported cleaned ponds and scheduled binder replacement and paving, and the board continued the Elm Street progress report to the Oct. 9 meeting for an update.
The Portsmouth Planning Board on Sept. 11 continued the Elm Street progress report for the Portsmouth Heights subdivision to its Oct. 9 meeting after staff and the contractor described recent site work and plans to repave.
Paul Rodricks, director of public works, told the board crews had mowed detention ponds, completed DigSafe markings and identified binder areas that must be replaced before the final top course. Rodricks said the general contractor and paver marked needed binder replacement and indicated the contractor hoped to pave within about three weeks.
Michael Atkinson of WC Excavation, the contractor on-site for the applicant, said his crew had cleaned retention ponds, performed preliminary swale work and planned to rip out and repave the cul-de-sac binder because the asphalt was not salvageable. “It will be paved by, hopefully, the end of next week,” Atkinson told the board.
Board members and staff discussed a row of plantings in the town right-of-way that could be removed if future utilities require the right-of-way to be cleared and noted a continuing question over whether a homeowners association has formally organized and who will manage long-term maintenance of swales and ponds. Planning staff said they will ask the applicant to return to the Oct. 9 meeting with a progress update.
The board voted to continue the item to the Oct. 9 meeting for a status report; the developer was granted the extension that the board previously provided in June to remedy outstanding items including replacement of binder, riprap and swale reestablishment, removal of silt from the drainage pond, installation of bounds, completion of as-builts and final loam-and-seed restoration.
Planning staff and DPW said recent coordination with the contractor and the applicant’s representatives in the preceding days produced visible progress, and the board requested that a field representative attend the Oct. 9 meeting to report final paving and as-built status.
