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Avon wetlands commission votes 4–3 to hold public hearing on Haynes Road driveway application
Summary
At its May 6 meeting the Inland Wetlands Commission voted to hold a public hearing on Application #802, a request to construct a driveway at 80 Haynes Road within the 100-foot upland review area. The commission also approved referral to the North Central Conservation District and rejected a proposal to hire an additional soil scientist.
The Inland Wetlands Commission on May 6 voted to schedule a public hearing on Application #802, a request by property owner John Anthony Esper to construct a driveway and carry out related site work within the 100-foot upland review area for 80 Haynes Road (Parcel #2600080). Commissioner Gary Gianini made the motion for a public hearing; Commissioner Thomas Kassan seconded it and the motion passed 4–3.
The application drew three subsequent procedural motions. Commissioner Gianini moved to invoke the town's Complex Application Regulation and to hire an additional soil scientist to review the file; Vice Chair Michael Sacks seconded that motion, which did not pass. The meeting record contains inconsistent roll-call detail for that vote: the minutes state numeric results (one yes, four no, one abstain) but list five names in the ‘‘no’’ column. The transcript confirms only the outcome — the motion failed — and the commission did not adopt additional consultant work at this meeting.
After the failed motion, Gianini moved that the North Central Conservation District review Application #802; Vice Chair Sacks seconded and the motion passed with six yes votes and one abstention (Commissioner Carol Hauss abstained). The commission did not set a date for the public hearing in the meeting record; the packet indicates the hearing will proceed to the next procedural step pending the District's input.
The application file lists David Whitney, P.E. of David F. Whitney Consulting Engineers, LLC, as the applicant’s engineering representative; Eric Davison of Davison Environmental, LLC, is noted as the soil scientist on record. The meeting record identifies the owner/applicant as John Anthony Esper and indicates an excavator (Joseph Frenette) and the owner’s attorney (Lisa Silverio) were present for the discussion.
The commission’s decisions were strictly procedural at this session: the public-hearing vote advances the application to a hearing stage, the Complex Regulation motion was defeated, and the commission referred the application to the North Central Conservation District for external review. Any technical recommendations or permit conditions will be recorded after the District review and at the public hearing if scheduled.
