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Engineer presents pile-supported rebuild at Maravista Avenue; staff recommends limiting fire pit and notes enclosed space rules
Summary
At 415 Maravista Ave, the applicant proposes to raise and rebuild the house on piles with a new Title 5 septic, H-20 drainage and retaining walls; staff recommended a portable fire pit in the V-zone and asked for clarifications about enclosed space and breakaway walls.
Chuck Rowland of Cape Ann Islands Engineering presented plans to raise the existing single-family home on piles, install a new Title 5 septic system with a mounted leaching field and multiple dry wells, and provide H-20-rated drainage for driveway areas. Rowland said the proposed lowest horizontal structural member would be "3 feet above the base flood elevation" and that the design meets FEMA and state building-code requirements for coastal construction.
Staff asked about a fire pit sited within a regulatory V-zone; Rowland said the applicant would accept a condition making any fire pit portable if the commission preferred. Alyssa, staff, noted that "FEMA does not like to see too many, vertical structures that could impede the flow of water," and recommended conditioning the feature as portable. The commission closed the hearing and will take the plan under advisement pending any requested plan clarifications and the submitted zoning application.
