Chris Baldwin and next to Chris on my near right, Laura Hatmaker on my near left, Alison Harris.

Next to Alison, Director of Planning and Development, Julie Erdman, and next to Julie, our land use planner, Matthew James.

We have two cases before us tonight, case number 25, 25 Simpsons Point Boat Launch, which was tabled on July 22nd.

And we'll remove it from the table and finish that up.

And then we have case number 2533, Woodside Private Street Development.

Matthew, would you introduce case number 2525, the Simpsons Point Boat Launch?

The planning board will review and act upon a tabled major development review, sketch, and final plan application submitted by GEI Consultants Incorporated on behalf of the town of Brunswick and the property owners, the Benson and Patricia Ford Trusts for improvements to the Simpsons Point Boat Launch.

The subject property is located on Simpsons Point Road, Map 31 Lot 4 and 4A, and within the Rural Protection 1 or RP1 zone, Shoreland Protection Overlay or SPO subdistrict, rural protection stormwater management overlay or RPSMO subdistrict, any shoreland protection overlay, resource protection or SPORP subdistrict.

I'd also like to note that this project previously included lot 4C on which the applicants have proposed a trail and staircase leading down to the beach.

However, that has been removed from the application and they will resubmit at a later time.

Okay.

Thank you.

So we tabled the project on July 22nd on August 8th.

Was it?

We took took it off the table and then retabled it.

So I'd like a motion to remove the application from the table.

Move by Chris Baldwin, second by Laura Hatmaker.

All those in favor, that's unanimous of the board members present.

All right.

Over to you.

Thank you very much.

I'm a civil engineer with GEI consultants.

Last time the project was presented by Lisa Vickers.

She's the project manager, but she's not able to be here tonight.

The project is for Simpsons Point boat launch.

It's uh funded by the town and by a small harbor improvement grant.

Um the reason the two projects, Lot 4C and the boat ramp are included together is because they're both in that funding stream and will be uh put out to bid together.

But the two projects are on separate lots, as uh was mentioned, so um the other project will be handled separately by staff.

So I have a few slides uh to show you.

Um this is the title sheet for the uh project and um you've got a very rough location of where the project is located.

Um this is um this is the site right here.

Um it's essentially a right-of-way that extends down through Simpsons Point directly to the water.

The old Chamberlain Pier is located there.

It's an intertidal area.

This picture is actually uh taken it at high water.

And we think there's been a ramp there uh since the 70s, but of course the pier was there much earlier, Chamberlain Pier.

This is the condition of the uh ramp right now.

Um you can see the um site has been improved with uh riprap uh slopes and uh concrete precast planks uh that go down uh to the water.

So this is the launch site.

Uh this site is used by um for hand carry um hand carry use for kayaks and and small paddle boards.

Um it is also used by the town uh emergency services and by the town airboat harbormaster.

The new facility does not change that use, but the boat ramp is made wider and also extends further towards the intertidal area.

This is the remnants of the old pier.

And town use.

Properties located on the town right away and also located on property owned by the adjacent butting property owners.

We do have DEP permits and also Army Corps permits for the project.

And lot 4C, which is being considered separately, includes a path down to the beach.

The only thing that has changed since you've seen this the last time is there was a section of the path that has been removed because of a comment that was received about endangered plant species.

This is the pre-cast ramp.

It's pretty common construction using pre-cast, which holds up very well in the intertidal resource.

The gradient of the ramp is pretty much the same as as existing, and it's going to be built up with essentially wave protection on either side of it, just as it does now.

And also at the very end, it's going to have some additional stone to kind of protect the tow, which is a high high area that is normally the first to get damaged.

There are some bollards up to keep wider vessels or wider trailers from using the ramp.

And but it's designed for hand carry and town town use, town harbormaster and EMS.

This is a cross section.

Very similar to what's there now.

Starts with the precast concrete planks that go on the surface.

They're articulated so they can take some movement.

Um starts with the precast concrete planks that go on the surface, they're articulated so they can take some movement, then there's a four-inch layer of uh of uh smaller stone, and then a uh approximately uh 18 inches to a foot of larger stone, and then the big the larger riprap to kind of consolidate the whole thing.

Uh one thing that was on the plan before, we did have some steel stringers and a note that referred to them.