Like the call to order, PBD Planning Board meeting agenda for October fifteenth, two thousand twenty-six, held at seven PM, PB City Hall, Wigan Auditorium, Twenty Four Low Street, PBD Mass.

At this time, I'd like to suspend the public the planning board meeting and enter into a public hearing.

Notice is hereby given that the Planning Board City of PV will conduct a public hearing on Thursday evening, October fifteenth, two thousand twenty-six at seven PM Wigan Auditorium, City Hall, twenty-four Low Street, PB Mass to consider the revision of Chapter Forty Eight, Section Five, Massachusetts General Laws to consider amending the zoning map of the city PB as follows.

Section One that the zoning map of the City of Peabody entitled PB zoning map adopted twelve twelve of twenty-four as amended hereby further amended as follows.

And uh we uh originally came here seeking uh uh an R4 zoning designation.

Uh we had uh indicated to the planning board and uh uh at that hearing that uh what we wanted to yield was whatever the lot area and frontage uh would yield uh without uh the construction of a roadway.

If we take this matter to the uh planning board, we have a um uh plan that would depict that we've got to build X number of feet of roadway, get to the top of the hill, put a cul-de-sac, brings us closer to uh uh the vernal pool area uh and uh utilizes in uh uh a fashion almost all of the uh acreage of this lot.

Uh it was suggested uh that uh my R4 zoning, which I had initially asked for so that we could do multifamily.

Uh it was suggested that the R4 zoning would allow commercial, and that's true.

I think it was uh counselor Hartman uh that uh pointed out to the city that uh uh a change to R4 would allow there to be mixed use.

Um that was uh not amenable, I think, to this board uh to the city council and uh so I amended uh since what we want.

If we went to uh if we filed this definitive subdivision plan, is our uh expectation uh and we've done the engineering to determine uh mathematically that we would get four lots uh under the current zoning, and we would need to build the roadway to frontage.

That would entail uh a major uh uh uh concerns uh by the neighbors with respect to blasting uh uh and uh in order to get that hillside down to the grade uh that the planning board could uh approve.

The um it was pointed out that we would get the same yield with an R2.

There would be no possibility of uh of uh having uh mixed-use zoning.

And so uh we amended our request to the City Council land to this planning board.

We amended it to uh seek R2 zoning.

Uh that would yield two uh two lots uh and each of them could have a two-family uh duplex structure uh and uh we're perfectly content fine with that.

I do know that uh there is some concern on the part of the neighbors.

I believe that if the board uh makes a recommendation this evening and it moves on to the city council, uh I would be able to have a development plan available uh to address issues that have arisen uh such as uh impact on neighbors.

Do we are we gonna provide any kind of landscaping?

Uh we hadn't really uh engineered that yet, but it's very, very possible the two uh the two R2 lots would be would provide uh plenty of space to uh uh to plenty of space to uh provide landscaping fencing, whatever it uh may be.

Uh we've also been asked to consider uh whether or not uh we will make utilization keeping uh the vernal pool that's between us and the high school.

Uh years ago, there was a small parcel of land donated as part of the uh subdivision that runs up the hill a couple of doors down.

Uh and uh there's an area where there is a bench, and I think that bench is uh dedicated to uh Dr.

Perezian uh and uh former chair of the conservation commission, and it affords uh the opportunity for the high school uh kids to come out.

I think the doc himself actually used to uh bring a class out and sit and learn to appreciate the nature of uh a vernal pool.

So we will consider there will be uh extra land that uh uh is uh covered by the vernal pool, so we will consider uh dividing that off and uh uh things of that nature.

There is no uh risk of uh commercial development if we go to the R2 zone, and uh I'm happy to answer questions uh that the board or uh the public may have uh for you this evening.

Where request has changed to change us from R1 to R2 rather than our earlier requests R1 to R4.

At this time, any questions from the board?

Yes, sir.

Through the through the chair.

Jack, uh why does your proposal not include rezoning for all of that neighborhood?

They're all the same zone currently.

Why aren't we making a proposal for that whole neighborhood to be rezoned?

The use of the land by uh uh the our neighbors uh we're proposing a teardown uh and um the other neighbors haven't approached or haven't asked to be in involved in it.

I think if there were other neighbors that wanted uh this zoning, uh we would uh happily let them tag along and request the zone change, but we've had nobody approach us asking for that zone change.

And

of course, our immediate uh neighbors uh the temple, which is exempted uh under zoning and uh they can be located in any zoning district.

Thank

you.

Any other questions for it?

Yes, Judy.

Yes, do we have a map or a plan that shows this parcel?

Just put it on the screen.

Thank

you.

Just to orient my mouse is on top of the high school.

This is Lowell Street and the intersection right here where my mouse is is the rolling hills entrance.

Uh that a shared driveway between the two duplexes yielding one curb cut uh would be uh uh more desirable than two curb cuts for each

unit.

So the house that shows that'll come down.

There'll be a uh line essentially uh centered uh in the middle of our frontage, and uh that line would create two lots in excess of 7500 square feet each.

And in the upper left hand corner, that uh sort of tomahawk section, that's where the vernal pool

is.

Any other questions from the board?

Yes.

Jack, a couple of questions.

Um where would the uh the access be for this lot?