by Alex Brooks
The Grafton Planning Board held a Special Meeting on October 1 in which they accepted the Draft Environmental Impact Statement from Stonybrook Properties for a 26 lot subdivision proposal involving about 141 acres on land between South Long Pond Road and the Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center, with frontage on South Long Pond. The project includes construction of a new road 4000 feet long.
The board passed a resolution declaring the Impact Statement “complete and adequate for public review,” and scheduled a Public Hearing on it for October 20 at 6 pm.
The impact statement is a lengthy document with several documents, exhibits, and maps appended. It is available for public review at the Grafton Town Hall. Town Attorney Sal Ferlazzo told all present that if they would like him to send an electronic copy of the document in PDF format, they may email him at sdf@girvinlaw.com and he will send a copy by email. Grafton Town Supervisor Allison Kirchner said she would try to put the document on the Town of Grafton web site so it can be downloaded from there, but she wasn’t sure when or if this could be accomplished. This site is at www.graftonny.org.
When asked if there will be limits on how long someone can speak at the public hearing, members of the Planning Board said that no formal limit has been established, but in general a comment of about 5 minutes or so has been the norm, and the board hopes that comments won’t go too much longer than that.
Ferlazzo encouraged people with detailed and lengthy comments to put them in writing and submit them that way, so the Board could review them thoroughly and respond to their contents. Written comments on this subdivision proposal will be accepted from now until November 7, 2008.