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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I’ve written some Special Permits decisions with the Site Plan Decision within the same decision, so long as they’re filed concurrently. Seems to cover it.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> MassPlanners <massplanners-bounces@masscptc.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Nipun Jain via MassPlanners<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 19, 2024 4:00 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Michael McCarthy <Michael.McCarthy@newbedford-ma.gov>; Star Atkeson <Star.Atkeson@townofcharlemont.org>; massplanners@masscptc.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Massplanners] [EXTERNAL] Registering Site Plan Review and Special Permit at Registry of Deeds?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mike,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, do you require anything to be recorded with a Site Plan? Decision or a plan or both?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nipun Jain<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amesbury<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael McCarthy via MassPlanners<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 19, 2024 8:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Star Atkeson <<a href="mailto:Star.Atkeson@townofcharlemont.org">Star.Atkeson@townofcharlemont.org</a>>;
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Massplanners] [EXTERNAL] Registering Site Plan Review and Special Permit at Registry of Deeds?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi Star,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">MGL 40A Section 11 covers the recording of special permits at the registry:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A special permit, or any extension, modification or renewal thereof, shall not take effect until a copy of the decision bearing the certification of the city or town clerk that 20
days have elapsed after the decision has been filed in the office of the city or town clerk and either that no appeal has been filed or the appeal has been filed within such time, or if it is a special permit which has been approved by reason of the failure
of the permit granting authority or special permit granting authority to act thereon within the time prescribed, a copy of the application for the special permit-accompanied by the certification of the city or town clerk stating the fact that the permit granting
authority or special permit granting authority failed to act within the time prescribed, and whether or not an appeal has been filed within that time, and that the grant of the application resulting from the failure to act has become final, is recorded in
the registry of deeds for the county and district in which the land is located and indexed in the grantor index under the name of the owner of record or is recorded and noted on the owner's certificate of title. The person exercising rights under a duly appealed
special permit does so at risk that a court will reverse the permit and that any construction performed under the permit may be ordered undone. This section shall in no event terminate or shorten the tolling, during the pendency of any appeals, of the 6 month
periods provided under the second paragraph of section 6. The fee for recording or registering shall be paid by the owner or applicant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">When one is required, our building commissioner will not issue a permit unless an applicant provides a copy of a registry-stamped decision with a certificate of no appeal from our clerk, so that’s one way
to enforce the recording. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Like you, we used to have people record site plan review decisions but found there was no ordinance requirement and stopped suggesting it. To me, this makes sense because special permit approvals usually contain
information that would be relevant in the future and should be preserved at the registry, such as the number of allowed parking spaces on a site or when a nonconformity is determined to be less determinantal, but site plan review conditions are typically
like “revise the plans to show a dumpster enclosure prior to the issuance of a building permit” and other things that are settled before a project gets going.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Mike McCarthy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Asst. City Planner <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">New Bedford <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Star Atkeson via MassPlanners<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 16, 2024 4:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:massplanners@masscptc.org">massplanners@masscptc.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [Massplanners] Registering Site Plan Review and Special Permit at Registry of Deeds?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:.75pt"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">Dear Planners, We have always stamped the bottom of our Special Permits with "No permit is active until filed at the registry of deeds with certificate of no appeal.</span><span style="font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white"> </span><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">"
We are amending a business's Site Plan review, and we had not written on the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear Planners,<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We have always stamped the bottom of our Special Permits with "No permit is active until filed at the registry of deeds with certificate of no appeal."<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We are amending a business's Site Plan review, and we had not written on the original that it must be registered at the registry of deeds, back in 2015- and are noticing that a few old Site Plan Reviews are missing this. In our zooming bylaws and PB Rules and Regs, it does not say a Special Permit or Site Plan review must be registered at the registry of deeds. It only shows up in our Site Plan review flow chart which was most likely copied from another town, and assumed a building permit was needed.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It has been hard to enforce businesses to register at the registry of deeds.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Are Site Plan Reviews or Special permits only to be registered at the registry of deeds if they are seeking a building permit?<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We have a Site Plan review coming up for a diner, and the applicant is a renter. There won't be a building permit. In the past we would have asked him to register at the registry. Is this unnecessary?<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Star Atkeson <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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