<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Star-</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm shooting from the hip here having little experience with this issue, but I would think amending a special permit (which is a deeded document?) would <u>require</u> a public hearing, informing abutters etc. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">If the Board of Health is 'looking for a legal document' I would consider contacting Town Counsel for advice. The fact that the applicant doesn't want to go through the hearing process is a bit of a red flag to me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I hope this is some help,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Mark Smith</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Planning Board</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Town of Lenox</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 3:13 PM Star Atkeson via MassPlanners <<a href="mailto:massplanners@masscptc.org">massplanners@masscptc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg6711290422111517707">
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We have a wedding venue in town who wants the Planning Board to amend their special permit to limit the number of events, as a (previously agreed) way to satisfy the Board of Health, that they do not need to be a public water supply. The change would be a sentence
limiting the number of events to 60 per year, they currently only do about 20 anyways. There would be a second minor change to the specific
<i>public water supply</i> condition in the permit.</div>
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Would you consider this a minor change, since nothing would tangibly be changing at the venue except they wouldn't need to use bottled water? Or is it a significant change, since it is stipulated by another board who seems to be looking for a legal document.</div>
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The applicant does not want to do the hearing process. In other recent Planning Board business we have held hearings for similar minor changes on more controversial situations, so on one hand we want to be consistent, on the other, if it is legal to go for
it without the hearing, that is what the applicant would like.</div>
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Thank you for your advice,</div>
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<p><span style="font-family:Aharoni;font-size:10pt">Star Atkeson</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Aharoni;font-size:10pt">Secretary to The Boards</span></p>
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