Overlook Acres Presentation for May 7 Planning Board Meeting

The Planning Board will be continuing the Public Hearing on permitting for Overlook Acres, LLC on Thursday May 7 at 7:00 PM. The project is the second on the agenda for Thursday night.

The presentation materials can be found below, in case you need to reference them during the meeting. The meeting will be over Zoom and will also be shown live on Channel 22. Please read through the instructions at the beginning of the agenda for information on how to use the “Raise Hand” feature on your computer or on your phone. There will be a practice period 15 minutes before the start of the meeting so that the public can familiarize themselves with this feature. This will allow a much more efficient public comment period for each project hearing.

As always, public comment and questions can be submitted before the Planning Board meeting. If possible, especially if there are questions, please email your comments/questions to mwells@salem.com, tdevine@salem.com, overlookacre@gmail.com, and pmorsillo@salem.com. This will ensure that your comments and questions are received by the Planning Department for inclusion in the public hearing, by the developer, and also by me so that I can track questions and make sure things don’t slip through the cracks.

This is the Submittal Summary for the Planning Board for Thursday’s meeting:

The following are Drawings submitted to the Planning Board for Thursday’s meeting:

There is also a detailed Tree Report. This and all of the above reports are available in PDF versions. Send me an email if you are interested in receiving one or more.

The following is the Executive Summary from the Tree Report:

“In April 2020, the Bartlett Inventory Solutions (BIS) Team from Bartlett Tree Experts conducted an inventory of trees on the Barnes Rd site in Salem, MA. We identified 76 trees which included 9 species. The attributes that we collected include tree latitude and longitude, size, species and condition class.

We conducted the attribute collection using a sub-meter accuracy Global Positioning Satellite Receiver (GPSr) device with an error-in-location potential of not greater than three meters. Our recommendations for the subject trees are based on the number of desired management cycles. All tree work activities will comply with current American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z133.1 requirements for safety.”