The forces of evil are once again massing. I'm just wondering if we as a Town, in this instance, can maintain higher standards than what the State would set.
-- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:15:42 -0500 From: Deb Cleveland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Zoning hearing notice Thought this might be of interest to those on the list: Subject: [massplanners] Hearing Notice for Title V Changes Acting Governor Swift recently met with the Homebuilders Association and as a result, instructed DEP to change the Title V regulations to allow 60 minute per inch perk rates and increase the loading to the systems. This will create a situation where land will become developable that was previously undevelopable. When these systems fail, which they will in several years, communities will be faced with either providing sewer (which many communities either don't have or don't have additional capacity) or the homeowners will incur huge costs for on-site package treatment facilities (which they will get tired of paying the electric bills for and demand sewer). So far, very few people seem to be aware of these proposed changes. Please forward this public hearing notice to your board members and other town departments and boards and encourage their on November 20th. Help DEP to recognize the need to reconsider this proposal and drop it. PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Department of Environmental of Protection will hold a public hearing on proposed amendments to 310 CMR 15.000, the State Environmental Code, Title 5, promulgated pursuant to G.L.c. 21A, s.13. The Department is proposing to increase the allowable percolation rate for on-site subsurface disposal systems and specifically seeks public comment on the appropriate effective date for such change to occur. The hearing will be held as follows: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 @ 1:00pm Department of Environmental Protection One Winter Street, 2nd Floor Washington Street Boston MA Persons planning to give oral testimony at the hearing are encouraged to also provide a written summary. Written comments on the proposed revisions to 310 CMR 15.000 by any person may be submitted to the Department before, during, or after the hearings, but no later that December 6, 2002, when the hearing record will close. Requests for copies of the proposed revisions, or questions about the hearings should be directed to 617-292-5673. Public comments on the proposed regulations should be addressed to Sharon M. Pelosi, Director, Watershed Permitting Program, DEP, One Winter Street, Boston MA 02108. BY ORDER OF: Lauren A. Liss, Commissioner Department of Environmental Protection ------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body "unsubscribe frambors" (the subject is ignored).
