know fingerprint on it okay Chris do I don't think the CRC has come up with a complete document yet they're working on it piece by piece I think they're going through the housing trust document bit by bit and putting their own stamp on it and um but if Doug thinks he has the document that he received a few months ago I'd be interested in knowing um you know maybe he could forward it to me and I can figure out yeah so so we have nothing here by just you know it's coming and I was just interested in how the board felt about you know being a group and you know voting on our comments on this or just doing it individually and sending it to the CRC um no how do how do folks feel about that Janet okay I think it might be useful to read the policy and have us discuss it together um I'm not sure and then I think it might be more efficient just for us to send our individual comments unless there's something issue we feel really strongly on because I always find those um I don't know that's I'm kind of 50-50 but I think I'd like to hear what other people think of the policy when we get it um but I don't know if we you know we might spend a lot of time saying this bullet this bullet when maybe we'll just send 20 small bullets or something I don't know Tom or excuse me Andrew first thanks Jack um and I think I may be confused because when we say we're waiting for something what is this draft provision 8 that we got in our materials the comprehensive housing policy yeah that looks like a more of a an abstract of it but there's a longer version but it lacks the implementation goals uh or some you know uh the measurable goals so there's like the back half of it isn't in the draft and so one of the comments was like this let's just look at the entire draft versus the front half which is the policy um I think you know John Ornick has been a proponent of having these measurable goals because you don't you don't want to achieve them unless you you know you put the goals out there so it's you know let's get this a much you know affordable housing out there within a particular you know time span and measure that and we've fallen short uh of what you know the conceptual goals were that have been laid out in the past but um so we so we are going to be receiving them that the full view shortly or I think that they are yeah they understand that they should just release the draft of everything and not just the policy even though they they feel a little bit more confident about the policy part versus the measurable um you know part of it so and then the question is do we provide comments for the full draft individually as a group is what do you recommend yeah yes and that's why I was just wondering kind of this kind of doing a straw poll yeah I think yeah I would I would probably agree with Janet I mean I think you know we need to review to individually come up with our recommendations and then you know perhaps we can review our recommendations together but it it's all going to begin with an individual review anyway and I think that there's value in in seeing what everybody thinks before we if we decide to come up with like a group consensus thank you um Tom Thanks Jack yeah I agree with um uh both Andrew and Janet I do I do think we need to have a discussion my sense is hopefully we can have some key items like benefits concerns questions similar to Mandy Joe that we may all share in common um it may come just naturally out of our conversation but if it doesn't then I do think it's probably more efficient for us to write up our own individual summaries with some kind of standardized format the way Mandy Joe and um so I forgot who the other person was uh that came from um town council so so I agree we do need to discuss um and and hopefully we can come to consensus but if we can't then I think we need to issue our own individual statements okay so you know at this point it's just a a heads up that this will be coming to us and I think it's a very important document for the town uh so no I hope we all can give it our give it our best in terms of promoting it and then Pam I'm I'm wondering if we uh when we were talking about the Amherst Hills that we skipped over uh Mr uh Master Alexis um um well I didn't hear you ask for a public comment I did not I did not but I didn't know that there would be any but I I'm sure that's can we go back um and revisit that in yeah something I think Chris is getting ready to speak no I'm not sorry but I think it would be good to hear from Mr. Master Alexis he's probably going to react to what I said or maybe he has further information okay hello Mr. Master Alexis hello everybody can you hear me yes all right great and first of all thank you very much Chairman Jensak for allowing me to speak here tonight I'll be brief I know it's been a long meeting here and uh first of all I just want to say I've been sitting here for three hours and I want to compliment you all on the careful consideration that you've given every issue that's come before the board it's been really interesting for me to watch so thank you for your service here and doing this okay um first of all I want to say that the road looks great our road looks great and I'm very happy about that so and I want to thank you for that okay and um uh the town engineer has been driving around uh every day that the road's been doing that and I haven't been watching it haven't been watching for him but we're all working from home and I see his little blue truck driving by and I want to thank you thank him for that but I want to just say this um make no mistake about this that this work was done in this neighborhood because the planning board put the moratorium on the building permits and the sewer gups okay which if we go through this which I'm not was a replacement for the initial um um requirements in the subdivision for the work to be done so I'm very happy that the developer did the work but I would ask the planning board to not remove the moratoriums on the sewer hookups and building permits until all the work in the subdivision is done so when all that work is done and your requirements the previous planning board put those requirements in this subdivision when that work is done then release those building permits and suing hookup moratorium and then the the subdivision will be complete and after one winter which I think is this winter the road can be offered to the town and the subdivision will be completed okay so that is what I'm asking for your consideration keep the hookups and the moratoriums on the sewer hookups and building permits until all the work is done that's all we're asking because it's been a 15 year subdivision it's taken until this point for the road to be done and we just want the work to be done I know there's another issue here that's not related to the planning board with regard to a lawsuit we're very comfortable defending that lawsuit as I represent the neighborhood here but please do what you need to do that all the work in the subdivision is completed okay and that's really and keep oversight of this project if you release the lots there's no incentive and no oversight for the developer to do the work and thank you for listening to me thank you Jim I have a question yes um I wanted to uh first of all thank Mr. Master Alexis for speaking tonight I wanted to ask him to call me so that I can have a phone call with him um and and talk about um moving forward but my question to him tonight is when he refers to completing the subdivision is he talking about completing the portion of the subdivision that is currently built or is he talking about completing the entire subdivision including the roadways that haven't been built yet well that's Jim I just want to say can you hear me um okay great thank you um you know Ms. Brestrup that's a conversation that I'd like to have with you because there is a entire road that is undeveloped with a gate on it and I don't think that it's necessary for us to complete that one not me but to Fino to complete that work before the moratoriums and sewer hookups are released but I'd like to know what the developer is planning to do with that road but I'm happy to call you and discuss this with you because you know we want to be reasonable about this and all we really want is our subdivision to be completed so I hope that answers your question but I'm happy to talk to you thank you okay should we talk tomorrow yes you can call me tomorrow all right great I'll give you a call thank you thanks Jim um so moving on to uh the last item in our new business uh which again it's 9 30 uh we had 20 minutes that I proposed for this but I I don't even know that I can do 20 minutes uh at this point but um I I just want to say you know congratulations in the CRC and Chris Brestrup for the the detail you know that's provided in this memo it's it's it's it's thorough and there's just a lot in there and we and we can see where Chris has been spending her time uh in a beneficial way so I just wanted to to to say that um but again we can do one round of comments and obviously this will be back on the agenda uh for the the next meeting so um we're talking about the the December 5th 2020 memorandum from the CRC with regard to zoning priorities uh recommendation so if folks want to speak to that now's the time Janet so I I asked you all to put this on the agenda because um as you know as you now know the CRC has recommended like eight to ten zoning changes some of them to happen within you know three months um after I guess town council if they approve um and I a lot of them are interconnected and they also sort of tie into changes in the dimensional table that is riddled with footnotes and kind of hard to follow um and so one of the reasons I asked to put on the agenda and it could be a preliminary discussion of is this like what happens with the planning board next like at the CRC meeting they were saying you know we're not going to write this zoning we look to the planning board in the planning department to work on that and then we also have that flow chart that procedures chart that we agreed to last June or May about how the CRC and the planning board will work together when there's some you know proposals on the table so I'm wondering like what's our next step as a board are we in that flow chart where we're going back and forth with the CRC we're doing our analysis and I just kind of wondered like what happens now um the other the other reason I really wanted to bring it to is that I thought the CRC was going to be doing a much deeper analysis of the zoning changes like their community impact review um which they have a very detailed process and policy for how they'll look at impacts on different communities on you know land and the whole thing and so like for me like when we're looking at zoning changes as a planning board or a town or anybody I think we really need to understand the changes like what what the existing zoning is and what the zoning the change means in terms of the number of lots the number of units what does build out look like on a lot what does build out look like in the area and there's like no pictures to this and some of this stuff could get very dense and very big particularly in outlying areas um and residential neighborhoods and I don't feel like I understand what that's going to look like or what the impact is and then um so I think we need to do that kind of analysis so we know what we're talking about um and then again looking at option side by side like I don't have any sense that CRC was comparing one option over the other and saying oh here's the problem here's some fixes this is what one will do with the other and what are the impacts pros and cons of each so I'd like to see any change that we have much less eight or ten have that kind of deeper look and then also as I say constantly and I will say constantly is that um the town residents need to know what's happening in the town like in general because we know we haven't you know what we do in one section impacts others but people who are directly affected need to know what's being proposed and so I I just what I want to see that kind of those three principles applied to these changes and I'm hoping that we'll take a deeper look and the planning department will take a deeper look so we can kind of offer that but I'm really wondering like where do we go from here Janet uh three principles what one is that we need to really understand as a community and aboard the changes what the existing zoning is and what the changes will be like in terms of the number of units affected the number of lots and what a build that would look like a one lot but over time in an area um I don't have any sense of that analysis or that I have no visual picture and then also we just need to the number second principle is really to look at option side by side and consider the effects when I started looking at some of the effects in the residential neighborhoods it was really concerning to me um you know how one foot now would be the other or and I could talk about that more specifically but I don't want to do it now and then also that the residents of the town need to be involved like they have to know that these changes are being proposed and be part of that process particularly if in the neighborhoods where people are most affected and that hasn't happened at the CRC level it's you know they like I thought they were going to do that like in this summer they said we want to talk about the priorities months ourselves and they ran that priorities process and I thought their plan was to take it to the community and get um get some impact input and then when I asked them when they're going to do that it turns out they weren't going to do that I had asked that question in the summer I thought it was going to happen because they said so and then I asked it again recently and they said they're not going to do that so that's it seems like a big missing hole that I'd love to see us kind of fill in a bit thank you uh Chris so um I think that what is going to happen is that the planning staff will draft some of these things and bring them to the planning board and with documentation like Janet is asking for and we did do some of this um as Janet said a number of years ago when some of these things were proposed so similar to the way we brought um zoning changes to town meeting with backup and analysis I think we will bring them to the planning board with backup and analysis and then the planning board can decide whether the the zoning amendment is ready to move forward to town council so I think there'll be a lot of um working together of the planning department and the planning board and that town council will be um interested in learning about these things and perhaps giving their support or making changes but it's mostly going to be planning department working with planning board to develop these these zoning amendments that's my that's my um prediction I should say did did the did the CRC know like about the the impacts how the the BL could change did they get all those numbers and information that you had because I think I think the 20 the memo that you wrote in 2016 I think all those numbers are worse because the units will be so much smaller not worse I guess that's a bad that's a judgment but it's it's going to be so much more and so I would like to see I'd like to you know get that I can't run those numbers I'm not that kind of person but did the CRC see that or analyze that in there the CRC didn't see that this was based on um lists of the planning board and the planning department have been working on for years about things that need to be worked on and so um the CRC hasn't gone into any any specific detailed analysis of these things and they're counting on us to present that information to them okay and if you'd like to forward that that memo that I wrote in 2016 to me I would be happy to receive it thank you yeah somebody sent it to me yeah okay well without any other comment from the board we can we can move on so I see no no hands raised and also from the the public I don't see anything so let's close that it will be back on the agenda for our next meeting and topics not reasonably anticipated 40 hours prior to the meeting for new business can't think of anything okay great um form uh A&R subdivision applications we have two of form A&R applications and we'd like to present them to you and Pam can bring up some pictures one of them is at the corner of um Harkness Road and Belcher Town Road and the other one is on East Pleasant Street and I don't know with which one Pam is going to bring up first whichever whichever one was in the packet I think the one that was in the packet was um I don't remember actually I've seen both of them more recently just whichever bring up one of them if you can yep I'm trying bear with me one second the one that was in the packet was Belcher Town in Harkness 142 Harkness Road here it is yep so Harkness Road is on the bottom of this drawing here actually this drawing is much is very useful because Belcher Town Road is the road that slashes through from northwest or actually from the upper left to the lower right Belcher Town Road is route nine Harkness Road is the one that goes north from there and the property that is surrounded by yellow is the property that's being proposed to me what is this happen to me every time you're flying around town aren't we hold on we're gonna try it again it's the late hour we're we're gonna finish soon Pam we're gonna go the old-fashioned way we're not gonna do this do it like this there you go Chris okay so that's the location and then can we look at the ANR plan Pam yes so the ANR plan in this case the orientation of the plan is different and Harkness Road is on the bottom of the page and Belcher Town Road goes from goes in a kind of upward direction angled up so what the what the landowner is trying to do here is create four lots out of one and you can see the lots demarcated lots one through four each one of them has the appropriate amount of lot area each one of them has the appropriate amount of frontage and they all have the building circle superimposed on them so we would be look and the other thing is that they've they've shown here that at least 20,000 square feet of these lots is upwind area so this has been reviewed by the Town Engineer and with your permission or authorization we would ask Jack to sign this on behalf of the planning board the signature means that this is not subject to subdivision control law in other words there's no roadway being created here subdivision would be a new roadway that's created and the new lots off that roadway these are frontage lots and they're being created off existing roadways so does anyone have any questions? Janet has a question? Janet? I can't really see it there's like a lot of swiggles and I'm not sure so are there any easements or wetlands or I can't I can't see what I'm really looking at I feel like I need some wetlands yep and I think you have this in your packet but maybe you didn't have didn't have the A&R plan in your packet that's right we hadn't scanned it by then so let's see let's take lot four over on the right lot four has a a line that looks sort of like a necklace and it goes from Harkness Road and it follows up towards the north the western property line and that's the wetland line and then there's a 50 foot offset from that which is essentially where a new house could be built so they're showing that a new house could be built kind of in the lower left hand corner of this property here they're also showing let's see if I can get I have the people in the way I have people in the okay so the lot would be 80,000 square feet and the upland area of that lot is 41,000 square feet so that is more than 20,000 square feet so that meets the buildable lot area requirement it meets the the zoning bylaw requirement I believe that is in the RLD zoning district and there's a requirement for 200 feet of frontage and that's why this circle here is 200 feet in diameter okay thank you the other lots like the one that's noted as lot one has 271,304 square feet and over four acres of upland so that qualifies with regard to upland as far as being a buildable lot it's in the RN zoning district which requires 120,000 linear feet of frontage so it is required to show a building circle of 120 square feet which is right here and they put the I think there's an existing house on the lot so they've located the building circle around the existing house I guess I have control here don't I this is the wetland line right here um and it's the 50 foot offset line I cannot see Chris's oh you can see my cursor okay well maybe Pam can show the I'm sorry I was writing notes at the same time where are you Chris on lot one can Pam show the um line oh there's the zoning line yes the RLD and the RN zone this is the way this is the wetlands nope the wetland is that little thing that looks like a necklace it's got like a long line and a little short that yeah that's the wetland line so things no west of that and north of that are well and then it shows a 50 foot setback line which is that dashed line that is parallel to the wetland line and everything um to to the east of that is um is considered to be upland so that's lot one and then there are two other lots here and you can scroll down a bit we can look at those what do you want to do Chris can you scroll to the south so we can see but not to the south to the east to the bottom of this drawing okay so um and and let me see the lot numbers lot uh three and lot two so your cursor is right near oh I see okay this is lot two yes and this one is lot three I see what you're saying yeah so now scroll up a bit so that I can see what um the surveyor has written about lot two and lot three why does it do that all right I'm going to have to um go over on the side and use that little scroll bar can you do that yep yeah so rather than sliding that square go to the bottom of the right hand side and click briefly on the arrow at the bottom oh that's right yep excellent okay so that's what you want me to do thank you yes that's perfect so lot three lot three is required to have 20 000 square feet um total so it has 35 000 square feet total and it looks like it has um 26 000 square feet of upland area and that um exceeds the 20 000 square feet that's required the little line there that looks like a necklace is the wetland and there's the 50 foot offset for um the buffer that needs to be respected where a house can't be built yep and there's a circle there that shows the building circle which again this is in the RN zoning district so the building circle is 120 feet in diameter and to the left of this is lot two which again has wetland in the upper left corner yep Pam is tracking it right now it has a 50 foot buffer zone against the wetland it has the 120 foot building circle and it is also in the RN zoning district and it's got um 61 547 square feet which exceeds the 20 000 square feet that's required and it um has 42 000 square feet of upland which exceeds the um 20 000 square feet that's required so all of these lots meet the zoning requirements and the 10 engineer has looked at these for other issues and um has not made any comments about this thank you for that exhausted it's too good that it's not like a custer because it could sort of get off the wetlands better but anyway this is not my land okay all right is everybody good with this and we'll help you guys jack to um sign this of course it's Johanna I have a quick question and maybe this is just a teachable moment but um I'm can you help explain like the building circle and what are the impacts in the building circle and why is it okay for a building circle to overlap with wetlands and buffer zones so uh the building circle is described in section 6.3 of the zoning bylaw it's a requirement of um of a of a lot that's created if you want to be able to build on a lot then you have to show the building circle and the building that you're going to construct has to be within that circle um it can be anywhere within that circle as long as it meets the setback requirements um in the case of lot four I do see that the building circle overlaps into the wetland and into the 50 foot um buffer zone but there's plenty of room left in the rest of the circle um for a house to be built so uh it doesn't matter that some of that building circle is overlapping into the wetland is that there will be some like who makes sure that the house doesn't get built in the wetland and that the wetland isn't disturbed during construction and all that so when um the developer or the homeowner comes to the building commissioner for a building permit the uh the inspectors and the building commissioner will look at this map and they will um they will know whether the building is proposed to be built in the proper location um so that's how they that's how they know the building commissioner and his inspectors take care of that thank you so much mm-hmm so I just I think it'd be a general concurrence we do we need to do a roll call for this nope as long as nobody objects okay I missed my hand I'm my hand oh sorry doc I'm so sorry I saw that a while back yeah yeah I guess I wanted to ask are there any limitations on curb cuts along her harkness road the uh parcel that's at the intersection with belcher town looks like it might be a little close to that intersection for a curb cut into lot two so I think that the town engineer has a policy of not allowing a curb cut within 75 feet of an intersection so it looks like that um where the building circle is is far enough back on the lot that um it would not be within 75 feet of that intersection okay thank you mm-hmm any other questions doesn't look like it um okay okay all right so let's move on to the next one yes so upcoming zba applications nope um we need to go through excuse me we need to go through another a and r that oh i'm sorry i'm sorry but chris did we get like a general consensus to endorse this one yes 20 20 104 okay all right so i will move us on hold on here's the next one 610 east pleasant street so the next one is located just north of eastman lane and tilson farm road which is in the vicinity of the north amherst fire station and the umass police station so um pam has outlined um part of this right lot in yellow this is an area where there's already an existing house and what the um property owner wants to do is combine the two lots one lot to the north and one lot to the south into um a bigger lot so in other words combining three lots into one um two of these lots are a little bit undersized in terms of their not in terms of their lot area or frontage but in terms of the way they're configured and so i think that neither the lot on the north nor the lot on the south could contain the appropriate size building circle there's sort of trapezoids so anyway if pam will show us the a and r now that would be helpful so this is the a and r map it's a little bit different from the other one that you saw it's not different surveyors have different ways of drawing these but in any event you can see the existing house on the big lot in the middle and then you can see the the dashed lines that represent the um the previous um lot line and i think there's a note on them if you can zoom in on this a little bit can you do that pam do you dare me to try yeah okay zoom in on this we may never get back it's all right keep going wait a minute i can't what's going on lot line is to be removed you see this right here is that what you were trying to read yes lot line to be removed and it says the same down below so those two lot lines are removed and the three lots are being combined into one uh lot that will be 3.12 acres in size and that's um more than is necessary for this zoning district i think this is r n do you have the application there with you pam i do not chris all right well in any event you can see that the two lots for to the north and south are appropriately sized for this zoning district which i believe is r n so when you put them all together they're more than uh big enough and there's um you can imagine that there could be a building circle where that building already exists that would be 120 linear feet in diameter um because each one of the smaller lots has a furniture that's 120 feet so do you authorize um mr gem sick to sign this plan Doug has his hand up yep i wondered whether we should anticipate another a and r coming down the pike that splits this new lot into into two lots i think you might anticipate that yep thank you any other comment okay i guess uh the you know um presumptive presumptive approval here um all right thank you okay so let's uh the next would be uh zba applications applications ham's got a handle on that no i don't have a handle on it but the zba is going to meet next on january 7 and they will take up um application f wide 20 21 11 for um to request a special permit to modify and already approve special permit um to in order to remove a condition condition number six that requires the single family house to be owner occupied and it's located at 180 summer street so that will be on january 7 and also on january 7 um they hopefully will be reviewing they hopefully will have received and will be reviewing a special permit application submitted by the town to allow for an oversized sign and now i'm having the same problem chris had and an off-site sign in residential zoning district which will be on the corner of 280 main street and triangle street so it will actually be on the property um the emily dickinson museum and this is potentially what the what the sign might look like there's going to be another part to this sign which is down below where it says town center and it will be a sign directing people to the entrance to the emily dickinson museum so another one down here yes that's right so that's going to be reviewed by the zoning board we believe on this 7th of january january that's it for me just planning board feel um that they would like to have a presentation about either of these projects mr mcdukel has this hand right yes andrew yeah maybe a question for tom is this is this an example of the weight the new wayfinding signage that that i've been hearing about or chris yeah so um that would precede me okay all right so there is there is a system that's being rolled out and this does look like the language that's in some of the documents that i've seen um but i haven't seen the whole system deployed and yeah and that's coming back to the board and probably around the same time so yes this is part of that weight finding system none of the other signs are as big as the one that's going to be installed on the emily dickinson site um the reason for that is that emily dickinson museum agreed to have the town sign located on their property in exchange for having the um emily dickinson sign down below and that's what made their the sign on that property very large and um and that's the only one that actually needs a land use permit because the other signs are all in the town right of way and you can get a sense of what these signs look like by um going by this the roundabout at the intersection of triangle street and east pleasant street although um these new signs are going to be different the the brown of the main part of the sign is darker the band below is um green rather than a sort of yellowish color and um we think that they're better looking but that's that's my opinion and i think that was the opinion of the designer view board great thanks for the extra info mr marshall also has his hand raised dog yeah i'm just wondering whether the arrow to town center is accurate for this sign and if so why it's not telling people to continue on on main street straight ahead i think that the sign that's going to the zba has an angle to it so it's angling up to the left it's not going straight to the right so left so this sign is kind of a generic sign part of that system we don't have a picture of the sign that's going to be presented to the zba because we don't have the correct arrow direction and we also don't have the um the band down below with the emily dickinson museum sign on it but if you'd like us to bring you that one back we'd be happy to do that i don't need you to okay great um that's it for the zba yep okay so we can go on to uh upcoming spp sprs u b applications um there are always things out there in the wings but nothing has come in recently so um you know we're always talking to people about projects if they have in mind but nothing has been submitted very good uh punning boring committee and lia is on reports uh pioneer valet planning commission we had a regional meeting what on the 10th of december um we're going to be looking at the the top 10 resolves for the pioneer valley planning commission district um and then they they spoke to the uh the direct local technical assistance grant that that chris you know mentioned earlier how you know they're there to support uh the municipalities and their jurisdiction um i think some mention of the housing crisis in our area was made by kathryn roddy um and and then a little bit about what's going on in beacon hill some environmental justice issues and that's that was about it so that's all i have um onto the cpac andrew thanks jack um we had uh wrapped up sort of our five-week sprint of meetings here in proposals um there were 13 that we started with we ended up approving 12 one of them is sort of deferred it didn't uh it didn't meet the criteria for cpac i think i'd mentioned previously that the state match was was larger than expected this year which added an extra 300 000 to uh to our pool um so those projects have been submitted to town committee uh town council um and uh yeah i was hoping we'd have the last minutes available in case there's any questions about specific projects they don't have that at the ready but can can speak to any of them if you'd like in more detail at the next meeting or you know if you want if you have questions about any of them now i can i can answer any that i remember off the top of my head but it was a it was a very good exercise um happy to be part of that and it was i think you know lots of excitement for the projects that we had and it really was a diverse pool as is required but nonetheless still a nice diverse pool of projects which will impact the town positively well thanks for taking that on andrew um and we have the ad commission oh sorry i'd like to report that it's snowing ah i'm in my basement so i have no idea with no windows uh i knew it was coming um so the ad commission dug are you appointed yet or or what yeah well it seems like i can start participating but they haven't had any meetings so okay no action all right thank you and the design review board tom um yeah we had a few items that came up we had a meeting yesterday um one was just that the cares act um is asking for these signage systems uh that we talked about um information about um covid preparedness within amherst um these were required to be installed by the end of the year which was not something that was apparent to them at the time so um we had an emergency meeting to make sure that those are approved and those go through so those should be installed by the end of the year um with some like i said covid preparedness information and then the other thing that popped up was um approving another uh an outdoor space for the spoke restaurant on east pleasant street they are taking over the amherst copy space that was there and it's expanding all the way along my goodness outdoor patios and they're going to take over the third one and put up potentially a new sign there so just some exterior modifications uh which were all approved that'll be the whole building now right yeah yeah that used to be like a subplace yeah it was the best subplace i know i loved it my healthy portions yeah all right thanks tom um and then the zoning subcommittee is um i'm not sure why that's on the agenda but do we need new members rhea at some point okay so reported the chair i would uh say that the next meeting um we're going to have someone from the piner valley planning commission that actually is an amherst resident doug hall douglas hall uh and he has been doing amazing work with regard to the you know database kind of review of the effects of covid and what we would expect the impacts to be long term and the town council are invited to join us for that presentation but it's very informative and kind of gives us a perspective of what what's next uh through this um and again i i hope you all appreciate it but that'll be in our next meeting january um jack i believe that's january 20th isn't it oh january 20th yeah so not the next meeting oh two meetings from now okay yeah yeah um and basically that yeah that's that's all i have uh in chris well i spilled the beans earlier about the um lack of appeal on the amherst media that was going to be my report of staff okay i couldn't wait to tell you and i hope great but hey i i wish everyone uh you know happy hanukkah mary christmas happy new year we we're doing good work and and and chris uh and pam appreciate everything you guys do i mean it's thank you so much on your plate i understand thank you so um holidays to everyone yeah happy holidays holidays and happy new year new year new thing happy new year 2021 let's flip the page it was an exciting year too exciting yep it's a good word jack exciting we had we had to learn a lot of new things and we had to learn to be on the fly right chris we did we did did but you know what now we can work from home during the snow day tomorrow but that's not fair no more snow days and we didn't cancel the planning board meeting because of snow either so i hope it's very good all right we'll see you all next year stop recording


I think it's for all the new subs, dude. Ooh, here it is, dude. Feels strong, man. Do you guys like this? I think this is good. Dude, do you guys remember this, man? Saturday morning, you'd watch cartoons. Cartoons are over. You plug in your Super Nintendo, start playing some Donkey Kong Country. Those were the days, man. Those were the days. Now we just play video games all day, every day, and we just let go of our responsibilities. It's great. While our lights go to mess. Here it is. Boomer month number one, chat. Congo Jungle, Jungle Hygienes. Dude, I have not played this game in years, years. Ramshaal, thank you for the 16 months, dude. Thank you, man. Okay, so I set this up a little bit on stream right before Dare package earlier. Okay, was, oh. So, look at that, dude. I already got the checkpoint. Is Diddy Kong faster than Donkey Kong? This game looked amazing for the time that it came out. Oh, yeah, look at the Rhino, dude, already. Look at this, dude. I already get the Rhino. Oh, wait, wait, wait, no, no. Isn't there something here? They all use Diddy in the speedruns? Oh, okay. See, I use Donkey Kong for the character immersion, dude, big beefy. I like that. There it is. First level complete, dude. Just like that, dude. Hey, chat, they just don't make the games like they used to, chat. Isn't there like something here? I thought there was something here. Wasn't there like a, I thought there was something here. Oh, it's bananas. Dude, it's been so many years since I've played this. There's all, like this game has so many like weird like secrets and different barrels and things that just like shoot you halfway across the map. Is there something down here? Oh, there is. Uh, is there a, oh, I remembered. Look at that. I love the music in this game, dude.  This is one of the best songs in all video games ever. Is there, where's the, there's a secret here somewhere. Like water levels kind of suck, but as far as the music goes, it's, it's literally one of the best songs in any video game ever. Oh yeah. Dude, I started this level and I like automatically did that. I didn't even think about it. What the heck? Can't you just, hey, I'm candy con. It's just a yolk. Is this a speed run? No, absolutely not. Oh, frick. You have to hit these guys three times, right? This is gonna be easy. And remember this like, oh frick. How many times do I have to hit them? Five times. Nice. Mr. Show. Nice, there it is. Was this the best way to do this? The most proper method? I always thought this was the best way. Okay. Minecart's carnage. Here we go, chat.   Ready? I could probably do this with my eyes closed. Okay, I lied. Actually, I got scared.  Lichen, thank you for the Twitch Prime, man. What, what? I didn't even move. Wait, is it, it's stuck. What, okay, really?   You killed him. Why did it automatically? So much slower. I remember it. Okay, look at that, dude. Do you guys like the moves, chat? You guys, oh frick. Okay, good.   Oh, that was close, dude. Honeycomb, now it's a good time to save what you've gotten to. 17%, yeah, how is this game gonna take me 12 hours, chat? Fancy a flight, DK, dude? You know the score. Hop in, total. I tail it. Okay, well, I'm not gonna do that. Oh, that was close. You just resoped for 11 months, DK, watch out. Wait, what the frick? The frick, what was that? This is intense, dude. Oh, very good. Okay, that was really bad. Look, my lives are fine, chat. I have plenty of lives. I've been forming lives the entire game. Oh, oh, bonus bananas. Ready for it, chat? Watch this. Oh, the skills. Still talking to yourself, huh? Check out the jungle. I'm sure you'll find your buddy. Let's screw this up. No way. How did I pull that off, dude? So it's kind of weird how that works, right? A lot of times it's not necessarily about like the amount of pixels that you see. It's about the graphic style, the art style. Oh, how am I supposed to? Wait, what? Do you like Baldur's Gate? No, I didn't. People keep asking me that, too, because Baldur's Gate, three announcements. Dust Highest became the tier three S-Fan, yeah, cock. Dusty, thank you for the tier three, 25 months, dude. Okay, no, we're not gonna save state.  Is there a secret down there? Dude, oh no. I forgot all about this one. This is gonna be so bad.  Oh my gosh. Did you guys not see the, did you guys not see the rope? Did you guys not see the rope? The rope was right there, I jumped for it. Is that real? My childhood is ruined. I can't see, I can't see, I can't see, I can't see. Oh my gosh, dude, I was so... Okay, chat, you ready? Last boss. Here it is, dude. Just like that. Just like that, guys. The game is over. That's how it works, chat. Oh, Frank. Oh, Frank. I actually knew that happens. I just... Score solo just resubbed for six months. Yah, yah. Sir. There it is. Well, donkey, my boy.  You've made an old band proud. Go look in your horn, and I think you'll be in for a surprise. If I had been playing, I'd have found everything. I'm sure there must be some bonus rooms you haven't found. That's a lot of bananas. I'm recording these two to put them on my other YouTube channel, so I'm gonna go ahead and stop the recording. Chat, everybody say bye, YouTube. Guys, thank you so much for watching. This is a really good, super fun game. The last level was really tilting to me. I did not like that. But other than that, this game is awesome. I love it. One of my favorite games ever. Totally withstands the test of time.