Meeting Agenda

                    Newbury Conservation Commission

  November 8, 2022 ~ 7:00 p.m.

 Meeting at Newbury Vet’s Hall

​​​ ​​Agenda

Administrative Business: -Minutes Sept.& Oct

Intent to Cut: 0 

Tree Applications in Protected Shoreland:

​*Robert Vail 83 Maila Terrace

DES:

*Shoreland Standard # 2022-03016 John&Stacy Hatem 295 Bay Pt.​​Improve stormwater runoff along steep driveway by removing boulders and adding infiltration trench.  Extend drip infiltration trench from building and add natural planting s as mandated by zoning board of adjustment. UNDER TECHNICAL REVIEW. 

*Shoreland Standard #2022-02878Lyndia&StevenGarrant 50 Pine Cliff

Impact 5,411 square feet of protected shoreland in order to add additions to the home and relocate the existing driveway for a total new impervious area of 919 square feet (net).Impervious Surface Percentage Approved:  28.6%

Natural Woodland Area Required per RSA 483-B:9, V, (b):   0 square feet 

Permit Approved

Communications:

*From Barbara Richter The Sutton Conservation Commission invites you to: MANAGING CONSERVATION LANDS & PUBLIC FORESTS IN A TIME OF CLIMATE CHANGE. November 17, 2022, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM This discussion will present the major challenges faced by New Hampshire forests in this century and review different approaches that towns overseeing public lands and private conservation landowners can take to increase their forests’ resiliency throughout the upcoming decades.

*Flash on the Beacon (LSPA) website: https://www.lakesunapee.org

*Filmmaker Ray Asselin has just released the film The Forgotten Forest Primeval - Rediscovering Mount Sunapee's Old Growth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beytGX2dORI

*Magazine: New Hampshire Town and City Magazine, November-Dec.2022 by New Hampshire Municipal Association/ Please check it out. 

https://issuu.com/newhampshiremunicipalassociation/docs/final_nhma-t_c_n...

*Carsey School of Public Policy

Old Business:

​*Conservation  Workshop

​​+(40 acres on Mt. Road)

​*Bubbler Workshop

​*Shoreland Review Proposal- Update-Katheryn

​*John Magee- update on Warner River Watershed​

New Business: 

​*For discussion:

​​*“Saving Lake Sunapee Watershed”

​​*Citizens of the United States own nearly all of Mount Washington, home to the largest tract of alpine tundra east of the Mississippi River. New Hampshire citizens own the 60-acre state park at its summit. The Cog Railway and the Auto Road own thin strips from the mountain’s base to its summit.

https://indepthnh.org/2022/10/24/op-ed-who-speaks-for-mt-washingtons-fra...