Residents delivered concerns to a packed room at a public hearing for a proposed subdivision and conditional use permit for an Old Pound Road property at the Antrim Planning Board meeting last week.
The parcel in question covers 80.5 acres between Old Carr Road to the east, and Craig and Reed Carr Roads to the west. The owner, Clark County Holdings LLC. applied for a conditional use permit and an eight-lot subdivision on Sept. 11.
Planning Assistant Ashley Brudnick-Destromp said 16 people signed in to the meeting but there were more than that in the room, and many of the attendees were landowners of adjacent properties. She said most of the concerns had to do with the proposal’s conditional use permit for wetland access, as residents reported that the property’s wetlands been damaged following a 2017 logging event. Brudnick-Destromp said the applicants stated their intention to improve and restore the wetlands to their original functioning. It was determined that the property drains toward Steels Pond.
Other attendees voiced concerns about problems with water flow and ice on the driveways that would service the subdivision. The police and highway department recommended that driveways have clear lines of sight at their intersection with the main road.
Brudnick-Destromp said Conservation Commission chair Peter Beblowski would walk the site with the applicant and planning board members that had not seen the property on Oct. 8 to discuss the concerns about potential impacts to the wetland.
She said that public and applicant comment is now closed for the proposal, and the board would deliberate the proposal at their Oct. 17 meeting.