Select Board packet for October 27th

Contents of the packet received Thursday, October 23rd for the Monday, October 27th meeting:

•  Agenda for the 10/25 meeting

•  Agenda for the 10/27 meeting

•  Motion sheet

•  Information regarding the alteration of premise application for Amherst Brewing Company (regarding its liquor license): recommended approval by the Police Chief, minutes of the July 2008 Amherst Brewing Company Board of Directors meeting discussing expansion plans, the ZBA Special Permit and decision allowing the expansion, a floor plan showing the existing and expanded space

•  Taxi License application

•  Information regarding traffic and parking plans for the construction phase of the Lord Jeffery Inn project:  a memo from the Town Manager to the Select Board describing the recommendation; a letter to the Select Board from Amherst College with a project map (turned out to be a letter regarding a different element of the project; the relevant letter and map were distributed at the 10/25 meeting as a correction;) a chart from the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission’s parking study (chart is page 12 of the PDF) regarding utilization of permit parking spaces in town; a copy of a Lord Jeff brochure describing the project

•  A draft warrant for a one-article Special Town Meeting, proposed for November 17th, to revise a covenant governing allowable uses of a property at 284 North Pleasant Street

•  An e-mail string related to the 284 North Pleasant Street issue

•  Information regarding Article 6 on the Fall Town Meeting warrant – proposed creation of a Municipal Housing Trust, decribing its formation, structure and powers

•  Information regarding Article 11 on the Fall Town Meeting warrant – regarding legal steps necessary to allow the Hitchcock Center’s expansion plans at Larch Hill: the language of the article; a copy of a brochure explaining the Hitchcock Center’s plans; a project concept document describing the plans in more detail, a site map; a letter from Town Counsel regarding the necessary steps for the Conservation Commission to take regarding the land (which, as Town conservationland, is under the Commission’s jurisdiction;) a copy of Mass. General Law Chapter 40, section 15A

•  Two special liquor license applications: one for a November 1st UMass event, and one for a November 8th Amherst College event

•  Draft minutes of the October 20th meeting

•  Three Citizen Activity Forms for committee appointments

•  Sheet with the 2008 and 2009 calendars

•  Notice of a filing of a ZBA decision approving a Special Permit for a Planned  Unit Residential Development on South East Street

•  An envelope containing a report from the Earth Policy Institute, proposing reduction of carbon emissions by 80% by 2020, and a CD titled “Bill McKibben on Deep Economy, Boulder, CO 3/26/07, on Global Warming; alternativereadio.org”

•   A memo to the Select Board from the Public Transportation and Bicycle Committee regarding its recommendation of support for the Commons Group proposal to facilitate bicycle and pedestrian safety, and detailing the committee’s concerns about same

•  A copy of the Zoning Bylaw, amended through May 2008