2002-08-01
City of Beverly, Massachusetts
Public Meeting Minutes
BOARD: Planning Board
SUBCOMMITTEE:
DATE: August 1, 2002
PLACE: Beverly City Hall
BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chairperson Richard Dinkin, Ellen Flannery, Robert
Rink, Patricia Grimes, Elizabeth McGlynn, Joanne
Dunn
ABSENT: Barry Sullivan, John Thomson
OTHERS PRESENT: Debra Hurlburt (Planning Director) and Leah
Zambernardi (Assistant Planning Director)
RECORDER: Jeannine Dion (tape)
Chairperson Dinkin calls the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m.
Dinkin states the purpose of the meeting is to review the report of the subcommittee of the
Master Plan Steering Committee and the Planning Board members appointed at the last
Planning Board meeting and take the appropriate action on the Master Plan as a whole.
Dinkin asks members of the subcommittee if they are in concurrence with the written
report that the Planning Board has before it. Patricia Grimes, Robert Rink and Joanne
Avallon respond that they are in concurrence. George Simon arrives and states he is also
in concurrence.
Dinkin asks members of the Master Plan Steering Committee, who were not members of
the subcommittee, if they are in concurrence. They respond that they are in concurrence.
Grimes: Motion that the Draft Master Plan as submitted by the Master Plan
Steering Committee be amended as follows:
Motion to amend 1 through 9 in the report of the subcommittee of the
Planning Board and Master Plan Steering Committee and that it be
amended according to that report, seconded by Flannery. All members in
favor. Motion carries.
Grimes: Motion that the Draft Master Plan presented by the Master Plan Steering
Committee and amended by the Planning Board be adopted as the Master
Plan of the City of Beverly provided, however, that the appendices that
accompany such draft shall be considered informational only and shall not
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be considered part of the official Master Plan of the City of Beverly,
seconded by McGlynn. All members in favor. Motion carries (6-0).
Dinkin states that the Master Plan has been amended and adopted and on behalf of the
Planning Board he thanks the members of the Master Plan Steering Committee. He states
it was a monumental task.
Adjournment
Flannery: Motion to adjourn, seconded by Dunn. All members in favor. No one is
opposed. Motion carries (6-0).
The meeting is adjourned.