Special Board of Aldermen 04-27-2021 Page 2
Chairman O’Brien
Thank you Madam President. Before us this evening is a public hearing of street re-numbering petition for 5 Berkshire
Street, Sheet 61B/Lot 30 and Sheet 61B/Lot 29. To the public that has joined us tonight, the way we traditionally do
things, | will call for testimony in favor and after receiving all testimony in favor | will then call testimony in opposition.
At the conclusion of that, | will recall additional testimony in favor from those that may or did not have a chance to
speak. However if misinformation was given or something, | will allow for additional testimony and in the same, | will
call again testimony in opposition. May | point out, the main thing here is we’re in search of information on this
particular item. We want you to communicate to us but at the same time this is not to debate the issue but provide us
more information so we can decide as a committee appropriately.
President Wilshire
Alderman O’Brien, one second, is there someone that can tell us why this is necessary — this street re-numbering.
Chairman O’Brien
| see a hand raised by Mr. Steven Auger.
Steven Auger, Project Manager for Hayner & Swanson
For the record, my name is Steve Auger. | am a Project Manager with Hayner & Swanson and our office is located at
3 Congress Street here in Nashua. | thought I’d give you kind of just a quick history of the permitting approval process
that we’ve gone through for this subdivision. It will show how we arrived at this point. I’m here representing Forcier
Contracting and Building Services. Ms. Jessica Forcier is attending the meeting tonight. She’s in the lower left part of
your screen. She can speak for Forcier Contracting if the need arises. We're before you seeking to initiate the
address approval process for our two lot subdivision located at 5 Berkshire Street.
Very quickly, it is Lot 29/Map 61B. It is .28 acres in size. Itis inthe RA Zone. We have residential abutters to all four
sides. We first appeared before the Zoning Board of Adjustment back in October 13!" where we were approved for
four variances — two per lot and we appeared before the Planning Board on March 18 where we received conditional
approval of the one into two subdivision. One of the conditions of that approval is we have to go through the address
assignment process.
Very quickly when we submitted through the planning process, the Fire Marshal’s office told us that there was no
address left for a subdivision in this care. Right now, I'd like to share my screen. It will make things a little clearer as
to what I’m talking about. So this is the first sheet of the subdivision plan and you can see where we're proposing the
two lots. This tract as a whole is currently 5 Berkshire Street. If anyone has driven by, it’s a large storage building
there right now which the Forcier Contracting plans on removing that and in its place constructing two single-family
homes one on each lot. As | said, our address is 5. This abutting lot right here where | have the cursor, that has an
address of 3 and the lot right next to it on the other side has an address of 7. As the Fire Department explained to me
during the address assigning process at some point in the past, there was no address left for potential for a future
subdivision. The Fire Department does not have the authority to make the determination of what the additional
address that we'll is obviously one of the lots can re-use 5 Berkshire Street.
So we submitted to the Planning Department to kick off the aldermanic process. The Address Committee has
reviewed it. They have offered their findings in a Memorandum to you folks. The one they are recommending is to re-
number 7 Berkshire Street to make that 9 and then this lot here with have an address of 5 Berkshire and this would
have an address of 7. If that is not the decision, then an alternative they are offering is to leave 7 Berkshire Street as
7, make this lot 5 Berkshire Street, and then number out of order and make this lot 9 Berkshire Street. | have spoken
to my client’s the Forciers about this and for what it’s worth, our opinion is we would much rather see the latter option
where this lot gets 5 Berkshire and this one gets 9. | certainly know that’s numbering out of order but the last thing we
want to do is cause Mr. and Mrs. Knapp any burden of having to change their address as a result of this project. At
this time I’d be glad to answer any questions that the Board might have.
Chairman O’Brien
| cannot see any hands up because I’m on a smaller screen but if anybody has a question, please speak if as far as
the Aldermen.
