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PlanningBoard | 2021-07-26 | 5 | Board Member Hom asked again about complaints and how those would be handled in the future. Ms. Asbury said they had always tried to reach out to people and to be available so complaints would not have to go through the Planning Department. She said they had hired a Sound Technician and now had the appropriate draping to mitigate the sound. They also had someone on-site with a decimal reader and it never went above 80-90 decimals which from her understanding was the same as what a vacuum cleaner put out. The music stopped at 8 pm and there was a Sound Technician on-site during events. She wanted to make this work for the neighborhood and was not sure what else they could do to mitigate the sound. Board Member Hom asked if the canopies and curtains to mitigate the sound had already been installed and if the fire department had confirmed those items had met fire safety requirements. Ms. Asbury said they reached out to neighbors and had mitigated everything they could. The fire department had come out and had approved what they had done. The only thing they were not able to do was close Taylor St which they wanted to do for sound mitigation. Board Member Ruiz asked a follow-up question to Ms. Asbury. She asked since due to the uptick in Covid and the Delta variant would she consider lowering the maximum occupancy load of the site to 220. Ms. Asbury said the 220 was based on a 5000 square foot lot and how many people could be accommodated according to the guidelines last year and 350 was based on the success and the lifting of restrictions. She said they would be happy to mitigate the occupancy as well and did not want all the good work to go aside. Board Member Xiomara Cisneros was still confused on the matter of how many amplified sound events were scheduled per weekend. She was thrown off by the dates in the staff report. She was concerned they were having more than 2 loud events per weekend as were outlined in the mitigation. Staff Member Wheeler explained how listing the events in the Use Permit was a way of giving everyone a head's up of when neighbors could expect amplified sound. She was not sure where Board Member Cisneros was seeing the two events. She pointed out that under item 3 they had the events allowed per week and it varied by month. Board Member Cisneros said it was under Exhibit 1, it stated: "live music concerts would be restricted to a maximum of 2 events per weekend or possibly 1 per weekend". Staff Member Wheeler said that was something developed on June 29th by the applicant but after going back and forth with them since then and working out dates that was no Approved Planning Board Minutes Page 5 of 21 July 26, 2021 | PlanningBoard/2021-07-26.pdf |