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Salem Board of Appeal Re: Ernest J. Delpero
City of Salem, Massachusetts 15-19 Proctor Streets Salem
One Salem Green Original Hearing 9/9/81
Salem, Ma. 01970
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As a result of notice received concerninF the Board of Appeal
hearing for the above listed name and address, the Salam -Fire
Department, requests the following items to be placed on record.
1. As a result of furthur information received on this proposal.,
the Salem Fire Department requests that all prior approvals
be voided.
2. The petitioner shall be required to resubmit the proposed plans
to this office for furthur review.
3. It appears that the original plan did not have sufficient-
clarity in detail to permit our consideration of access for
emergency vehicles, especially with reference to the second
structure.
4, It is our recommendation that this appeal NOT be granted until
a furthur review of the plans are made by this office, and
a subsequent latter provided with our opinions.
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Respectfully submitted ,,,
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Captain David J. Goin .
ccs Building Inspector Salem Fire Marshal
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411r, Ernest J. Delpero, 13 Plains Rd. Ipswich, Mass.
(356-3244)
Form # 105
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GEORGE A. NOWAK
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CITY CLERI�.f)'Y.O� SALEM,Mll�dt�p.
JOSEPH M. CENTORINO - dN EMI ASS STEPHEN P. LOVELY
FRANCES J. GRACE
JOHN J. GIARDI ROBERT J. LE BLANC. JR.
ROBERT E. HEALEY GEORGE F. MCCABE
BRIAN T. O'KEEFE - JOHN R. NUTTING
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September 23, 1981
Lt. George Jeffrey
Police Traffic
Police Department
Salem, M 01970
Dear Lt. Jeffrey:
A pe mit has been applied for at the Board of Appeals to construct
10 Condo Units at 15-19 Proctor Street. Access will be one (1) 30 foot
drive directly after the Thomas Brophy residence at #25 Proctor Street.
Serious concern was shown at the.public hearing on September 9, 1981
by the nearby residents relative to the safety aspect of the proposed exit/
entrance.
Could you kindly view the site and send me your written comments on the
matter before October 6.
Sincerely,
FRANCES J. GRACE
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Salem Board of Appeal Re: Ernest J. Delpero
City of Salem, Massachusetts 15-19 Proctor Street; Salem
One Salem Green Hearing Date: Sept. 9, 1981
Salem, Ma. 01970
Sirs:
As a result of notice received concerning the Board of Appeal
hearing for the above listed name and address, the Salem Fire
Department, requests the following items to be placed on. record.
1. Plans reviewed for this,.project, include additional post-hydrants
fire department connection; standpipe in common stairway, smoke
.- (^ detectors per Chapter 1¢$, and Mass. State, Building Code and
are- subject to final stamped approval before constrution begins
2. Adequate parking is recommended per curt!ent zoning codes.
3 . A final inspection is required .prior to this office signing
the Certificate of Occupancy.
Respectfully submitted
Captain David J. Go in
cc : Building Inspector Salem Fire Marshal
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Form r 105
DATE OF HEARING SEPTEMBER 9. 1981
PETITIONER ERNEST DELPERO
LOCATION 15-19 PROCTOR STREET
MOTION: TO GRANT SECONDED
TO DENY SECONDED
LEAVE TO WITHDRAW e SECONDED_;: rp G
ROLL CALL ABSENT PRESENT GRANT DENY WITHDRAW
ANTHONY FEEHERRY
JAMES HACKER /
DOUGLAS HOPPER v
ARTHUR LA BRECQUE
JOSEPH PIEMONTE
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
EDWARD LUZINSKI
JEAN-GUY MARTINEAU
DISCUSSION & CONDITIONS:
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(517) 744-4799
IDJEAL FINISHING CO,
Contract Finishers
QUALITY FINISHING ON ALL TYPES OF LEATHER - -
55-61 Boston Street 41 Salem. Mass. 01970
September '9 , 1981
City of Salem
Board of Appeals
One Salem Green
Salem, Massachusetts 01970
Attention : . Anthony M. Feeherry, Secretary
Re : Petition of David Warner for . Special Permit for
Erection of Condominiums on Proctor Street in Salem
Dear Mr . Feeherry :
Please be advised that the Ideal Finishing Company, a
Massachusetts Business Corporation with an usual place of
business at 55-61 Boston Street , Salem, Massachusetts 01970 ,
wishes to place itself in opposition to the allowance of a
Special Permit for the erection of condominiums on Proctor
Street in Salem applied for by Ernest J. Delpero. (David Warner ,
owner) for the following .reasons :
1 . The blasting requisite to allow foundations and under-
ground garages will have a deleterious effect on. the machinery
and production schedules in our buildings .
Our production lines consist in part of five (5) or six
.(6) Peirlon strand conveyors which are stretched strands (120 in
number) which carry our unfinished product through the various
production lines . The setting off of explosives can cause these
taut strands to contract and pull the machines and conveyors right
out of the footings . The expense in breakdowns in the production
lines and the possible injury to one employee will not be tolerated.
2 . Proctor Street is a one-waystreet running from Boston
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Street Southerly and then Westerly along two (2) sides of the
property for which the Special Permit is sought. The problem of
ingress and egress with. ten (10) additional dwellings on or in
the rear of Proctor Street would have an 'untoward effect on traffic
and operation of fire apparatus in the event of a fire, or an
ambulance in the event of an emergency.
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There are presently three ( 3) businesses on Proctor Street
which require parking by semi-trailer trucks during daylight
business hours . The cabs , and. in some cases , the bodies of the
trucks project into the street at loading or unloading periods
and hamper the easy flow of traffic . The entrance to the pro-
perty for which the variance is sought is on a one-way street
and is surrounded by businesses on two sides as shown on the plan
filed with the application .
3 . Our Company has recently been mandated by the Common-
wealth of Massachusetts , Division of Environmental Quality
Engineering to erect a stack to precipitate any smoke or fumes
which ,are an essential by-product of our industry seventy-five
( 75) feet from the ground level of the street facing our property.
The topo filed with the Petitioner' s application shows from forty
(4'0) to fifty ( 50) feet above that and with a two and' a half (2;)
story building , if erected on the property, would be in line with
the top of the stack and the buildings , if erected, would receive
any residue from the stack or other business ' chimneys in the
neighborhood . We have spent literally thousands of dollars in
the: past year and a half and untold hundreds of hours of our
executive ' s time in order to bring this building up to and exceed-
ing present pollution control standards and we are in no position
to have this re-engineered to accommodate the whims of some deve
toper who will disappear when the buildings are built and leave
the unsuspective purchasers to wake up some day to the fact that
they have purchased a condo in a settled business district that
has existed for over one hundred (100) years . Our present main
building dates back to 1914 and has consistently been used as a
leather factory and leather finishing operation from that date to
the present time .
Certain executives of our company have purchased an adjacent
lot and building for parking and future expansion purposes , and
after an expenditure of that sum do not want or anticipate objec-
tions from people who may purchase Condos that have not been built
upon when our plans were initiated and subsequently put into
being ,
4 . The parking shown as underground parking on the sche-
matic filed with the Application does not conform to the parking
requirements set out under the applicable provisions of the zoning
code of the Commonwealth ..
5 . There is only one method of ingress and egress for
emergency traffic ( fire engines or ambulance) through a so-called
visitor' s parking lot . The layout with the usual space allocated
for each parking space and the sixteen (16) foot way dictated by
the zoning code is not in conformity therewith .
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6 . The allocation of space to hot-top areas is going to
increase the already impossible situation on Pope Street and
Proctor Street, which has consistently flooded since the Salem
Heights project was built and will leave this land no longer to
absorb water which it has done for years in its natural state .
7 One corner of the back portion of the building is. only
fifteen (15) feet from our factory as shown on petitioner ' s plan
and derogates from the zoning code in that it calls for a
seventy-five (75) foot back yard rear line under the purview of
the pertinent section of the zoning by-law under which the Special
Permit is sought.
Please record the opposition of this adjoining Pr,operty owner
to the application for a Special Permit and have this letter
reflecting that fact spread on the records of the Appeals Board.
IDEAL FINISHING COMPANY
By : �oC I�La Uo
President