The Conservation Commission at its Tuesday night meeting expressed approval with major modifications to two ongoing projects: Connelly Farms and The Trails, Hopkinton. Scott Goddard, representing Ravenwood LLC and developer Ron Nation, told the commission that “a...
The Conservation Commission met for nearly four hours Tuesday night and approved modifications to projects previously before the commission, including a lot on the Connelly Farms project as well as and the Leonard Street development. Scott Goddard, representing...
The Conservation Commission at its Tuesday night meeting continued the hearing on the Leonard Street three-lot subdivision project because of ongoing drainage and erosion control issues. Lou Petrozzi of Wall Street Development Corporation told the commission that...
The Conservation Commission at its Tuesday meeting issued an enforcement order on violations at the Leonard Street subdivision project, which over the past two months has been chastised for poor erosion control measures that allowed flooding on the site. The order was...
The Conservation Commission on Tuesday night approved a request for reconsideration for the final lot of the Chamberlain Street-Whelan Road project and continued the hearing until Oct. 19. The proposal to build a house Lot 12 was rejected by a 3-2 vote at the July 13...
At Tuesday’s meeting the Conservation Commission made headway on several ongoing proposals, which were either approved or are near the approval stage. Fines were assessed on two projects for failure to comply with stormwater mitigation procedures. The Trails at Legacy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Kh4RMHWS8&list=PL8WekT6kxX1DmkTpFVZzz_GPcj_U0_BLN&index=1 The Conservation Commission met Tuesday night and reviewed several ongoing projects and a new proposal. The commission first discussed the mitigation efforts recently...
The Conservation Commission at its Tuesday meeting rebuked two projects for allowing violations that caused flooding and instability on their sites. A cease and desist order was filed against The Trails, Hopkinton, a 55-and-over housing development located off Legacy...
The Conservation Commission at its meeting on Tuesday approved several lots on the Chamberlain/Whalen project and imposed fines on a Legacy Farms housing project. The majority of the projects on the agenda were continued until June 22. Also, the six notice of intent...
The Conservation Commission debated a number of projects during a lengthy meeting on Tuesday night. The meeting was shortened because a key project, the renovation of the Massachusetts Laborers Training Facility at 37 East St., had been removed from the agenda because...
Eight-year-old Aanya Soni loves taking walks with her dad and her dog, hoping to catch a glimpse of her favorite animal, a turtle. “They’re very cool to me,” she said. But some of her turtle sightings have been troubling. She was sad to see some of her beloved turtles...
The Conservation Commission heard a number of issues at its three-hour meeting on Tuesday, ranging from updates to the Chamberlain/Whalen project to trails creation. Several major items were continued to the meeting on May 25. Requests had been received before the...
The Conservation Commission met for four hours on Tuesday night to consider a variety of projects, the highlights of which are included below. Laborers' Training Academy expansion A notice of intent (NOI) was filed by the Massachusetts Laborers' Training Trust Fund...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C9XVmo43KY&list=PL8WekT6kxX1DmkTpFVZzz_GPcj_U0_BLN&index=1 The Conservation Commission met for nearly 3 1/2 hours Tuesday to discuss a number of issues, the most prevalent being those concerning the property on the...
The Conservation Commission at its meeting Tuesday continued several subdivision requests on the Chamberlain Street/Whalen Road parcel until April 6, requesting in each case that the work be moved further away from the buffer zone boundary. The property is where...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8ARJWPaovY The Conservation Commission at its meeting on Tuesday voiced support for Grasshopper Energy to start clearing a limited number of trees as part of its plan to construct a 2.4 megawatt solar array off Wilson Street, but held...
Representatives for the developer of the proposed Elmwood Farms III residential subdivision off Blueberry Lane appeared before the Conservation Commission at its meeting Tuesday night, looking to move forward a project that was first introduced more than three decades...
At Tuesday night's Conservation Commission meeting, the commission unanimously ruled that a Lumber Street couple who had two forestry cutting plans approved by the state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation could not remove trees to access one of the desired...
At last Tuesday’s Conservation Commission meeting, the commission voted to approve the Department of Public Works’ request to conduct the triennial 8-foot drawdown of Lake Maspenock in an effort to kill weeds at the bottom of the lake, despite concerns related to the...
The Conservation Commission, at its Tuesday night meeting, approved under the town bylaws a proposal from developer Lou Petrozzi, president...
