Multi-family developments are progressing in Marion, where the Select Board heard the case of Matt Zucker’s Route 6 Cottages development during its September 8 meeting. Zucker’s re-zoning request from Residence D (which he can build by-right) to Residence E, he asserts, will allow him to build the multi-family development that he believes the […] Read more »
Barnstable County is keeping a database for new innovative/alternative (I/A) septic systems, namely those that include denitrification technology across Buzzards Bay as far as Westport, and Marion Board of Health member Dot Brown wants Marion in on that action. Though Marion is part of Plymouth County, Barnstable County, she said, is focused on […] Read more »
Given an opportunity to address the newer members of Marion’s Planning Board during the September 7 Zoom meeting, developer Sherman Briggs attempted to get the message across that the town’s current bylaws are discouraging developers from putting forth the projects most needed by a community concerned with dwindling scenarios in which seniors can avoid […] Read more »
On August 31, the Tri-Town Selectmen met again to revisit and presumably vote for the Tri-Town cable television agreement with ORCTV and to accept the updated Old Rochester Regional School District agreement previously vetted during a July meeting. The combined boards represented by Jordan Collyer and Jodi Bauer from Mattapoisett, Norm Hills and […] Read more »
Renewable Energy Development Partners, LLC came before the Rochester Planning Board on September 7 in a first of what no doubt will be multiple meetings to hammer out details on a new solar array project proposed for Neck Road. Representing the developer for the Notice of Intent filing was Sarah Stearns of Beals […] Read more »
A Notice of Intent filed by Kenneth and Darla Parsons for the reconstruction and site plan of single-family house and garage at 27 Dexter Road was continued to September 8, but not before substantial discussion that brought out calculators during the Marion Conservation Commission’s August 25 meeting. At question was the 10-percent rule, […] Read more »
The Rochester Board of Selectmen’s September 7 review of the Special Town Meeting Warrant with Town Clerk Paul Dawson and the Finance Committee was swift and, without committee Chair Kris Stoltenberg in attendance, did not carry official FinCom recommendations. FinCom member Peter Armanetti attended via Zoom, as Board of Selectmen Chairman Brad Morse […] Read more »
On August 30, Mattapoisett’s Capital Planning Committee gathered after a two-month hiatus to continue its discussion of developing methods for capturing data on capital expense items for the purposes of assisting department heads and the Finance Committee. The data, which includes everything from vehicle asset tracking to evaluating funding for water and sewer projects, […] Read more »
Labor Day weekend festivities ended a bit too soon for a group of pleasure seekers when the boat they were cruising around Nye’s Ledge in Buzzards Bay began to take on water. Nye’s Ledge is located east of Ram Island and southeast of Antassawamock in Mattapoisett. Reports from the scene indicated the power […] Read more »
In the August 26 meeting of the Marion Zoning Board of Appeals, applicants Wael and Maria Bayazid were voted a special permit to reconstruct an existing non-conforming garage at 95 Allen’s Point Road. Citing less than 10 feet of separation from the house, Building Commissioner Scott Shippey explained that a fire wall is […] Read more »