On February 24, the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission faced a three-page agenda that contained five Requests for Determination of Applicability, three Notice of Intent filings and a variety of other action items. One NOI that will require further study and review was filed by Scott Snow for property located at 27 Nashawena Road. Snow’s representative, Rich […] Read more »
Marion’s Master Plan Implementation Committee met on February 20 to discuss recent developments in the town and to talk about increasing its own profile. Present were committee members Jack Boesen, Norm Hills, Steve Kokkins, Chris Collings, Nancy McFadden, Cindy Callow, and Kristen Saint Don-Campbell, along with Town Planner Gil Hilario and, on conference call, Jennifer […] Read more »
With an AAA bond rating holding firm, Mattapoisett’s Board of Selectmen signed $11-million general obligation bonds on February 24, bonds facilitated by Unibank Fiscal Advisory Services. Meeting with the selectmen was Brianne Susel of UFAS and the town’s Treasurer, Kristie Costa. Costa explained that 10 projects would be funded through the $11,718,500 in bonds. Those […] Read more »
On February 21, the Mattapoisett Bike Path Committee held its regularly scheduled monthly meeting, something it has been doing for nearly 30 years. And the work continues, work that includes pursuing easements, rights-of-way, working with state and federal entities, meetings with attorneys or with local department heads as well as abutters. The committee volunteers are […] Read more »
With a light agenda for its February 25 meeting, the Rochester Planning Board was able to informally discuss a number of projects in various stages of permitting including six solar-array development projects. Chairman Arnold Johnson said that Seaboard Solar was still submitting revisions to the plan of record even though the project’s hearing had been […] Read more »
The Marion Board of Selectmen’s February 24 Informational Meeting at the Music Hall in Marion was originally meant to give the public its chance to respond to two issues: curbside trash pickup and the town’s new pavement-management plan. The meeting’s agenda was expanded to include presentations and question/answer sessions on other topics including: a new […] Read more »
Tabor Academy Head of School John H. Quirk is on leave of absence for the remainder of the school year, per an agreement as reported in a February 18 letter from the Marion-based prep school’s Board of Trustees to the Tabor community. The board had announced on February 14 that Tabor will retain Quirk after […] Read more »
The February 18 meeting of the Rochester Conservation Commission once again plowed through technical details of complex projects. Piles of engineered drawings and stacks of letters and associated documents were reviewed as applicants fielded questions and asked for continuances. Repurpose Properties, LLC represented by Brian Wallace of J.C. Engineering came before the commission following the […] Read more »
Technicalities regarding the application of a special permit in addition to a variance highlighted one of two continued cases before the Marion Zoning Board of Appeals at its February 13 meeting, but the stickiest subject was the letter that the ZBA received from the Assessor’s office regarding a new $50 fee being charged the ZBA […] Read more »
For over a year, an age-related residential subdivision has been wending its way through the permitting process in Rochester. Long hearings with both the Conservation Commission and the Planning Board, site visits, engineering modifications, peer reviews, and continuances have been required by town officials to satisfy their questions and concerns in what will be a […] Read more »