Planning Board

Planning Board approves Eversource hazardous tree removals on scenic roads with conditions. Chair Tricia Kendall and members Deepa Venkat, Anna Tesmenitsky, Scott Pelletier, and Paul Montesino (remote) voted unanimously to permit removal of 46 dead trees from Howe and Cross streets, conditioned on

Planning Board approves Implementation Committee process, advances housing plan. The board, sitting jointly with the Select Board, voted 10-0 to approve a process to establish a seven-to-nine member Comprehensive Plan Implementation Committee, with member and candidate names due to both boards by

Ashland Planning Board unanimously approves ANR for Ballard Road-Highland Road subdivision. Attorney Jason Panos, representing the Depietri Group, told the board that nine buildable lots comply with a newly enacted state law requiring minimum lot sizes of 10,000 square feet and 75 feet of frontage;

Ashland Planning Board continued three public hearings and advanced a proposed zoning amendment allowing in-law apartments as an accessory use. Chair Tricia Kendall and four board members voted unanimously to continue the Ballard Road/Highland Road ANR and the Memorial Drive YMCA hearing to

Ashland Planning Board approves 21 Olive Street lot consolidation and advances housing policy work. Chair Tricia Kendall, with four members present, voted 4-0 to approve an ANR plan consolidating three lots into one for applicant Ed Rose. Kendall disclosed a conflict of interest as a former