Franklin TV video for replay -> https://www.youtube.com/live/82a99atYf0s?&t=1149
The ZBA page for this 444 East Central project is here -> https://www.franklinma.gov/815/2025-Current-Recent-ZBA-Hearings
The application as submitted on the Town page is here -> https://www.franklinma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/4594/444-East-Central-ZBA-application-comp-permit
Meeting items of note
- Halligan recused himself
- project overview briefly recapped (slides captured below)
- a clerical problem with notice resulted in an agreement between the applicant attorney and the committee, committee not to invoke safe harbor, appplicant not to invoke a constructive grant. The constructive grant would have allowed the applicant to bypass most of the ZBA process
- The application will continue and take some number of months to do so. The next meeting is targeted for June 5, the next after that is July 17
- Due to this negotiation, the peer review process did not start. Traffic will be first up at the next meeting
- Town Administrator Jamie Hellen participating this time, and he explains why, he is participating to explain details around the process and clarify, everybody can hear the record as one
- One sore point (lack of communication from the ZBA Chair and other members after multiple email queries), it was revealed that responding to individual emails is a non-no during the time that the subject is before the Board. It could potentially violate open meeting law. All discussions, responses to questions, need to be in the open meeting.
Slides of the presentation -> https://photos.app.goo.gl/x5N6EvhwDRUtcRps5
The waivers requested by the project are outlined in Section 8 and contained in this PDF (separated from the full project doc) -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/11lkqa0Hz1VCO_J3utf-5NynwlnPeVPQj/view?usp=drive_link
To support Town Administrator Hellen's statements on water supply, information on the water conservation page should explain -> https://www.franklinma.gov/628/Water-Conservation
There is a 3-part podcast series covering the water supply and operations for Franklin from well to our faucets -> https://www.franklinmatters.org/2024/09/town-of-franklin-all-about-water-system.html
There is also a 3-part series on the sewer from our flushes to the Charles River Treatment -> https://www.franklinmatters.org/2024/09/town-of-franklin-all-about-sewer-system.html
