St. Mark’s Street Park continues to divide officials (Updated)

Select Board and Planning members debate process and whether officials have broken their word.

Town Counsel has advised the Select Board that the park plans don’t require Site Plan Review by the Planning Board. At their most recent Planning Board meeting, members rebuked the Select Board. Read the full article → from St. Mark’s Street Park continues to divide officials (Updated)

Annual Town Meeting: St. Mark’s Street & Park Articles

While some urge moving forward with a road discontinuance and land swap as the best plan for resolving the "mess", the Planning Board is cautioning the Town to slow down and clarify muddy details first.

Tomorrow, the Select Board will bring the controversial St. Mark’s Street relocation and park project back to Annual Town Meeting voters. The board’s handling of the project since rebuked by voters last spring has turned around some naysayers. But with a ⅔ approval from voters needed for Article 12, and some vocal opponents still raising questions, the board was already facing a tough sell.

That just got tougher with the release of the Planning Board’s report to the Select Board as a Town Meeting handout. In it, Planning highlights why it can’t support the street discontinuance included in the Article. Read the full article → from Annual Town Meeting: St. Mark’s Street & Park Articles

Select Board reconsidering terms of St. Mark’s land swap agreement (Updated)

The Board is hoping for an agreement that meets the Town's and School's needs without alienating Town Meeting voters

This week, the Select Board postponed a vote on a new legal agreement with St. Mark’s School related to the park, street, and parking lot project. Read the full article → from Select Board reconsidering terms of St. Mark’s land swap agreement (Updated)

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