Here are the posted open, public Southborough committee and board meetings for this week* along with my selected highlights from the agendas.
As always, be aware that changes to the meeting schedule (and agendas) are known to happen throughout the week. (Scroll down for details on any meetings that popped up after last Monday’s post.) For an updated list of meetings, visit the Town website.
These days, most (but not all) meetings, can be participated in, watched live, and replayed from home.)**
Monday, March 23, 2026
- Southborough Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on proposed zoning amendments (ADU Bylaw update, Tricentennial Committee Signs, Industrial Park District Expanded Uses, MBTA overlay bylaw correction, and Fixing zoning SHOPC references), and modifications to site plans (22 Turnpike Rd Golf Range & 154 Turnpike Rd-non-compliance); Updates on Subdivision Rules & Regs and 250 Turnpike Rd. 40B; Discuss Imminent Hazard Tree Removals
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 12:30 pm @ webinar only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Trottier Roof Communication Flyer and Strategy
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
- Affordable Housing Trust Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Officer election; Updates on CPC Application and 55+ Housing Bylaw; discuss potential financing, strategies and parcels
- Advisory Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss Annual Town Meeting Warrant Articles & draft of report to Town Meeting
Thursday, March 26, 2026
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Updates on Projects (Town Common Rail & Audubon International); Annual Town Meeting Prep; Process for continued applications for FY27 Fall Town Meeting (Fayville Park Improvements, Rural Cemetery Water Tower Restoration, Golf Course Irrigation, and Peninsula Trail); Signage to complete projects
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
- Capital Improvement and Planning Committee Meeting, 8:00 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Review FY27 capital request for Atwood Site; Vote on Annual Town Meeting Warrant Articles
Friday, March 20, 2026
- Open Space Preservation Commission Meeting, 2:00 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Chapter 61 Johnson Land: Right of First Refusal; Finalize Native Plant Requirements Language for Conservation and Planning
Board; CPC-OSPC Golf Course projects; other OSPC projects and updates
*I don’t list meetings that are only closed Executive Sessions unless the agenda indicates the possibility of some action in an open public session at the opening or closing of the meeting.
**Details on watching meetings remotely:
- Town Committee/Board Meetings:
- If in-person meetings don’t also advertise a zoom option, assume that it won’t be broadcast or captured on video.
- To remotely participate in meetings that allow zoom, click here.
- To live stream (or view later) remote or hybrid meetings (even those covered by Southborough Access Media) over the internet, use the Town’s YouTube Channel for Remote Meetings. (The meetings covered by SAM can also be streamed on their website here, and eventually on SAM’s YouTube Channel.)
- Cable Access — Southborough Access Media broadcasts the regular evening meetings for the Select Board, Planning Board, and Zoning Board of Appeals that take place in the Town House Hearing Room. (Those meetings will still allow zoom participation.) View SAM’s live and replayed broadcasts via their Government cable access channel (Verizon-37 and Charter-194).
- School Committee Meetings:
- Subcommittee meetings and some special meetings are only available to attend/view live (in person or by “webinar”) with no later rebroadcast.
- Regular Southborough School Committee meetings are generally broadcast live by Southborough Access Media here and on Verizon-37 and Charter-192. (Video replays are also usually made available through their YouTube channel within a couple of days.)
- Regular Regional School Committee meetings (or Combined meetings based at Algonquin) are live broadcast by Northborough Cable Access here and YouTube channel, and on Southborough’s Education Channel (Verizon-29 and Charter-194). The meetings are also eventually rebroadcast and available on demand through NCAT’s VideoOnDemand player and YouTube (though that can take several days).
- Other:
- Southborough does participate in some regional collaboratives hosted in other towns. Those committees follow their own rules and may not offer a way to re-watch zoom meetings.
