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, August 18, 2025
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Proposed changes to zoning bylaws for ADUs and Industrial Park District Uses; Open Space Notification Letters; Discuss 250 Turnpike Rd 40B; Public Hearings on 118 Turnpike Rd, Ste 103 (use for Back Nine Golf), 10 Turnpike Rd (Storage Facility Site Plan), Proposed Zoning Amendment to Industrial Park District (add “Highway Major Retail” use), 2 East Main St (Multi-Family Bldg – likely to be continued), 154 Turnpike Rd, Ste 140 (use for Chase Bank), and 34 Sears Rd (Scenic Road Stonewall Remove/Replace); Report on 144 Turnpike Rd (Sign Application); Town Planner updates (on Housing Production Plan Update, Resident C Districts, Zoning Map correction from 2014, and Native Plant info for website)
- Affordable Housing Trust Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Planning Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss potential zoning change to remove or increase the cap on senior housing units [Editor’s Note: This isn’t specified on the Planning Board agenda, but could be addressed under the Housing Production Plan Update.]
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
- Select Board Meeting, 6:15 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Police Department Student Officer Appointments; Hearing on Used Car Dealer License Hearing for 355 Turnpike Rd (Pratts Automotive Group); Updates on SYFS, Wastewater, Transfer Station Access and Violations; Extend PreK-8 School Building Committee’s deadline for completing Matrix; Approve contract with SAM (Southborough Access Media); Proposed revisions to personnel compensation; Delegation of administrative tasks to Town Administrator; Community Preservation Act financial trends; Review Fall Special Town Meeting Warrant
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
- Personnel Board Meeting, 8:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Approve salary and vacation accrual rates for Benefit & Payroll Coordinator
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on 71 Mt. Vickery Rd (constructing office), 118 Turnpike Rd (exercise facility and multiple uses), 250 Turnpike Rd (40B for 32 townhomes); Discuss ADU bylaw and zoning bylaw updates
Thursday, August 21, 2025
- Conservation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on 13 Foley Drive (inground pool), 6 Brook Lane (septic), 34 Sears Road (driveway and removal of pipe), Latisquama & Boston Rd (road improvements & utility pole replacements), 3 Bridge Street (septic), MBTA Commuter Rail (resource area boundaries); Certificate of Compliances for 8 Dairy Farm Ln & 120 Turnpike Rd, and 20 & 22 Turnpike Rd; Enforcement Order for 250 Turnpike Road Stream Restoration Plan; Updates on 250 Turnpike Rd 40B, Chestnut Hill Farm, and Breakneck Hill Farm Restoration; Reorganization
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Thursday, August 14, 2025
- Trails Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Peninsula Trail updates; Trail mowing and brush clearing; bench location and scheduling, shed & tool org
*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).
