There will be an informational meeting with representatives of the Housing Choice Act Working Group and the Rural Land Foundation (owner of the mall) on Thursday, March 7 at at 7 p.m. in the Lincoln Public Library’s Tarbell Room. This will be an in-person event only, and seating will be limited.
The unofficial meeting with town officials including Select Board member Jennifer Glass, Planning Board Chair Margaret Olson, and Director of Planning and Land Use Paula Vaughn-MacKenzie is organized and hosted by Pam and Ken Hurd. It is not a presentation or debate but will focus on questions people may have regarding the proposed zoning changes to the Lincoln Station District in response to HCA.
Geoff McGean and Michelle Barnes of the RLF will also answer questions on the constraints they face in transforming the current mall building into housing with ground floor commercial, perhaps using a schematic plan for illustrative purposes only.
Videos of the RLF’s public forums in January and February can be found on this RLF web page. Read about them in the Lincoln Squirrel articles published on Jan. 21, 2024 and March 3, 2024.
To clarify, this request and these questions (9:19 AM) are from Sarah Liepert, Trapelo Road.
Hi Alice. Would you kindly ask the public officials (Select Board, Planning Board, and HCAWG) who will be answering questions and giving information at tonight’s event, what is meant by an “unofficial” meeting? The LincolnTalk post, from which this Squirrel post derives, stated that this event is being done as a “public service.” It did not describe the event as “unofficial.” In any case, the event is public. Whether or not the meeting is “unofficial,” why will it not be posted on the Town website, to inform the public that public officials are the invited guests of this event, who will be there with the express purpose of answering questions and giving information to the public? Here is a copy/paste of the title and the first sentence of the LincolnTalk post:
Lincoln Station Update
HCAWG/RLF Informational Session
Tarbell Room at the Lincoln Town Library
March 7, 2024 @ 7:00 pm
As a public service, there will be a meeting in the Tarbell Room of the Lincoln Town Library at 7:00 pm on March 7th. This will be an in-person event only, and seating will be limited.