The Conservation Commission is spearheading the effort to update the Open Space and Recreation Plan (OSRP) and is planning a pair of public forums and an upcoming online survey. The commission is working with a residents’ advisory group and a environmental consultant on the OSRP, which was last updated in March 2008. AS explained in the introduction, the…
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Property sales for June
343 Hemlock Circle — Cynthia Williams, trustee to Michael Jordoff Trust and Nancy Jordoff, trustees for $534,100 (June 1) 16 Bypass Rd. — Zachary Burnett to McLean Hospital Corp. for $1,024,500 (June 1) 22 Bypass Rd. — Burnett Remodeling LLC to McLean Hiospital Corp. for $1,700,000 (June 1) 35 Deerhaven Rd. — Mary Rurth Trubiano,…
Letter to the editor: McLean educational use is ‘semantic fiction’
To the editor: I am one of the many neighbors who are challenging McLean’s right to locate a treatment center on Bypass Road. Carol Kochmann’s overwrought defense of McLean Hospital’s attempt to establish a psychiatric treatment facility in a residentially zoned neighborhood completely misses the point of the community’s objections and concerns (“Feeling ‘shame’ for…
Landscape designers looking at Lincoln Station area
The Conway School of Ecological Landscape Design and Planning is partnering with the Lincoln Planning Board to develop a site plan that aims to make the Mall at Lincoln Station a lively, multi-use central gathering space for visitors and residents, who are also invited to take a short survey online about the area. The school will be…
Letter to the editor: feeling ‘shame’ for Lincoln
Editor’s note: The Lincoln Squirrel is on vacation and was not able to attend the June 28 meeting Kochmann refers to. Coverage will resume on July 11. To the editor, The night of June 28 at the Planning Board meeting marked the second time this year I felt overwhelmed with shame for a body of Lincoln…
Land use hearings coming up
The Lincoln Planning Board will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 28 to review an application for Site Plan Review. The applicant, McLean Hospital, proposes to designate parking to accommodate a total of 21 spaces at 16 Bypass and 22 Bypass Rd. (see the Lincoln Squirrel, June 15, 2016). The Lincoln Conservation…
Public hearing scheduled on McLean proposal
The Planning Board has scheduled a June 28 public hearing for a site plan review relating to parking for a McLean Hospital proposal to locate a residential educational/therapeutic residence on Bypass Road. The hearing starts at 7 p.m. in the Town Office Building’s Donaldson Rom. Dozens of residents appeared at a May 24 Planning Board meeting…
Property sales in May
26 Longmeadow Rd. — Abbey Rd. Properties LLC to Robert and Karla Talanian for $1,420,000 (May 31) 96 Page Rd. — Dana Coombs to David Kahn and Annelise Parham for $875,000 (May 27) 141 Weston Rd. — Joanne Armstrong to Keith Gilbert and Stacy Osur $1,795,000 (May 26) 12 Brooks Hill Rd. — Mark Leonardi…
Property sales and public hearings
Upcoming public hearings The Lincoln Conservation Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, May 18 at 7:45 p.m., in the Lincoln Town Offices in response to the duly filed Notice of Intent by Christopher Boit for restoration of wetland and buffer zone resource areas at 61 Bedford Road. The Lincoln Planning Board will hold…
Residents turn out in force against McLean proposal
After hearing from two attorneys and dozens of angry Bypass Road residents who packed the Donaldson Room, the Planning Board decided on Tuesday night that the McLean Hospital proposal for an educational therapeutic residence on Bypass Road should go to a public hearing because the new use of the property does not constitute a minor…