The Planning Board held a public information session on June 16, 2010, on its draft revisions of the zoning bylaws to prevent disproportionately oversized houses from being built in the R1 and R2 zoning districts.
Read the draft zoning bylaw provisions here.
The United States and Blasch del Mar LLC are in final stages of settlement negotiations in the United States’ appeal of the Land Court’s dismissal of its challenge to the Blasch building permit.
The United States had previously been given an extension to file its brief in the Massachusetts Appeals Court. On June 25, 2010, court proceedings were stayed until July 28 to permit final settlement negotiations to proceed. A status report was filed on July 28, with the stay pending settlement negotiations extended to August 30.
On August 28, both the United States and Blasch filed a joint motion to stay the appellate proceedings in order to go back to the Land Court to jointly request that court to vacate its decision and to modify its judgment. The parties have until September 28 to dismiss the appeal if the lower court decision is vacated or to report back to the Appeals Court if it is not.
See the Mass. Appeals Court docket in case 2010-P-0385 here.