Politics & Government

Voters to Make Historic Decision on State Hopsital Land at Special Town Meeting

Town Meeting members on March 10 will decide if the land goes into the control of residents or if it will stay in the state's control.

Medfield residents will have the chance to vote on whether the land on which the Medfield State Hospital sits will enter into their control for the first time in more than a century. 

Members of a Special Town Meeting on Monday, March 10, will decide if the land should leave state control for the first time in 124 years or if it should stay within state control until state officials decide to sell it off for development, according to a recent profile on the land in the Hometown Weekly

The land itself entered entered state control in 1890, when the state commission appointed to buy the site for the location of an asylum for the chronic insane, according to the report. 

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More than 100 individuals gathered last month at a visioning workshop focused on what to do with the land. 

Meanwhile, local officials are asking any member of a group in town that would like to have an informal Q&A session with members of the State Hospital Advisory Committee prior to the town meeting to email feedback@mshvision.net with details regarding your group name, group size, and a date/location for their regularly scheduled meeting during the last week of February or the first week of March. 

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