Selectmen Meet Tonight Regarding Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, Gas Station Wine and Malt Beverage License, Sports Facility on Ice House Road

Selectmen will have a full agenda tonight.

  The Board of Selectmen will meet tonight at 7 p.m.  Tonight's agenda includes a meeting with the Planning Board at 8 p.m. regarding a suggested zoning bylaw that would relegate medical marijuana dispensaries to the town's Industrial areas. The full agenda includes:  7:00 p.m., Lyme Disease Study Committee, Chris Kaldy Chairman: Update Selectmen on committee's activities 7:15 p.m., Town Counsel Mark Cerel: Discuss analysis of legal work and pending litigation, and FY14 budget review 7:30 p.m., Public Hearing on application for a wine and malt beverage license, John Carrigg, manager of Medfield Commons, 270 Main Street 8:00 p.m., Medfield Planning Board: Discuss medical marijuana dispensaries  8:15 p.m., Robert Borrelli: Discuss proposed …

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Poll: Tonight's 40B Informational Meeting

What are you hoping to learn about 40B and the West Street apartment complex proposal at tonight's public informational meeting?

Concerned and curious residents will file into the auditorium at Blake Middle School Tuesday as town officials hold a public informational meeting on Chapter 40B and the 96-unit apartment complex proposal on West Street. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. It was clear to town officials at State Representative Denis Garlick's "State-of-the-State" address in Town Hall on Feb. 1 that Chapter 40B needed to be addressed in a public forum after residents in attendance voiced concern over the legislation and specifically, the West Street proposal. “[Town Administrator] Mike Sullivan and I attended a meeting with Denise Garlick, who was delivering a presentation on how legislation occurs and there was a tremendous amount of discussion …

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Town Counsel: Medfield has 'Very Few Options' to Stop 40B Developments

Medfield Town Counsel Mark Cerel discussed 40B in Medfield at Tuesday’s Board of Selectmen meeting.

Medfield Town Counsel Mark Cerel delivered a clear and discouraging message to nearly 30 residents in attendance at Tuesday’s Board of Selectmen meeting to discuss their 40B concerns: “The town has very few options.” “I don’t want to give anyone any false expectations,” Cerel told those in attendance Tuesday. “The town has very few options in defensing these 40B projects as long as we are under 10 percent of affordable housing in the town. … I don’t want you to shoot the messenger. I’m not happy with it but it is what it is.” Medfield’s current percentage of affordable housing offered in town is approximately 4.4 percent – meaning until it reaches the state's 10 percent requirement, it may be subject to 40B proposals like the 96-unit …

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