I met last Friday with Carol Libson, chair of the Dover selectmen, Patty Carey, Director of the Needham Park and Recreation Department, and Tad Staley of the Bay Colony Rail Trail organization. Carol initiated the meeting to see if planning across our three towns would facilitate and expedite the development of the Bay Colony Rail Trail.
Thinking and materials were shared, and a plan developed to move forward. My piece was to seek to form a citizen study committee in Medfield that could evaluate the possibility and make recommendations on whether to move forward. That issue is on the Board of Selectmen’s meeting agenda for this evening.
The Bay Colony Rail Trail is already a named priority in Needham’s strategic plan for its trails. Carol Libson is working to get the issue before the Dover town meeting in the spring. The Massachusetts Planning Organization should have its feasibility study done by the end of this year.
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