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Select Board Office Hours this Friday

I hold regular monthly office hours at The Center on the first Friday of every month from 9:00 to 10:00 AM. 
Residents are welcome to stop by to talk in person about any town matters.
Residents can also have coffee and see the Council on Aging in action (a vibrant organization with lots going on).

Norfolk Hunt Club’s Thanksgiving Hunt outbound this morning at the top of the sledding hill by the former Medfield State Hospital site. There were maybe a dozen hounds and 50 riders. Decades ago while jogging on Thanksgiving I bumped into a lone rider, Chris Hajjir, riding by herself to lay the trail of fox smell the hounds would follow in the hunt that morning. I recall being impressed how she had it all timed out to do around cooking her family’s turkey.

NB – this post was prepared at the end of October, but mistakenly got into a draft folder and was never published. If you are missing a yard sign, check the PSB lobby.

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Due to miscommunication at the Town House, a bunch of yard signs were mistakenly collected this week from in front of homes in town. If you are missing a yard sign, check for it in the pile of yard signs in the lobby at the Public Safety Building.

From Deborah J. Bero –

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The Select Board has decided that its meetings will henceforth commence at 6PM, starting tonight.

Go to Medfield Patch to see the photographs taken by Colleen Sullivan, a real photographer, who must have been using a real camera with a real flash.

From Maria De La Fuente, Director of Land Use and Planning –

Medfield MBTA Zoning Initiative- Thursday, December 14th at 6 pm in the Public Safety Building, first-floor Training Room

This is an in-person public workshop to discuss the required zoning changes mandated by M.G.L. c. 40A §3A (also known as “Multi-Family Zoning Requirement for MBTA Communities” or “MBTA Zoning”). The primary purpose of this meeting is to be an informational meeting for the public led by Medfield’s MBTA Consultant, Emily Innes from Innes Associates.
Topics covered will include:

● What is MBTA Zoning?

● What are the recent amendments to the MBTA Zoning requirements and how do they affect us?

● Q&A

● Public feedback to the consultant and Planning Board

We encourage the members of the public who wish to actively participate to attend in person. More information on MBTA Zoning can be found here: http://bit.ly/Medfield-MBTA

Maria De La Fuente
Director of Land Use and Planning
459 Main Street
Medfield, MA  02052
(508) 906-3027
mdelafuente@medfield.net  

From Maria De La Fuente, Director of Land Use and Planning –

Medfield Economic Development Visioning Project- Monday, December 4th at 6 pm in the Public Safety Building, first-floor Training Room

This is an in-person public workshop to discuss what types of businesses or amenities residents would like to see in Medfield’s Industrial-Extensive (IE) district, and to learn how the district can evolve to support heightened economic activity. This workshop is being offered in partnership with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. The event will include a presentation of initial project findings and a discussion of community members’ priorities for the area. We encourage the members of the public who wish to actively participate to attend in person. 

Please register via the link below to join us and share your vision for the IE district! 

Registration: https://mapc.ma/IEVision 

For questions, meeting needs, or more information, contact Abigail Bliss at abliss@mapc.org or 617-933-0722. All Medfield residents and business owners are encouraged to attend.