Bob Borrelli presented his plans for his latest friendly 40B located at 71 North Street (copies below) to the Board of Selectmen on Tuesday evening, and received a BoS vote of town support for this Local Initiative Project (LIP).  The project will be similar to his almost completed (rentals starting in November) 67 North Street project in the Jacob Cushman House, which saved the old structure at the street and added on a new addition at the rear.  Both projects will have eight residential rental units, with two in each being affordable, but where both are rental projects, the town gets credit for all eight units in each as part of our Subsidized Housing Inventory (SHI) towards our 10% affordable housing requirement.

The eight units in the Jacob Cushman House are part of the 21 Subsidized Housing Inventory (SHI) units the town permitted this past year, along with the 13 SHI that are part of the Larkins’ Hospital Road ownership 40B that got the town into a one year safe harbor from unfriendly 40B’s.  The Town of Medfield will need to permit another 13 SHI before next summer to have an additional year of safe harbor from the unfriendly 40B’s, and there are many irons in the fire to provide those additional SHI units.

From the Medfield Memorial Library –

You’re Invited!

Medfield Public Library’s Centennial Celebration!

Sunday, October 1, 2017 2-5 pm

Join us for an afternoon of:

• Jazz
• Refreshements
• Kurt Jackson, storyteller
• Meeting Granville Dailey
• Learning the history of the library
• Refreshments and much more!

We will also be holding a reprise of all of the activities of the Grand Opening of the STEAM Room, the library’s new makerspace, for all of those who were unable to attend.

On Monday evening this week the planning board held its fourth hearing on the application of the Medfield Children’s Center to build a child care facility at 75 High Street to serve about 90 children a day. The MCC has been operating out of the Baptist and Episcopal Churches.

The Monday hearing related to the site visit, earthwork, and blasting work. Traffic will be discussed at the October 2 continuation date. About 30 residents attended.

The PB’s per review engineering consultant actively shared information and confirmed materials from the MCC engineer. I was glad to see that the PB used its own consultant so freely and that the town consultant affirmed that the MCC engineer had accurately described things.

I am guessing that the traffic county’s and sight lines will be major issues.

Interesting update afterwards on the MSH, AHT, EDC, and PB plans for town meeting issues.

Photo by Chuck Ferullo

Medfield State Hospital campus is open

An email from Kristine Trierweiler this afternoon states:

“The Medfield State Hospital campus is open again. 20th Century Fox has officially left the site as of today. ”

The Board of Selectmen is scheduled to make its annual appointments to town committees at our October 3 meeting.  I am posting below the list of committees and appointments, and if people have an interest in serving on a particular town committee, they should let Evelyn Clarke know before 9/29.

I spent Medfield Day helping the Medfield Foundation with its booth and also spent a shift with Medfield Cares About Prevention (MCAP) – in the photo above I am sharing time with MCAP board member and school nurse Kathy Thompson.  Note the new “02052” hat I am wearing – you can get it at Jack Conway Realtors, and the $10 goes to MCAP.

My observations on the reactions I received from people, in general, as I handed them flyers, either from the Medfield Foundation or MCAP, with an elevator speech line of explanation (“MFi raises money for good things for your town, $2m so far” or “MCAP is working to keep your kids safe from drugs and alcohol”) was that most people were genuinely pleased to get that information, based on many heart felt sounding thanks received.

None of that has anything to do with the primary election tomorrow for the empty state senate seat, except that it was the reason I was at Medfield Day, which resulted in the conversations that caused me to learn that:

• Ted Philips told Medfield’s Fred Davis who told me that he, Ted Philips, is “left of center,” and that Paul Feeney “is left of him.”
• Democratic Town Committee members Eileen DeSorgher and Sue Bernstein related that they support Ted Philips because he is more experienced.
• Representative Denise Garlick reported that when she was a new state representative that Ted Philips, then a state house staffer, was hugely helpful to her.

I got to say hello to both Ted Philips and Mike Berry.

The ballots for tomorrow appear below –

Just received from Mike Sullivan –

I saw this on the email the website sends me about any website changes – the hammer is finally coming down on the need for the new transfer station stickers: