Category Archives: West Street development

Town 40B consultants summary

The town’s consultants on the Gatehouse 40B project proposed for West Street submitted the attached summary regarding the requested waivers sought by Gatehouse.  SUMMARY

Gatehouse offers compromises

At the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of Medfield’s continued hearing on the Gatehouse 40B project on West Street last night, Gatehouse submitted a letter in which it lays out the compromises that it is willing to effect in its proposed project.  Here is that letter.

Gatehouse at ZBA tonight

The hearing continues before the ZBA on the Gatehouse 40B.  A letter was received from Gatehouse with its proposals of what it is willing to do.  Next meeting dates were to be10/23 and 10/30, but decision was made that they will not have enough new information from Mr. Jacobs, the town’s financial consultant by that date to make it worth keeping, so the next date will be 10/30.  Gatehouse agreed to continue the date by which the ZBA must close its hearing by five days, to 11/5, so as to accommodate the ZBA hearing schedule needs and decision timing constraints by which the decision must be issued.

Gatehouse & town plan meeting

Mike Sullivan told me today that Gatehouse today has asked to meet with the town about its proposed 40B project on West Street.  Mike will be setting up the meeting, and I have been asked to be the representative from the Board of Selectmen to attend.

I asked Mike to look into the availability of using the state grant monies Representative Denise Garlick referenced, to hire a 40B consultant to assist the town with those discussions.  The state consultant list I reviewed last week, of about a dozen approved consultants qualified for these grants, included one the town has used before and whose work we respect, so I suggested that a call to that consultant would probably tell us everything we need to know about how the state grants work.