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Friday, November 16, 2012

Residents Express University Station Concerns to Selectmen

Residents filled the room at the Downey School to voice their concerns with the University Station development in an open forum-style setting before the Board of Selectmen.

  Over 100 Westwood residents filled the cafeteria at the Downey School last night as the Board of Selectmen held a meeting with the main topic of discussion being the University Station development. With the Planning Board and Finance and Warrant Commission also in attendance, and some residents forced to stand because there were no more chairs, the Selectmen ran the meeting as an open hearing to give residents the opportunity to voice their concerns with the project. 30 people had the chance to speak, with the most often mentioned concerns being traffic and the effects the residential portion of the project would have on the school system. “I’m glad that other people have the same concerns- housing, schools and traffic,” Pam Peckinpaugh…

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Robert Rosen

1:26 pm on Monday, November 19, 2012

Thank you again to both, Westwood Resident and Blueview Resident, for sharing your comments. Westwood Resident, I've actually attached Connery's report that was released about a week ago to this story. If you click where the photos are, there's a PDF document that you can view online right on this page. The report is long and includes many other things as well, but it does have what you're …   more ›

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