On Thursday, May 2 at 7 pm via Zoom, the Conservation Commission will continue its hearing on the stormwater review aspect of the Notice of Intent (NOI) for Thorndike Place, under the Massachusetts Wetland Protection Act (WPA) received from Arlington Land Realty, LLC, the owner/developer of the site. The hearing on the invasive management and habitat plans was completed at the April 4 meeting.
Check the Con Com website for the final agenda, additional correspondence submitted for the hearing, and Zoom registration information.
Numerous peer review and consultants’ reports, public comments, recordings of previous meetings, and other correspondence regarding the NOI hearing are posted on the Commission’s Thorndike Place Wetlands Permit web page.
The Land Trust continues to fund Hydrologist Scott Horsley and his colleagues to analyze data presented by the developer’s consultant, BSC Group, and to present new data based on their own research, including water level readings from additional monitoring wells that have been placed on Town property adjacent to the Mugar site. The developer and BSC Group also agreed to install additional test pits and a monitoring well on their property. All of the available data is expected to be presented at the May 2 meeting.
Please write to concomm@town.arlington.ma.us to share your concerns about the importance of continued data collection and analysis of the hydrological conditions on the Mugar property so the Commission can be assured it has the most up-to-date and relevant information for their decision making. Thank you.