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 Zoom meeting will take place on Thursday, June 20, starting at 7 pm.
The Commission has recently hired GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. (GZA) as a third-party peer reviewer to provide additional geohydrologic expertise on the project’s compliance with regulations outlined in the Massachusetts Stormwater Handbook and Stormwater Standards, as required by the Department of Environmental Protection. As documented in previous hearings, the Land Trust, through its hydrology consultants, and The BSC Group, as engineering consultants for the Applicant, have provided information from their respective groundwater monitoring and stormwater mounding analyses.
Please note that GZA’s review is not expected to be completed by June 20, so discussion of the project and their findings may be limited. Future Con Com hearings are tentatively scheduled for July 11 and July 25.
Check the Con Com website for the final agenda, additional correspondence submitted for the hearing, and Zoom registration information.
Previous peer review and consultants’ reports, public comments, and other correspondence regarding the NOI hearing are posted on the Commission’s Thorndike Place Wetlands Permit web page.