Weston Conservation Commission Closes Three Hearings, Issues Pollywog Lane Enforcement Order

WESTON — June 10, 2025 — Weston Conservation Commission closed three hearings and issued a formal enforcement order at its June 10 meeting. The board approved orders of conditions for an invasive-species restoration project in a 25-foot no-disturb zone at 25 Holly Circle — conditioning approval on no stump excavation, a submitted construction sequence, and three years of monitoring — and for the town's Ash Street sidewalk and drainage project, where engineer Jason LaVoy warned that a DEP request to apply stream-crossing standards to a cracked 15-inch culvert replacement could balloon costs from roughly $100,000 to $400,000 to $500,000 and potentially "end up stopping this project from actually happening." A third hearing at 45 Dravington Way concluded with approval of a 5,072-square-foot mitigation package including 18 new tree plantings and 49 shrub plantings along Hobbs Brook. The commission also issued certificates of compliance for a 1990 order of conditions at 275 South Avenue that had lingered on a title chain for more than 30 years, and for a Warren Place stormwater project, and voted to issue an enforcement order requiring the owner of a Pollywog Lane property to present a no-disturb-zone mitigation plan at the June 24 meeting.