Weston Conservation Commission Unanimously Backs Appraisal of Historic Boston Post Road Meadow

Conservation Commission · Meeting of July 7, 2026

Weston Conservation Commission votes unanimously to seek appraisal funds for a historic open meadow on Boston Post Road. The commission voted 6-0 Tuesday to support a request to the Community Preservation Committee for administrative funds to appraise 819 Boston Post Road, a 1.92-acre parcel containing roughly one acre of open meadow that has been on the town's open-space priority list since 1996. Conservation Administrator Jordan McCarron described the property as contiguous with existing town conservation land and representing a declining grassland habitat type, with a potential special town meeting article this fall as the next major step.

The commission also voted 6-0 to issue a 10-day Emergency Certification to the Weston DPW to manually breach a beaver dam behind 48 Brook Road, where flooding has submerged a town drainage outfall and is approaching a home's foundation, expiring July 18. Separately, David Loutzenheiser of the Sustainability Committee presented a proposal to ban gas leaf blowers in Weston by 2030 through a three-year phase-in, joining 19 other Massachusetts municipalities; the commission offered generally supportive but informal feedback, with no formal vote taken.

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Source: the Conservation Commission meeting of July 7, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.