Weston Planning Board Continues Childcare Center Review, Approves Two Site Plans

WESTON — July 27, 2022 — Weston Planning Board continued a contested childcare center application and approved two residential site plans at its July 27 meeting. The board voted 3-0 to continue the site plan review for 863 Boston Post Road to September 7, directing the applicant's engineer, Rick Bryant of Stantec, to meet offline with peer reviewer VHB to reconcile a dispute over how many surplus parking spaces exist in the west lot — the town's reviewer identified 17, while the applicant characterized the figure as five or six. Member Adrienne Giske argued that removing a handful of east-lot spaces would allow the property line along Boston Post Road to be screened more effectively, while the applicant's representative argued that any reduction threatened safety on peak-demand days. The board also voted 3-0 to approve a site plan amendment for 31 Beach — a four-year-in-the-making net-zero home owned by Larry Krakauer — and 3-0 to approve a site plan decision for 119 Church Street, with conditions requiring a revised setback compliance table and a site management plan. Traffic and Sidewalk Committee Chair Jay Doyle briefed the board on the Route 30 shared-use path reconstruction, a 3.7-mile project with a MassDOT public hearing scheduled for September 22, 2022.