Weston Planning Board Continues Hemlock Road Subdivision Dispute, Closes Winter Street Hearing

WESTON — October 19, 2022 — Weston Planning Board continues four scenic road cases and closes one hearing in a nearly three-hour remote session. Attorney Gwen King, representing a majority of Hemlock Road property owners, argued the proposed subdivision should be denied because the development lot lacks sufficient access rights and cannot meet road-width or frontage requirements under the zoning bylaws, prompting Chair Leslie Glynn to direct staff to seek a Town Counsel response before the November 16 continuation. At 355 Highland Street, the board continued a public hearing to November 2 after members raised concerns about a 5,839-square-foot home's massing on a hilly site, with member Adrienne Giske calling it "a big box imposed on a hilly site." The board voted unanimously to close the hearing for a 3,755-square-foot house at 225 Winter Street, conditioning approval on efforts to preserve an 18-inch Norway maple threatened by septic excavation. A first detailed presentation for 297 Meadowbrook Road — where impervious surface would increase roughly 20 percent to about 26,210 square feet — was continued to November 16, with Giske calling for the board to evaluate the heavily altered property "as a tabula rasa."