Weston Unified Plan Committee Advances Housing Draft, Sets August 3 Return

Unified Plan Committee · Meeting of July 13, 2026

Weston Unified Plan Committee advances housing draft review, defers tax-bill language to August 3. The seven-member committee, chaired by Danielle Black and meeting in hybrid format at the Police Station Training Room, unanimously approved amended May 22 minutes after member Melanie Larson successfully moved to soften a passage linking racial and economic diversity and to add a clarifying note that the Historic Commission's reluctance to extend the town's demolition delay ordinance reflects that a longer delay "is not a priority at this time." The bulk of the session was spent reviewing a housing draft prepared by member Robert Scott, with extended debate over a sentence asserting that Weston has the highest real estate tax bills in the state; Town Manager Leon clarified that the state's published measure is the highest average single-family tax bill, and that the committee would need to decide whether to use average or median consistently throughout the document. Planning Board member Leslie warned that a pending state YIGBY bill, which passed the Massachusetts House earlier in the week and would allow religious landowners to build 30 to 50 units per acre at 20 to 25 percent affordability, could constrain local control just as Weston nears completion of its Chapter 40B obligations.

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Source: the Unified Plan Committee meeting of July 13, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.