Last Thursday the Planning Board met to decide the question of whether to recommend to the Building Commissioner whether the changes proposed by the applicant would be acceptable or not. The Board carefully reviewed what the applicant had originally submitted, what the applicant had further submitted as modifications, and what now exists. The decision of the Framingham Planning Board was unanimous that the recommendation to the Building Commissioner was that the Wall should come down. On Friday, Joe Mikielian issued his order that the Wall is to be removed. I'm still collecting information on the details on how this process is to happen, and if anyone has more info, please pass it along. The developer is required to submit engineering plans showing how the Wall is to be taken down. Ostensibly, the Wall is supposed to be down by noon next Monday. There is also a Show Cause Hearing to be held next Tuesday morning at the Court House.
All in all, we still have more to be done before the wall is actually removed, but I'd like to pass this on because we don't get good news often enough. As a general rule, this developer has cost the various Town Boards and Commissions a huge amount of time and effort, as well as incurred expense to himself. We all realize that it's not over and that there are likely more incidents in store for us. But this all bodes well and the people that helped to get this situation on the path toward resolution should all get the recognition they deserve. One last Postscript: The Board of Selectmen met last week to appoint two citizens to the newly formed Building Code Enforcement Task Force. Kathy Vassar and myself were selected to be part of a nine person committee, where the rest of the committee is composed of Heads from different departments at Town Hall. Our mission is to help define better process to prevent things like the Wall from happening in the future. -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net
