I would have been very happy to have weighed in for Sudbury Valley Trustees on some of these issues - we spend a lot of time thinking about open space and trails in Framingham!
It seems that most of the information I receive on public meetings in Framingham comes from this list-serve, which is great, but most of them also seem to arrive the day of the meeting, which makes it difficult to plan ahead (SVT has around 32 towns to cover, so it's a challenge to try to track all public meeting schedules). I wonder how well and how widely this was advertised, and if that's part of the reason for the poor turn-out. If anyone has suggestions about how to get advance notice of such meetings and events, I'd love to hear them, and we are often willing to forward information to our members in hopes that they'll get out to advocate for better planning and open space preservation. Christa Hawryluk Collins Land Protection Specialist Sudbury Valley Trustees 978.897.5500 x15 -----Original Message----- From: Steven W. Orr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:42 AM To: Framingham Neighbors; Town Meeting Members Subject: Last night's Planning Department Meeting, and new 311 service. On Monday, Jun 16th 2003 at 09:49 -0400, quoth Steven W. Orr: =>Planning Department Tonight: => =>Framingham's Department of Planning and Economic Development is holding a =>public hearing on Monday, June 16, 2003 at 7:00 p.m. in Nevins Hall to =>obtain input from Framingham residents and organizations regarding natural =>resource and open space preservation issues. Input gathered will be =>utilized to develop the Natural Resources and Open Space element of the =>Town's Community Development Plan. =>Specific areas of discussion will include: =>A) Determine public goals for specific areas such as water supplies to be => protected by zoning, acquisition or other means =>B) Discuss, expand upon, and further refine previous Natural Resource and => Open Space Goals: =>Streetscapes as open space and historical resources =>Work to protect connecting trails =>Retain local character of villages and streetscapes with open space =>Protection of open land & parks throughout town =>Provide access to water resources and protect water quality =>Encourage more greenspace development and an analysis of Bulk/Density of =>new developments as an impact on open space =>C) Determine which areas of the community should be initially designated => for residential, commercial, and industrial uses (if any). => =>Input from each of the Town's eighteen precincts is especially important. =>Please consider attending. Well, that was a big bust. What we had last night was a fairly important agenda which didn't happen because the number of people who showed up was inadequate for the purpose. Kathy Bartolini was expecting between 50 and 100 people, a number that would have provided enough of a statistical sampling of the town to justify relevance. At 7:30 there were about a dozen members of the public. The engineers had to pack up and go home and the meeting will have to be rescheduled in the Fall. Also, there's an interesting article in today's MWsNooze about the success of the new 311 service happening on Martha's Vineyard which we should be getting soon here in Framingham. http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/local_regional/ap_vineyard06172003.ht m -- -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 To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body "unsubscribe frambors" (the subject is ignored). To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body "unsubscribe frambors" (the subject is ignored).
