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<br />Sidewalk Committee Meeting <br />August 4, 2008 <br /> <br />Attended: John Davies, Suzie Barry, Francine Stieglitz, Meg Lotz, Jerry VanHook, Richard Canale, and Sue Ellen <br />Briggs <br /> <br />The Sidewalk Committee will be at the Farmer’s Market on August 19, 2008. Francine will be out of town that <br />day. Meg, Suzie, Jerry and Sue Ellen will be available. <br /> <br />Review of the June minutes. <br /> Pat Goddard – Ramp at Fiske bids closing August 28, 2008 <br /> <br />Letter was sent by Jerry on priorities of pedestrian access to schools <br /> <br />Reappointments: John Davies will stay on the committee until Sept. 2009. Jerry will contact Lisa Baci to see if <br />she would like to come back to the meetings. <br /> <br />Grove St. has a great rebuilt sidewalk. <br />Oakland St. St Nicholas Church got approval to remove a tree. That is all the progress at this point. <br />Roosevelt Rd. surveyed and there is room for sidewalk. Resident support is needed. <br />Phillip St. will be started next. <br />School St. (street and sidewalk) will be resurfaced next year. <br /> <br />Transportation improvement fund (TIF) = federal dollars <br /> <br />Now that the Sheraton Hotel is open, when will stripping of Mass Ave from Wood St. to Marrett Rd. be done? <br />Will there be a path to the Minuteman National Park? <br /> <br />John Davies spoke of a proposed development at 341 Marrett Rd. 10 units of balanced housing or cluster <br />development with 6 new townhouses constructed and the existing buildings. There is a path on the property that <br />connects Marrett Rd. with Wachusett Dr. The developer would like it to be a private path. The planning board <br />could require a through street or a cul-de-sac with public access. The developer threatens to go for 4 jumbo houses <br />and tear down historically significant house if access is required. <br /> <br />Motion by Meg and seconded by Suzie: “The Sidewalk Committee recommends that if the Planning Board <br />approves development at 341 Marrett Rd. that pedestrian access be made available between Wachusett Dr. and <br />Marrett Rd.” This motion was unanimously approved. <br /> <br />Traffic Mitigation Group (TMG) has four projects it is working on: <br /> Marrett Rd. and Waltham St. $1.1M completed in 2011 <br /> Spring St. and Marrett Rd. intersection $500,000 <br /> Spring St. sidewalk $860,000 <br /> Hayden Ave and Spring St. intersection $140,000 <br /> <br />Dave Cannon is working on defining a policy on traffic calming initiatives. <br /> <br />The Sidewalk Committee needs to keep an eye out for these projects to see that pedestrian access is brought up in <br />the planning stages. <br /> <br />Citizen Comments: Wood St. residents would like to see traffic calming on this street. The Engineering <br />Department sees this road as arterial. <br /> <br />Hartwell Ave.- The Planning Board recommends sidewalks on both sides and bike lanes the whole length. <br /> <br />Meeting adjourned at 12:45pm <br />Respectfully submitted by Sue Ellen Briggs <br />