A voter s guide to the annual spring Town Meeting theweektoday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theweektoday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Another of the styles of duplex proposed for Settler’s Glen.
The complex is proposed for a strip of land on Red Brook Road, roughly behind the 7/11. Cranberry Highway runs across this image, ending at the lower-right corner.
At a hearing for a proposed condo development on Red Brook Road, officials expressed frustration with Chapter 40B, the law that allows developers to ignore some local zoning regulations as long as the town has less than 10 percent affordable housing.
The proposed 20-unit Settler’s Glen condo complex could create material problems for the town, which is unable to deny the developer sewer access even though Wareham’s water treatment plant has a moratorium on new sewer hook-ups due to lack of capacity.
This story has been updated to reflect that “Sewer Superintendent” is the accurate title for that position.
The overarching theme when the Board of Selectmen met on Tuesday, March 9, was Town Meeting business.
With a Special Town Meeting scheduled for April 10 and the annual Spring Town Meeting scheduled for April 26, the Selectmen had plenty to consider and that was even before the board voted to call another Special Town Meeting within the Special Town Meeting on April 10.
As of March 9, interested voters should plan to attend Town Meetings on:
• April 10 for a Special Town Meeting (and another Special Town Meeting within it) to vote on the proposed Hospitality District and a possible lease of Westfield, where the Wareham Tigers hope to establish fields.
Madison Czopek Jan 21, 2021
It would not be feasible or economically advantageous to repurpose John W. Decas Elementary School as affordable housing for Wareham’s seniors, according to analysis conducted by Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District and the developer Pennrose.
During a Jan. 21 Wareham Redevelopment Authority meeting, board member Richard Swenson said Pennrose and SRPEDD had been consulted about whether or not the Decas School school would be a promising spot for senior housing.
Pennrose is the developer behind the Littleton Drive complex, which will include 44 affordable one-bedroom senior units.
“The answer came back unanimous from everyone we’ve talked to that it’s much more valuable as a commercial space than it is a housing space,” Swenson said. “While housing is definitely a valid and useful project to pursue, that’s not the optimum spot to do it.”