Norton Planning Board continues all major hearings to March 17 amid snowstorm meeting
Norton Planning Board continues five active development hearings to March 17 after storm forces virtual session. Acting Chair Eric Norris, the board's clerk, led a five-member quorum after Chair Alan and Vice Chair Tim were absent from the February 24 meeting.
Planning Board · Meeting of February 24, 2026
Norton Planning Board continues five active development hearings to March 17 after storm forces virtual session. Acting Chair Eric Norris, the board's clerk, led a five-member quorum after Chair Alan and Vice Chair Tim were absent from the February 24 meeting. The board voted 5-0 to endorse lot combinations on Mansfield Avenue for Pistern Home Builders LLC, then continued hearings on a 21-lot cluster development at 0 Pine Street, where abutters Anthony Soika and Bob Butler pressed the board on cumulative traffic from an estimated 74 new homes on the corridor, as well as a revised apartment project at 0 West Main Street that is dropping its multifamily special permit in favor of a by-right "top of the shop" configuration.
The board accepted a surety bond exceeding $900,000 for Balfour Farms' Lloyd Circle and Jermaine Way roadwork, conditioned on treasurer approval, and voted 5-0 to nominate member Steve Warshall as the board's representative to the Historic District Commission. A joint public hearing with the Select Board on Village Center Core building-height reductions is set for March 12 at 6 p.m.
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Source: the Planning Board meeting of February 24, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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