Conservation panel closes three wetland hearings
The Scituate Conservation Commission voted 5-0 to close hearings and issue orders of conditions for three wetland projects while continuing a 24-unit Chapter 40B development.
Conservation · Meeting of August 31, 2026
SCITUATE — The Scituate Conservation Commission voted 5-0 to close hearings and issue orders of conditions for three wetland projects while continuing a 24-unit Chapter 40B development. Chair Frank Snow presided over the roughly two-hour remote session, where Commissioner Penny Scott-Pipes said of the First Parish Road housing proposal, "I want housing. It's not that I'm against housing.
It's what's happening to the critters out there." Town Counsel Bryan Bertram told the panel that a comprehensive permit "doesn't automatically go poof" on the local wetlands bylaw. The commission closed hearings for an addition at 11 Tenth Avenue and a new home on Bailey's Island, where tree removal was cut from 36 to 24 and impervious surface will drop by more than 6,000 square feet. Hearings on 208 Stockbridge Road and 55 Rebecca Road were continued to September 21 and September 9.
The First Parish Road hearing was continued to October 5 pending revised engineering plans.
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Source: the Conservation meeting of August 31, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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