Wayland Town Crier 12/2/11: Is the end in sight for work at Route 126/27 intersection?. It has been two weeks since the last article on the Route 126/27 intersection. So what happened the week of Nov. 14? A lot! The week started with setting the granite curbing, continuing with work on the traffic “loops,” finishing up the catch basins, and other work, all in preparation for the main event, the paving of the road.
Written on December 2, 2011 | Posted in
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The following is a press release submitted by Town Administrator Fred Turkington: Twenty Wayland, LLC, the developers of the Town Center project under construction at 400-440 Boston Post Road, filed suit late last week against the Town and the Wastewater Management District Commission (WWMDC). The complaint alleges the Town and WWMDC have breached the [...]
Written on November 22, 2011 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 11/12/11: Work continues at intersection in anticipation of Town Center. During the week of Oct. 31, work on the Route 126/27 intersection began in earnest. The portion of the work that was most noticeable was the removal of the traffic island. The island must be removed to allow Route 27 to be [...]
Written on November 13, 2011 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 11/6/11: Road work begins in anticipation of new Town Center. For the past few weeks there have been signs that work on the new Town Center has begun. The first visible evidence was the removal of the Raytheon building’s windows. Not as visible as the removal of the windows, but just as significant, was the removal of the internal equipment inside the building. All of this was to prepare the building for demolition. The reason the demolition of the Raytheon building is important is that it meets the requirements of an out-of-court settlement between Twenty Wayland, the developer of the project, and the Wayland Historic District Commission. The parties agreed that 50 percent of the Raytheon building had to be demolished before work could start on the roads within Wayland’s historic district. Last week the demolition of the building began.
Written on November 7, 2011 | Posted in
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Submitted by The Board of Selectmen Great things are happening in Wayland. This past March a state of the art town pool opened for business. This coming January all eyes will be on the new high school when it opens its doors. And, if you haven’t noticed, there is, at last, activity on the Town [...]
Written on November 1, 2011 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 9/3/11: Comments welcome on Wayland Town Center project. Residents got the chance to comment this week on environmental issues surrounding the long-awaited Town Center project on the former Raytheon site. Several residents shared their concerns at a meeting Thursday night. Others can find text of the plan at the town library, board [...]
Written on September 4, 2011 | Posted in
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Boston Globe 7/3/11: Long-delayed Town Center set to start – The Boston Globe. Construction is set to start this summer on a commercial, housing, and retail development in Wayland that supporters say will create a community gathering place and generate much-needed property tax revenue. After seven years of planning, town officials say developers of the Town Center project have finally secured all the necessary permits and approvals to break ground. The last major obstacle was a permit to connect to a wastewater treatment facility, which was granted by the state last month. Town Administrator Fred Turkington said developer Twenty Wayland will hold off until the appeal process on the wastewater permit is completed and then get to work. An exact construction date was not available, but the demolition of an existing building on the property could start as soon as next week if there are no appeals to the permit, Turkington said.
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Wayland Town Crier 6/9/11: Twenty Wayland gets key sewer permit . The developer of a retail and housing project in the center of town has received a key state permit, and builders and town officials say work could begin as soon as next month. The state Department of Environmental Protection gave approval this week to developer Twenty Wayland to discharge up to 45,000 gallons of wastewater per day from the proposed Wayland Town Center project to the town's new treatment facility, due to be completed in early 2012.
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Wayland Patch 6/8/11: MassDEP Issues Permit for Wayland Town Center Sewer Connection. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has approved the sewer connection permit Twenty Wayland requested in order to move forward with the Wayland Town Center project. The permit allows for a total discharge from the Town Center of 45,000 gallons per day to Wayland’s wastewater treatment plant, which is permitted to treat 52,000 gpd. Phase I of construction is permitted at 28,000 gpd, and the additional 17,000 gallons are part of Phase II. As part of the Town Center project, Twenty Wayland will construct a sewage pump station, which will eventually be owned and operated by the Town of Wayland, to move the sewage to the treatment plant.
Written on June 8, 2011 | Posted in
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Mass DEP 6/7/11: Mass DEP issues Permit for Town Center sewer connection permit. They also issued these responses to comments to public questions prior to and at the May 19 DEP Public Hearing. This was the final permit needed to enable the Town Center project to proceed, and developer Twenty Wayland intends to commence the project in July.
Written on June 7, 2011 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 5/26/11: DEP decision on Town Center project expected soon. An overflow crowd filled the Large Meeting Room of the Wayland Town Building last week to give testimony to two representatives from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) regarding the application for a sewer connection submitted by Twenty Wayland in connection with the long-pending Town Center project. The permit would allow the proposed development to link up to the new wastewater treatment facility now under construction on the former Raytheon property. The new plant will have a capacity of 52,000 gallons per day.
Written on May 26, 2011 | Posted in
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Wayland Patch 5/21/11: Wayland Turns Out En Masse for Town Center Sewer Connection Hearing. Sewer connections have never been a more popular topic of conversation. Thursday afternoon Kevin Brander, chief of the wastewater section for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, and Eric Worrall, deputy regional director of the Massachusetts DEP’s northeast division, presided over a standing-room-only public hearing crowd in the Town Building’s Large Hearing Room. The topic: The sewer connection permit for the proposed Wayland Town Center.
Written on May 21, 2011 | Posted in
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Town of Wayland 4/13/11: Mass DEP Public Hearing on Town Center Sewer Permit May 19 2011. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) has scheduled a public hearing on Thursday, May 19, 2011 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Wayland Town Building (Large Hearing Room) to receive public comment on the application of Twenty Wayland, LLC to connect to the Wastewater Treatment Facility. MassDEP scheduled the public hearing in response to public comments on the draft permit and requests for a public hearing received from six citizens. A copy of the public hearing legal notice, application of Twenty Wayland, LLC, and MassDEP’s tentative determination on the permit application can be viewed here. Complete details on the background for the hearing are available online here.
Written on May 15, 2011 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 1/7/11: State says Wayland board broke meeting law. The attorney general's office has ruled the Board of Selectmen violated the state's Open Meeting Law in an executive session last summer. The attorney general's review resulted from a complaint filed by local attorney and former selectman George Harris. In the latest ruling, Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Sclarsic wrote that selectmen were allowed to go into executive session last July to discuss traffic for the Town Center project, as it was subject to the litigation between the Historic District Commission and Twenty Wayland, the developer, but it should have reconvened in open session to approve a traffic certificate.
Written on January 7, 2011 | Posted in
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Wayland Student Press Network 11/22/10: Town center project moving forward. Four years after it was voted in by an 80% margin, the Wayland Town Center project is approaching its final approval. Although numerous issues surrounding the project have arisen from local boards in the past, Wayland town officials expect that high school students will be [...]
Written on November 26, 2010 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 10/13/10: Wayland Town Center suit is settled. A long and contentious stalemate between the Historic District Commission and developers of the Town Center project has ended with a compromise that will allow Twenty Wayland to move forward more quickly with traffic improvements. The commission voted unanimously last night to approve an agreement that settles a lawsuit brought by Twenty Wayland, and to issue a revised certificate of hardship, which will allow the developer to begin roadwork on the intersection of routes 20, 27 and 126 before Town Center construction begins.
Written on October 13, 2010 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 10/5/10: State sides with Wayland officials on Open Meeting Law. In one of its first decisions as the new overseer of the state's Open Meeting Law, the attorney general's office has sided with Wayland town officials in a complaint filed by former selectman George Harris.
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Wayland Town Crier 10/1/10: Historic District Commission hearing on Town Center continued. A hearing on Thursday night between the developers of the proposed Town Center project and the Historic District Commission to discuss the appeal of a certificate of hardship granted to the builder last year was continued until Oct. 12 to allow the commission members additional time to review a new proposal by Twenty Wayland.
Written on October 1, 2010 | Posted in
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Boston Globe 9/16/10: Town Center developer, board approach compromise on traffic. The developers of the Town Center project in Wayland and the town’s Historic District Commission are working on a traffic improvement agreement that could allow the long-stalled plan to move forward. After years of planning, permit hearings, lawsuits, and threats to abandon the project, officials with KGI Properties LLC are expected to attend a commission hearing on Sept. 30 to go over a potential deal.
Written on September 16, 2010 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 9/2/10: Town Center developer and commission try to find common ground. The deadlock between the Wayland Historic District Commission and Twenty Wayland, developers of the proposed Town Center, appeared slightly closer to a resolution on Wednesday night as the two groups – with their respective attorneys – met to find common ground.
Written on September 3, 2010 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 8/12/10: Heated discussions continue over Town Center project. Despite almost visible sparks in the air at the Board of Selectmen meeting on Monday night, the Historic District Commission and Twenty Wayland, developers of the proposed Town Center project, which have long been at loggerheads, agreed to meet in early September to try to hammer out a compromise on their disagreements.
Written on August 13, 2010 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 6/22/10: Board of Selectmen grill Historic District Commission members. Three longtime members of the Historic District Commission (HDC), as well as a newer alternate member, face an uphill battle for reappointment after angering some town officials who disagreed with a commission ruling that no road work take place in the Historic District until the Town Center project is substantially under way.
Written on June 23, 2010 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 6/15/10: Next Public Involvement Plan meeting for Raytheon site. The next Public Involvement Plan (PIP) meeting for the Raytheon hazardous waste site cleanup is scheduled for Wednesday, June 23 at 7:30pm in the Large Hearing Room in Wayland Town Building. At the meeting, Raytheon will provide a performance summary of the Northern [...]
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Wayland Town Crier 2/2/10: Board of Selectmen stand firm on traffic mitigation for Town Center. The Board of Selectmen dug in its heels on Monday night, refusing to amend traffic mitigation measures in its Development Agreement for the proposed Town Center project, thus continuing a stalemate with the Historic District Commission (HDC) which decreed that no road work take place in the Historic District until the project is substantially under way. Twenty Wayland is in litigation with the HDC over the conditions issued in its decision. "In view of the clear recommendations of our traffic consultant, it would be quite imprudent for the board to fly in the face of that and amend the agreement," said Selectmen Michael Tichnor. The selectmen’s decision was in response to a letter from Twenty Wayland on Jan. 20, in which the developer requested the four parties who previously issued or were party to agreements relative to traffic improvements required for the development to amend their agreements as outlined in the HDC’s certificate of hardship.
Written on February 3, 2010 | Posted in
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Boston Globe 1/31/10: Wayland panel considers compromise offer on plan for former Raytheon site. Wayland’s Historic District Commission is considering a settlement proposal from the developer of the proposed Town Center project that would move it forward nearly four years after it was first approved by Town Meeting. But whether the board will accept the [...]
Written on January 31, 2010 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 1/28/10: Town Center project gets permit from Department of Environmental Protection. Frank Dougherty, project manager for the proposed Town Center development, cited progress on the development last week as the state Department of Environmental Protection issued a conservation permit for the project. In another push to advance the project, Twenty Wayland presented a settlement proposal to the town’s Historic District Commission (HDC) last week in an attempt to resolve recent disagreements involving the placement of a traffic light at the intersection of routes 27 and 126.
Written on January 28, 2010 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 12/27/09: Appeals Court rejects appeal from Town Center developer. The state Appeals Court quickly rejected an appeal from Town Center developer Twenty Wayland, backed by the Wayland town administrator’s office and the Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA), to disallow the town’s Historic District Commission (HDC) from retaining its own attorney in a dispute with the developer.
Written on December 27, 2009 | Posted in
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The Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA), joined by the Town of Wayland, filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in support of the appeal by Twenty Wayland, LLC from the Superior Court decision allowing legal counsel to represent the Wayland Historic District Commission (HDC).
Written on December 18, 2009 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 12/17/09: State group files brief supporting Wayland developer. The Massachusetts Municipal Association and the town of Wayland are backing Town Center developer Twenty Wayland in its efforts to disallow the town’s Historic District Commission from retaining its own attorney in a dispute with the developer.
Written on December 18, 2009 | Posted in
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Metrowest Daily News 11/26/09: Wayland commission OK'd to hire counsel. In an ongoing dispute between the developer of the proposed 372,500 square-foot Town Center project and Wayland's Historic District Commission, a Middlesex Superior Court ruling state the commission may hire its own attorney to represent it in the dispute because Town Counsel Mark Lanza has noted a conflict of interest.
Written on November 27, 2009 | Posted in
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Boston Globe 11/26/09: Wayland trims affordable housing requirement for project at former Raytheon site. Wayland officials say they hope workers will break ground in the spring on a new town center project after Town Meeting last week voted to remove a hurdle that could have tripped it up. After a procedural wrestling match that included three votes over two nights, Town Meeting ultimately approved a change allowing the developer to reduce the number of affordable housing units in the project.
Written on November 26, 2009 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 11/21/09: Town Meeting: Town Center article passes, fails, and then passes again. Moderator Peter Gossels quoted Yogi Berra in reference to last week’s special Town Meeting, saying, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” During the first session on Wednesday night, a proposal to reduce the affordable housing component in the planned 372,500-square-foot [...]
Written on November 22, 2009 | Posted in
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Boston Globe 11/22/09: Wayland Town Meeting OK’s tax hike to pay for new high school. Wayland Town Meeting voters paved the way last week for a new $70.8 million high school and kept the door open for a 372,500-square-foot town center project. School officials hope to break ground on the high school by the spring [...]
Written on November 22, 2009 | Posted in
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Metrowest Daily News 11/19/09: Wayland Town Meeting approves High School project; Town Center in jeopardy. Nine years after school officials in Wayland began lobbying to build a new High School, and following the defeat of two previous proposals, residents at Wednesday night’s special Town Meeting voted overwhelmingly to endorse funds for the $70.8 million construction [...]
Written on November 19, 2009 | Posted in
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The Town will be asked to approve three articles which are part of our financial plan at the November 18th Special Town Meeting: expenditure for a new high school building, modification of the existing zoning for the Mixed Use Overlay District (MUOD or “Town Center”), and passage of the local option meals excise. The Finance Committee [...]
Written on November 6, 2009 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 11/4/09: Wayland resident Charles Irving steps down as point person for Town Center. Wayland resident Charles Irving is stepping down as the main point person on the proposed 372,500-square-foot Town Center project slated for the former Raytheon site across from Russell’s Garden Center.
Written on November 5, 2009 | Posted in
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At its regular meeting October 19, the Wayland Housing Partnership (WHP) voted (6 in favor, 0 against, 1 abstention, 2 absent) to oppose the warrant article in the November 18, 2009 Special Town Meeting [see Article 3] that amends the zoning by-laws re affordable housing in the proposed Town Center project. WHP is a town [...]
Written on November 1, 2009 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 10/7/09: Selectmen negotiate new agreement with Town Center developers. In what one selectman described as “very difficult” discussions, the town has negotiated changes in the development agreement with Town Center developer Twenty Wayland which would reduce affordable housing to 12 rental apartments to be built above retail space and secure the first [...]
Written on October 7, 2009 | Posted in
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Press Release Conservation Commission The article in the Sept. 10, 2009 issue of The Wayland Town Crier ("Town Center project on life support") gave Wayland citizens the incorrect impression that the Conservation Commission has either been responsible for delaying the approval or has denied the Town Center project. In fact, the Conservation Commission issued an [...]
Written on October 2, 2009 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 9/10/09: Town Center project on life support. Town officials are hopeful that a proposal by developer Twenty Wayland to modify its development agreement with the town will keep the Town Center project moving forward. But a proposed zoning change in the agreement will require Town Meeting approval.
Written on September 11, 2009 | Posted in
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The next Public Involvement Plan (PIP) meeting for the Raytheon hazardous waste site cleanup is scheduled for Wednesday, June 10 at 7:30pm in the Large Hearing Room in the Wayland Town Building. At the meeting, Raytheon will provide a performance summary of the Northern Area Bioremediation Program and discuss the June Remedy Operation Status submittal. [...]
Written on June 5, 2009 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 6/4/09: Selectmen discuss ‘pay-as-you-throw,’ Town Center traffic. The Board of Selectmen discussed the new “pay-as-you-throw” (PAYT) system, which is scheduled to go into effect on July 1 at the Transfer Station, as well as signage and fence removal at the former Nike Site on Oxbow Road and Historic District Commission concerns about [...]
Written on June 4, 2009 | Posted in
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Boston.com RBJ is leasing Wayland Business Center. Richards Barry Joyce & Partners LLC, a commercial real estate advisory firm headquartered in Boston, said it has been hired by KGI Properties LLC as the exclusive leasing agent for Wayland Business Center, a 400,000 square foot office building in Wayland.
Written on May 6, 2009 | Posted in
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Metrowest Daily News 4/28/09: Wayland Town Center plan ‘not dead yet’. Selectmen continue to be optimistic that the Town Center project will move forward despite a surprise announcement late last week by the developer, KGI Properties, that it will abandon the $140 million project if it can lease the existing building to office tenants.
Written on April 28, 2009 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 4/25/09: Wayland Town Center project dealt big setback. Residents yesterday expressed disappointment and frustration with news that the proposed Town Center may not happen, though the developer and the selectmen chairman said the project is not officially dead.
Written on April 26, 2009 | Posted in
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Boston Globe 4/25/09: Wayland Town Center project may be abandoned. A Boston development firm said it is abruptly ending a four-year, $140 million effort to build a downtown village in Wayland because it cannot resolve long-running disputes with town officials. KGI Properties Inc. was planning to build stores and 100 condominiums around a new 2-acre [...]
Written on April 25, 2009 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 2/11/09: KGI Properties to become sole owner of Wayland Town Center, after buying out the Congress Group’s partnership interest.
Written on February 11, 2009 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 1/6/09: Town Center project faces more obstacles. An appeal over the EPA’s wastewater treatment plant approvals and remaining Conservation Commission approvals remain as obstacles for the project, which has already been pushed back to a planned spring 2010 opening.
Written on January 9, 2009 | Posted in
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Wayland Town Crier 1/1/09: The Top Stories of 2008: Override passes: Wayland voters pass override; elect Nolan and Correia Pro-override candidates: Wayland voters pass override; elect Nolan and Correia Department of Public Works: Town Meeting votes to create Department of Public Works. Two-and-a-half schools Incumbents keep seats: Wayland voters pass override; elect Nolan and Correia [...]
Written on January 1, 2009 | Posted in
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[Articles published on the Town Center prior to the move to the new WaylandeNews format.] Town Center Documents and Related Links Planning Board’s Town Center documents Town Center Committee website Project Advocates: SOS Wayland Project Opponents: WaylandCARD Official Documents, Reports and Comments regarding Town Center June 25 presentation by Arrowstreet, including the two [...]
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