Harvard Kennedy School Model Finds Permitting Delays Top Barrier to Brighton Street Development Belmont Select Board receives Harvard Kennedy School feasibility model warning that permitting delays undercut Brighton Street development.
Capital Budget Committee outlines next-year priorities, identifies funding gaps Comprehensive Capital Budget Committee sets next-year priorities on enterprise funds and infrastructure. Chair Chris Doyle and six voting committee members discussed financing options for sewer and stormwater enterprise funds but noted insufficient taxpayer-impact detail and current-cost
Land Management Committee approves trail closures, bike signage for Lone Tree Hill. Land Management Committee for Lone Tree Hill approves trail modifications and Waypoint Adventure barn use. The committee unanimously voted to close a trail crossing from Belmont Hill Club property to Lone Tree Hill by placing boulders in a stone wall gap, install "no-bike" signage on the Pine
Select Board approves Homer Building restoration contract and town clerk raise. Belmont Select Board greenlights $431,000 Homer Building restoration and town clerk raise. Chair Matthew Taylor presided over unanimous votes approving a Greenwood Industries contract for slate roof repairs, masonry work, and repointing at the historic building, funded through the Community
Belmont Town Meeting backs paramedic funding, hybrid-meeting petition Belmont Town Meeting funds a $125,000 paramedic pilot and votes to seek permanent hybrid-meeting authority.