Williamstown Planning Board endorses Bee Hill Road land-line adjustment
Williamstown Planning Board endorses Bee Hill Road land swap, digs into subdivision rule rewrite.
Planning Board · Meeting of August 11, 2026
Williamstown Planning Board endorses Bee Hill Road land swap, digs into subdivision rule rewrite. Chair Ken Kuttner and members Cory Campbell, Roger Lawrence, Samantha Page and Erik Reardon voted 5-0 by roll call to endorse an Approval Not Required plan adding roughly 0.408 acres to 93 Bee Hill Road, a transfer surveyor Brian Casella said took two years due to Massachusetts Land Court delays, not town review. The board then spent most of the meeting reviewing a consultant-drafted rewrite of subdivision regulations, debating street cross-sections, Cape Cod berm curbing and sidewalk requirements.
Lawrence warned a proposed drainage swale slope "would creep." Campbell said of sidewalks, "I'm really conflicted on this because I love sidewalks," pushing for stronger requirements. The board set a four-year infrastructure completion deadline, invoking the Sweet Farm subdivision's 20-year sellout after the 2008 crash, and is targeting a public hearing for November.
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Source: the Planning Board meeting of August 11, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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