Upcoming Meetings

Upcoming meetings

May 11, 2006 -- 7:30 PM.
Uplands Advisory Committee, meeting. Town Hall.

May 30, 2006 -- 6:30 - 10 PM
Friends of Alewife Reservations Benefit for Alewife Woodlands: Maple Floodplain Forest in the Urban Wild.
Temple Beth El, 2 Concord Ave., Belmont, free Parking available, handicapped accessible.
Tuesday, 6:30 to 8:00 Forum
8:30-10:00pm: New England's Reunion Blue Grass Band
Local players formerly with Southern Rail, Hazel Dickens, Joe Val and New England Blue Grass Boys, Don Stover. Recordings with Rounder Records
Forum speakers on forest and wetlands preservation: U.S. Forest Service representative; Patrick Fairbairn, Senior Ecologist from Normandeau Assoc.; Dr. David Morimoto, Director; Natural Science and Mathematics Dept., Lesley University; Local Historican, Jane Sherwin on Belmont Uplands farms; Dr. Michael Baram, Tufts University, Dept. of Environmental Law, Virginia Fuller, Mass Wildlife.
$10 donations requested.

ZBA Meeting Agenda May 31st (7:30 PM in the Town Hall)

OFFICE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Homer Building
19 Moore Street
Belmont, Massachusetts 02478
617-993-2666, fax; 617-993-2651

ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS, May 31, 2006
7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. PUBLIC HEARING -- THE RESIDENCES AT ACORN PARK (continued from 5/8/06)

AGENDA
Meeting called to order
7:35, Environmental Review
Documentation of Existing Resources and Boundaries
Regulatory Compliance and Assessment of Proposed Mitigations Measures
Land under Water Bodies and Banks
Bordering Vegetated Wetlands
Land Subject to Flooding
Riverfront
Vernal Pools
Wildlife

10:00, Adjourn
Next Meeting: Wednesday, June 28, 7:30 - 10:00
Homer Building, 3rd Floor, Art Gallery
Topic: Begin Civil Engineering Review (Stormwater)

Inform yourself about the topic, show up, and ask your questions. Get your concerns out in the public eye and insist on detailed answers. Even if another person asks the same question you meant to ask, clarify the answer. The developer's consultants may try to minimize the problems, discount your concerns. Don't let them! Remember, there's a lot to lose here and much to be gained, including protection of this natural site and keeping taxes within a normal range.

June 1 - reception at 7 PM
Art Benefit for Belmont Silver Maple Forest
Massachusetts Audubon Society Habitat. The oil paintings of Sarah Leon. Series of Alewife woodlands landscapes For more views of her works see, www.artofsarahleon.com.
Audubon Habitat: 10 Juniper Road, 5 minutes from downtown Belmont.
Call Friends of Alewife Reservation (617) 661-1730.

June 28, 2006 -- 7:30 PM
The Belmont Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) will begin to look at issues related to stormwater and drainage. Town Hall Annex.

We need your help! Please send your financial contributions (make check out to Uplands Alternative Group) and send to Barbara Passero, Secretary and Outreach Coordinator, Uplands Alternative Group, 31 Grant Ave., Belmont, MA 02478. We are not a formal non-profit organization, so your contribution will not be tax deductible. However, we have expenses such as maintaining this website, printing and distributing flyers and newsletters, holding community meetings, etc.