Analysis: Town and Schools

Conservation Commission — meetings

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Coming up

Nothing on the calendar for a future date. The site was last updated 2026-10-24; a meeting noticed since then appears when it is next built.

Likely next meeting · our estimate

Wed, Nov 4, 2026, usually 7:00 pmin 11 days

It usually meets on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month. Nothing is posted yet.

This guess would have been right 24 of 24 times over the last year.

How this is worked out

Read off the dates this board has met, not from anything it published. 24 of its 36 meetings in the year to 2026-10-24 fell on that pattern; the last was Wed, Oct 21, 2026.

The test: after each meeting in the last year we named the next date from what was known that day. The board met on the date named 24 of 24 times, and its actual next meeting came within a week of it 22 times.

We show an estimate only when both are at least 70% over at least 6 tries, and the board has met recently. That threshold is our choice, not a rule anybody published. A posted agenda always replaces this card; the Open Meeting Law requires notice 48 hours ahead, not counting weekends and holidays. Worked out as of 2026-10-24.

Every meeting, newest first

dateour minutesrecordingagendaofficial minutes
Oct 21 2026Conservation Commission approved several wetland filings, a revised Cowry ADA trail plan advanced, and $950 Hollis Road electrical work was approved. · 20 votesvideoagendanot available
Oct 7 2026Commission approved several septic and other compliance certificates and two NOIs, and continued most hearings to October 21. · 19 votes · 10 differences from the official minutesvideo—minutes
Oct 3 2026needs videonot availableagendanot available
Sep 16 2026Conservation Commission approved the Lake Shirley boat ramp rebuild with wetland buffer waivers. · 15 votes · 2 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Sep 12 2026needs videoMISSINGagendaMISSING
Sep 2 2026Commission voted to redesign the Cowry Nature Center ADA trail route to avoid direct wetland alteration. · 6 votes · 1 difference from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Aug 19 2026Commission ratified an emergency order clearing a blocked culvert that flooded a Lancaster Ave home. · 9 votes · 1 difference from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Aug 15 2026needs videoMISSINGagendaMISSING
Aug 5 2026Commission to seek Town Meeting authority to set its own wetlands permit fee schedule, vote due mid-September · 11 votes · 3 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Aug 1 2026needs videoMISSINGagendaMISSING
Jul 15 2026needs videoMISSINGagendaminutes
Jul 11 2026needs videoMISSINGagendaMISSING
Jul 1 2026Commission voted to issue an enforcement order for wetlands violations on Massachusetts Avenue · 13 votes · 6 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Jun 27 2026needs videoMISSINGagendaMISSING
Jun 17 2026Commission approved five wetlands permits, set FY27 fund budgets, and resolved a driveway wetlands violation without a fine · 13 votes · 4 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Jun 13 2026needs videoMISSINGagendaMISSING
Jun 3 2026Commission pushed a wetland-crossing home design to relocate outside the buffer, then continued every open case to June 17 · 7 votes · 3 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
May 30 2026needs videoMISSINGagendaMISSING
May 21 2026Conservation Commission held a training workshop on riverfront-area regulations; no votes or business conducted · 0 votesvideoagendaMISSING
May 20 2026Commission continued Unitil's large Mass Ave substation expansion pending a DEP number and a wetland-mitigation choice. · 10 votes · 3 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
May 16 2026needs videoMISSINGagendaMISSING
May 6 2026Commission recommended the town not exercise interest in acquiring two tax-title Hollis Road properties. · 24 votes · 4 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Apr 25 2026needs videoMISSINGagendaMISSING
Apr 15 2026Commission approved a private water main extension without verifying the wetland flags shown on its own plan · 17 votes · 1 difference from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Apr 1 2026Commission approved DPW's Northville Crossing culvert replacement after a years-long right-of-entry delay was resolved. · 16 votes · 2 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Mar 18 2026Commission found unpermitted tree removals at several properties and continued four hearings to April · 6 votes · 5 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Mar 4 2026Commission voted not to exercise the town's right of first refusal on a chapter 61 forestry parcel · 9 votes · 2 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Feb 18 2026Lake Shirley's whole-lake herbicide treatment killed invasive fanwort but also cut native plants and clarity · 11 votes · 7 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Feb 4 2026Commission approved Hickory Hills dam tree removal for dam-safety compliance; continued four hearings to Feb 18 · 5 votes · 4 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Jan 28 2026Commission voted to submit two trail-parking grant applications and commit Timber Rights Fund money as the match. · 7 votes · 4 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Jan 21 2026needs videoMISSINGagendaMISSING
Jan 7 2026Conservation agent Herlin goes full-time Feb 9; trail grooming approved only on mapped trails · 14 votes · 3 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Dec 17 2025Commission halted a volunteer's mountain-bike trail grooming until he submits a mapped plan and gets permission · 9 votes · 4 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Dec 3 2025Commission ruled a proposed three-season porch sits entirely in the wetland no-structure zone, blocking it as designed · 8 votes · 7 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Nov 19 2025Commission continued the Safe Store 30 Summer Street flood-plain project hearing; approved two smaller wetlands permits · 6 votes · 1 difference from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Nov 5 2025Commission approved three Lake Shirley/Wham shoreline-stabilization projects and reviewed two active erosion violations. · 7 votes · 5 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Oct 15 2025Commission will refer unauthorized trail-building in town conservation land to the town attorney. · 5 votes · 2 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Oct 1 2025Commission approved a four-lot common driveway crossing wetlands twice, with two-year monitoring required · 9 votes · 2 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Sep 17 2025Commission may lose unused recreational-trails grant money if a Dec. 31 deadline isn't extended · 5 votes · 1 difference from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Sep 3 2025Most hearings continued to Sept. 17 for missing erosion-control details; three compliance certificates approved. · 9 votes · 5 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes

40 meetings, by today’s date rather than the day the site was built — so a meeting moves here on its own. Which are missing a record: missing records. For a program, every agenda and set of minutes as one text file: /minutes/conservation-commission.txt.

As of 2026-10-24. All boards.

What changed

Version 15 — updated September 20, 2026