Cambridge Highlands Neighborhood Association

Another update from Elizabeth Grady

Please forward this letter on to the Highlands listserve. I will send along the names/phone numbers/email addresses of the Belmont selectmen as soon as I get them. A few phone calls/messagess from Cambridge would be helpful.Betsy

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Just recieved this from Elizabeth Grady

Please take the time to contact the following Belmont selectmen (this will have to be done in a short period of time) and State Representative Will Brownsberger to express your displeasure at proposed development of the Uplands Maple Forest that borders both Belmont and Cambridge, behind the ADL complex. Cambridge has gone on record with a City Council resolution that opposes the development, and has refused sewerage linkups to Belmont. The developers are still speaking of the “possibility” of a Cambridge sewer link up, plus publicly stated at a meeting last week that Cambridge will “probably” do the snowplowing on the access road to the development. So in their world, Cambridge taxes will pay for Belmont’s plowing. This proposed development of nearly 300 units is an utter disaster for traffic on Blanchard Road, let alone environmental inpact on one of the last pieces of undeveloped land in the Greater Boston area. The Belmont Winn Brook neighborhood has mobilized around the issue, fearing flooding, raw sewerage in basements, and congestion, and the project has the same import for our neighborhood as well. See the following 12/31/06 Boston Globe article. Please let your voice be heard.

Betsy Grady

Contact numbers/email addresses:

Will Brownsberger (Belmont selectman and state rep)
(617) 489- 6437, 489-2612 (work)
wb@willsbrownberger.com

Angelo Firenze (Belmont selectman)
(617) 484-544 angelo@angelofirenze.com

Paul Solomon (Belmont selectman)
(617) 484-0117 solomon@massmed.org

Continue reading Protecting the Uplands Update

Notice to Belmont Uplands Committees and Other Interested Citizens

Subject: Preliminary Strategy Session for Belmont Zoning Board Meeting Concerning the Belmont Uplands Development. Scheduled for 01/02/2007

When: Tuesday, Jan. 2,2007 7:00 PM – 9:00PM

Where: Belmont Public Library, Staff Room, Concord Avenue, Belmont, MA.

Agenda:

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Hi,

I spoke with Betsy regarding the location of this property.

For those who remember the skating rink off of Route 2, the property is adjacent to this. For those who do not, the property is on the access road on the way to the old Arthur D Little property.

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