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Votes at a glance: Southborough Planning Board continues several hearings, approves minutes
Summary
At its Oct. 20 meeting, the Southborough Planning Board approved minutes from Sept. 29 and voted to continue three public hearings — highway major retail, accessory dwelling unit and 2 East Main Street — to Oct. 27; it also extended decision deadlines for 2 East Main Street.
The Southborough Planning Board on Monday approved one set of minutes and voted to continue three public hearings to the planning board's pre-special-town-meeting session on Oct. 27.
The board voted to approve the Sept. 29, 2025, meeting minutes, accepted several editorial corrections as discussed during the meeting and recorded the minutes as amended. The board then made and approved motions to continue the public hearings for the select-board-sponsored highway major retail zoning amendment, the accessory dwelling unit (ADU) zoning amendment and the 2 East Main Street multi-family site plan/special permit to Oct. 27, 2025, with staggered start times the board set for its pre-town-meeting session. The board also extended the decision deadline for 2 East Main Street.
Why it matters: the continuances preserve the board's ability to finalize findings, draft decisions and compile a planning-board report for the town meeting while allowing applicants and peer reviewers additional time to respond to outstanding technical comments.
Votes and formal actions recorded at the meeting (tallies reflect roll-call statements read into the record): - Motion to approve minutes for the meeting of Sept. 29, 2025 — approved. Vote read as: Luttrell, yes; Lihan, yes; Jamiria, yes; Rascio, yes; Dolniak, yes (5-0). Motion moved and seconded on the record. - Motion to continue proposed zoning amendment (highway major retail) to Oct. 27, 2025, 5:30 p.m. (pre-STM meeting) — approved unanimously on voice roll-call recorded as Luttrell, yes; Lihan, yes; Jamiria, yes; Rascio, yes; Dolniak, yes. - Motion to continue public hearing on accessory dwelling unit zoning amendment to Oct. 27, 2025, 5:35 p.m. — approved unanimously on roll-call recorded as Luttrell, yes; Lihan, yes; Jamiria, yes; Rascio, yes; Dolniak, yes. - Motion to continue two public hearings for 2 East Main Street (major site plan approval and special permit, downtown district) to Oct. 27, 2025, 5:15 p.m. — approved unanimously on roll-call recorded as Luttrell, yes; Lihan, yes; Jamiria, yes; Rascio, yes; Dolniak, yes. - Motion to extend decision due dates for 2 East Main Street (MSPA and SP downtown district) to Oct. 31, 2025 — motion seconded and approved on the record. - Motion to adjourn — approved by roll-call recorded as Luttrell, yes; Houlihan, yes; Tamiria, yes; Brashear, yes; Dolniak, yes.
What the votes do not decide: none of the continuances carried final approvals or denials; they schedule further board consideration and preserve the municipal review timeline.
The board's next scheduled meeting before the town's special town meeting will be a pre-STM session on Oct. 27; several applicants asked the board to use that meeting to finalize decisions and planning-board reporting ahead of town meeting.
