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Neighbors tell council Leonard School promises vanished; council asks law, public-properties offices to review RFP process
Summary
A neighbor accused city officials of failing to preserve promised open space around the Leonard School site and said a developer began clearing before a site plan was filed; city economic development staff denied unauthorized clearing and the council voted to refer RFP oversight and public-submission procedures to the law and public-properties offices.
Resident Jen Hoy told the Taunton City Council that residents were promised neighborhood input and a protective buffer for the woods adjacent to the Leonard School site but that the assurances were not included in the Request for Proposals (RFP) and were not recorded in meeting minutes. "If promises or assurances made in this chamber do not make it into the record ... then who is running this government?" Hoy asked, urging the council to verify who served on the pre-RFP committee and to demand a full site-plan review with neighborhood…
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