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Planning board supports placing citizens' petition to excise two Wallace Road homes on the ballot after split public comment

Bedford Planning Board · January 12, 2026
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Summary

After extensive public comment for and against a citizens' petition to remove two recently built Wallace Road houses from the Bedford Historic District, the planning board voted to support placing the petition on the March ballot; the petition cannot be edited by the board and will go to voters in its submitted form.

The Planning Board on Jan. 12 heard more than an hour of public testimony about a citizen petition seeking to remove two parcels at 320 and 324 Wallace Road from the Bedford Historic District and voted to support placing that petition on the March ballot.

Planning Director Becky Hebert described the petition and noted a small mapping anomaly: if the petition passed, a roughly 1,700-square-foot sliver of land (part of nearby 328 Wallace Road) would remain inside the district and could be addressed by a future…

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