Weston Planning Committee Defers Open Space Plan Vote, Reviews Draft Sections

WESTON — March 23, 2026 — Weston's Unified Planning Committee deferred a vote on supporting the town's Open Space and Recreation Plan and advanced work on its draft comprehensive plan at a March 23 session. Committee Chair Danielle Black, representing the Council on Aging, led the two-hour working meeting, during which members approved prior minutes unanimously and heard that two candidates — Alan Day and Carlos Lucio — were set to be interviewed the following morning for a vacant committee seat. Members cited incomplete review of the plan's 170 pages and a 300-page appendix, with Resident At Large Robert Scott calling the agricultural section "practically depressing" and Planning Board member Leslie Glenn noting the planning board had its own unresolved concerns. The committee also worked through a cross-cutting themes matrix touching on stormwater management, low-impact development, fiscal pressure from capital projects, and transportation, with staff presenting a revised transportation section the group judged substantially complete. The committee is behind its original goals-drafting schedule, with the next working session set for April 13.