Town Meeting and Special Town Meeting concluded last night so today we have stories on the key votes. You can get a snapshot of the votes on all the articles in our Town Meeting Tracker.
We’ll be back Friday with a wrap up and with other news stories of the week.
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TM votes to move Quiet Zone forward with $8.2 million plan
By Peter O’Neil
The long-studied and much-debated effort to establish a Quiet Zone in Needham took a major step forward May 11 when Special Town Meeting voted overwhelmingly to appropriate $8.2 million for […]
New zoning regs passed to tee up Hillcrest Gardens development
By Peter O’Neil
Town Meeting granted the owner of 888 Great Plain Ave. the zoning changes needed to bring a project before the Planning Board that could allow a four-story mixed-use project at […]
Town Meeting passes pro-democracy resolution after some debate
By Kay Matipa
In the last decision of Special Town Meeting, Needham went on the record as a defender of democracy. A majority vote approved the citizens’ petition to champion Constitutional principles and […]
Citizen petitions spawned by Envision
By Bob Baker and Jeanne Hopkins
Two of the citizen’s petitions voted on at Town Meeting were born out of frustration with the Envision Needham Center Project. One was a non-binding resolution that put Town Meeting […]
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