In addition-what guarantees are there as to the proposed “new and improved” landscaping ever being planted, and planted at such scale to make a difference? What enforcement mechanisms are there?
The kicker in the bylaw is “practicable.” Can a design/plan be required to fit the topography and existing landscape? Or, if the applicant preferred design makes it “impracticable” to retain existing landscape, grade and existing vegetation and, does that allow the applicant's preferred design override the Town’s expressed preference for preservation of what is already there? If that is the case, what is the purpose of the bylaw? > On Sep 2, 2025, at 4:53 PM, Barbara Peskin <[email protected]> wrote: > > The mature forest that was clear cut here gave families like this below a > home. > > Our current preservation of landscape bylaw 17.4 states: > ("a) Preservation of Landscape, The landscape shall be preserved in its > natural state insofar as practicable by minimizing any grade changes and > vegetation and soil removal." > > It was designed by those that wrote it, and the Town Meetings that passed it, > to help humans, wildlife and the planet by preserving landscape in its > natural state. I appreciate it, to me it makes Lincoln, Lincoln. > > The Planning Board, 4-1, allowed the intent of that bylaw to be bypassed in > this case. The majority expressed interest in the new plantings experiment. > > Unfortunately, the variety of wildlife that depended on and lived in that > mature forest - close to Chapman Pasture can live there no more. > > <pileatedwoodpeckerandchickswwforweb.DSC07947.png> > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM Vicky Diadiuk <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> That is what Planning Board bylaws 17.7 and 17.7.4 require. >> >> Instead, on April 22, 2025, the Planning Board approved, with a 4-1 vote, a >> site review proposal on Old Winter Street that would cut down at least 137 >> mature healthy trees on 3.8 acres to build a driveway and eventually one >> house. >> >> Attached are "before" and "after" photos of the land. >> >> This project decimated a living forest & all the creatures that live in it, >> & decreased the CO2 sequestration that all those trees provided. >> >> Whatever happened to Lincoln's identity as an environmentally-minded Town?? >> All the Town organizations charged with defending Lincoln's natural >> environment failed to uphold the values of the Town & the trust placed in >> them by Townspeople. >> >> Let's make sure something like this never happens again! >> >> Vicky Diadiuk >> >> > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Barbara Peskin > > My Moments in Nature Photo Gallery: barbarapeskin.com > <http://barbarapeskin.com/> > -- > The LincolnTalk mailing list. > To post, send mail to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/. > Change your subscription settings at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln.
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