Mission:
The Land Use Committee reviews local land use activity, proposes solutions to identified concerns or problems, and advocates for them as land use in Acton relates to the Town’s many environmental emergencies: climate, biodiversity, water, toxins, population, and social justice.
The Land Use Committee generally meets on the last Wednesday of the month via Zoom. All members of the public — especially new folks — are welcome to attend.
At each meeting, the committee expects to spend the first half of the two-hour meeting on current goals. Then, as time allows, there is discussion of sustainability matters in regard to specific properties or projects in Town, and/or other public policy matters that have come to the committee’s attention.
Get Involved:
The Land Use Committee can be reached at landuse-contact@greenacton.org.
Whether or not you can attend a meeting, those who live in, work in, or visit Acton are encouraged to suggest land use topics that are relevant to creating a more-sustainable community.
Accomplishments:
- This statement about a proposed development at 67 Powdermill Road, approved by the Green Acton Board of Directors, was shared with the Acton Board of Selectmen (now Acton Select Board) and multiple other Town entities between March 28 and April 1, 2021.
- In 2020, we advocated and succeeded in getting more protection of Acton’s public shade trees. See our statement about protecting public shade trees.
- We prepared a statement regarding the 22 Elm Street development, for which a developer was proposing more single family houses than would be allowed under a standard subdivision by including the lot’s unbuildable wetlands in the calculation for determining the number of houses.