Meeting Agenda
The following is the Notice of Meeting and, at the time of posting, a listing of topics that the President reasonably anticipates will be discussed at the Regular Meeting of the City Council on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, Woburn City Hall, 10 Common Street, Woburn. The order of the matters may be amended at the meeting.
- Roll Call.
- Reading of Previous Meetings Journal.
- Communications from His Honor the Mayor:
- Order authorizing Mayor to accept FY2024 Chapter 90 funds.
- New Petitions:
- New England Orienteering Club for a Special Event Permit for a map and compass sport event at Horn Pond, parking lot and Arlington Road on August 27, 2023.
- Lord Hobo for a Special Event Permit to allow a road race starting at 5 Draper Street and along area streets on August 12, 2023.
- Social Capital Inc. for a Special Event Permit for SCI Woburn Horn Pond Summer Concert Series, July 14th & 28th, August 11th & 25th at Horn Pond Ice House Park.
- Musto Jewelers for renewal of Secondhand Dealers and Secondhand Collectors License at 186 Cambridge Road, #9.
- Crown Castle NG East, LLC for grant of right in a way to install PVC Communication Conduit approximately two feet southerly from Utility Pole #620/6 on Cabot Road to a proposed Crown Castle Handhole, to Telephone MH #35/221A, at 11 Cabot Road.
- Crown Castle NG East, LLC for grant of right in a way to install PVC Communication Conduit approximately 54 feet northerly from Telephone MH #35/223 on Cabot Road to a proposed Crown Castle Handhole, to new ADDD 1019 conduit (Microtrench) to private property, at 35 Cabot Road.
- Craft Detailing Inc. for a special permit to allow for the following: Automobile and truck repair garage under Section 5.1(44); and 2. Groundwater Protection District under Section 15.6, at 38 High Street, Unit 5.
- RAM 0 Cross Street LLC petition to amend Section 20 Woburn Loop Bikeway/Greenway Overlay District of the WZO by revising Section 5(i) and adding new Section 5(j) Buffer Requirements and new Section 7 Associate Criteria.
- Cabot, Cabot & Forbes LLC requesting extension of special permit at 0 New Boston Street until January 4, 2026.
- Public Hearings:
- NStar Electric Company, d/b/a Eversource Energy for grant of right in a way to install approximately 341 feet of conduit from Pole 282/10, located on Beach Street, to private property.
- NStar Electric Company, d/b/a Eversource Energy for grant of right in a way to install approximately 574 feet of conduit form Pole 625/1, east of Forest Park Road, to end of Thomas Street.
- NStar Electric Company, d/b/a Eversource Energy for grant of right in a way to install approximately 44 feet of conduit from MH7828 in Main Street to one new manhole MH31872 in Campbell Street.
- NStar Electric Company, d/b/a Eversource Energy for grant of right in a way to install approximately 96 feet of conduit from MH19547 in Main Street to one new manhole MH31874 in Franklin Street.
- NStar Electric Company, d/b/a Eversource Energy for grant of right in a way to install on new hip guy on existing pole P151/3, in Mishawum Road.
- Super Dog Groomer for a special permit under Section 7.3.1 of the WZO to allow for dog grooming use, at 77 Winn Street.
- Pressed Ventures Woburn LLC for a special permit under Section 5.1(29) to allow for a fast food restaurant, and for an amended site plan for previously issued special permit, at 369 Washington Street.
- 288 MISHRD LLC c/o Tim Casey for a special permit under Section 7.3 of the WZO to allow for the renovation of an existing nonconforming building and reconfiguration of the rear parking area, at 288 Mishawum Road.
- Unfinished Business from Previous Meetings:
- Order to appropriate $22,000,000 for costs of designing, constructing and equipping water treatment plant improvements for the removal of PFAS and authorization to borrow such funds.
- Committee Reports:
- Capital Budget FY 2024 – order to transfer 4,303,737.00 from Unreserved Fund Balance Acct to Various Capital Projects (OTP)
- Citizen’s Participation: None.
- Communications and Reports:
- Parking Clerk Report for May 2023.
- Appointments and Elections:
- Reappointment of Timothy J. Donovan to the Commission on Disability.
- Appointment of Lisa Ann Gately to the Woburn Golf & Ski Authority.
- Motions, Orders and Resolutions:
- Order adding new subsection 12-41(M) of the WMC prohibiting hunting or trapping on Whispering Hill off of Cambridge Road.