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Design Funds for Phase 3 Pass on Consent Calendar Vote
Sudbury’s Annual Town Meeting was dominated by debate on the Select Board’s proposed Firearms Safety Business Use Zoning Bylaw on Monday night, but a consent calendar loaded with more than two dozen articles passed overwhelmingly with a vote of 241-10 and no debate in the hall.
Among those articles, Town Meeting approved Article 36, which provided up to $600,000 in Community Preservation Act funds for the purpose of “advancing the design and construction of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail (BFRT) Phase 3, extending south of the intersection with the Mass Central Rail Trail to Eaton Road West near the Framingham city line.”
Article 40 also passed on the consent calendar. The article provided up to $100,000 in Community Preservation Act funds to study and design an improved driveway at Parkinson Field. That property already has a parking lot and an accessible pathway to get onto the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail.
On Tuesday night, Town Meeting will take up Article 17; which deals with the acquisition of MBTA-owned buildings along the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail and Mass Central Rail Trail. The properties include the Railroad Section House on Route 20 near Mill Village, and the South Sudbury Railroad Station Building near the intersection of the two rail trails and the intersection of Union Ave. with Station Road.