Wednesday, January 30, 2013
You ask, Patch will get some sort of answer. Also check the town's list of the "worst of the worst" roads in town.
In the Belmont Patch article posted Tuesday on the 16 streets and roads the Belmont Office of Community Development will reconstruct this year, the leading criteria used by the town was a rating placed on each road in Belmont with a lower number coinsiding with the throughfares with the most need of attention. For example, Cambridge Street – one of the lucky 16 choosen for repair in 2013 – was rated at 30, the lowest among the selected streets. In one of his comments about the article, "amp" asked "Does anyone know if the list that describes the 'rating' of the town's roadways is available?" So Belmont Patch asked Glenn Clancy, the Community Development director and the town's engineer, just how Belmont grades its roads: "Each road was …
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
A total of 16 streets will be reconstructed during the 2013 constructions season.
Residents living on Cambridge Street don't have to be convinced that they live on a road that needs to be repaired. Decades after its last reconstructed, the side street off of Waverley Street is rough and threadbare, rating a 30 on the town's scale of road conditions, one of the lowest in Belmont. But sometime between when the leaves turn this spring and before the first freeze this fall, Cambridge along with 15 other town roads – including the streets with the shortest names in town; A, B and C streets – will be reconstructed and repaved as long-awaited repairs to town streets was announced at Monday night's, Jan. 28, Belmont Board of Selectmen meeting in Town Hall. Glenn Clancy, director of Belmont's Office of Community Development, …
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Belmont Town Hall
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The Office of Community Development
19 Moore St, Belmont, MA
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Cambridge St & Waverley St, Belmont, MA
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Public unveiling brings walking maps to town website and to library and other sites.
"Grab a map and start walking," said Jay Szklut, Belmont's planning and economic development manager, at the conclusion of the public unveiling of walkBoston's map of walking routes around Belmont. "This will be a great community asset," said Jenny Fallon, who worked with the town and walkBoston on the project. Belmont is one of only four towns this year receiving grants from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and the Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization for walkBoston to produce a community walking map. Belmont is an ideal community for walking because of its compact size and it has very good sidewalks which allow for a greater degree of personal safety and for people to take children, said Fallon. One hope of the map, …
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Common St & Concord Ave, Belmont, MA
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Friday, May 4, 2012
Grant from walkBoston allowed town to put interesting routes onto map.
One advantage to living in Belmont is that nearly any place you want to go to you can do so by putting your shoes on and walking to it. The schools, business centers, transportation lines and recreation area are all within walking distance. In fact, it could probably take a person less time to walk the 20 minutes from Cushing Square to Belmont Center then it would driving and trying to find a close by parking space. Now Belmont is about to help residents and vistors explore more attractions via foot when town officials and staff join residents to unveil the "Belmont Walking Map" at a press conference on Monday, May 7 at 6 p.m. at the Wellington Station next to the First Church Belmont at the intersection of Common Street and Concord Avenue…
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
11 years after initial study, town ready to being process of deciding what to put on landfill.
After 11 years of studies, money and debate, the beginning of a new chapter for the former incinerator and transfer station off Concord Avenue near the Lexington line is about to be written as the town's Office of Community Development will ask Town Meeting in May for $824,000 to obtain designs, permits and demolish the incinerator building to prepare the location to be "capped." Not that Belmont had much choose in the matter; the state's Department of Environmental Protection has ordered the landfill site – which operated as a trash incinerator and transfer station from 1959 to 1973 – sealed since the beginning of the last decade. Yet while the town will environmentally "cap" the site – by placing layers of sand, soil and other material …
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1150 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Once contentious, state's first solar installation regs are quick becoming a sought after item.
Having once been a "contentious" discussion between supporters of solar energy and town officials, yesterday the Belmont Planning Board agreed with the town's Energy Committee on a new draft of solar panel installation regulations that will be brought to Belmont's annual Town Meeting for its approval next week. "It has been a coming together of all sides to where now reasonable restrictions will be in place that protects both residents and those who wish to see solar systems in town," said Planning Board Chairman Sami Baghdady at an early morning meeting of the board on Tuesday, April 18. "I am pleased with both the structure and content of the draft solar zoning bylaw as it is currently written," said Energy Committee's co-chair Roger …
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
Last year's work seen lacking, town has paving company back to get it right.
Just like when your parents made you remake your bed because it wasn't "up to standards," Belmont has a road contractor back on Upper Concord Avenue for a redo of work performed nearly a year ago. According to Glenn Clancy, director of the town's Community Development Office, he, town officials and residents "were not satisfied with the quality of paving work done on the road last fall" completed at the tail end of major renovations to the roadway on Belmont Hill including repairing storm drains. After discussions, the general contractor – Bridges Contracting and the paving subcontractor, PJ Keating – has come back to redo its earlier effort on the main route to Lexington and McLean Hospital from Belmont Center, said Clancy. The work along…
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Concord Ave & Pleasant St, Belmont, MA
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Concord Ave & Mill St, Belmont, MA
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Monday, July 18, 2011
Suddenly stricken ill while driving pickup on Trapelo Road leading to single-vehicle accident.
If you had your home inspected or ever built an extension or patio, you probably ran into George Mahnke. He was one of two town employees who ventured out to review and inspect new construction in town. Dubbed by his boss, Office of Community Development Director Glenn Clancy, as "a jack of all trades" in the office, Mahnke – who worked for the town for more than 23 years – died Sunday shortly after being involved in a single- vehicle accident on Trapelo Road westbound just out of Waverley Square on Sunday afternoon. Mahnke was reportedly in his early 60s and currently living in Lincoln. Belmont Police Chief Richard McLaughlin said earlier today that Mahnke suffered either a heart attack or stroke shortly before his 2008 Toyota Tacoma …
Reportedly suffered health issue driving pickup on Trapelo Road Sunday.
Long-time town employee George Wayne Mahnke died Sunday after he suffered reportedly either a heart attack or stroke that caused his pickup to roll over on Trapelo Road yesterday. Hired as the town's first code enforcement officer in December 1987, Mahnke spent more than 23 years first in the town's Engineer's Office and then in the Building Department as an inspection and enforcement officer in the Office of Community Development under Glenn Clancy. Described as a "jack of all trades" in a department of all trades, "[i]t is very tough when you say good-bye to someone on Friday and tell them to have a good weekend," said Clancy, who added that he was "shocked" to hear the news early this morning. A long-time resident of Belmont who …
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