Woodfall Road Parcel Resembles a Wallflower
Town still waiting for interested parties to submit application to develop the site.
It was the event of the summer. Approximately 100 Belmont Hill residents descended into Town Hall on a warm August night to protest the town's plan to accept blueprints by an Atlanta-based real estate development firm to construct a single-floor hospice in many of their backyards. Residents slid up to the microphone and told the Belmont Board of Selectmen that building the facilities on five-and-a-quarter acres of town-owned land off Woodfall Road adjacent to Belmont Country Club would be a disaster: ambulances and hearses coming down quiet residential roads filled with children, the impact of a business in the property values in this neighborhood of homes, and the possibility the commercial operation could be sold in the future to a non-…
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John Bowe
5:37 pm on Friday, January 18, 2013
I'd bet it's partly because developers are tired of dealing with Belmont. Everything gets re-visited and dragged out, nothing gets done smoothly. The BOS caved to Biff, Muffy, and Tagg on the hospice, and the developers can't trust that the same kind won't keep happening. more ›