KAREN PACKARD, REALTOR, CONTINUES TO APPEAR BEFORE THE STERLING PLANNING BOARD PRO-DEVELOPMENT HACKS TO DISCUSS THE EXISTING ROUTE 140 “PERFORMANCE ZONE 1.” BEWARE OF ANOTHER MOVE TO RE-ZONE THAT AREA TO “COMMERCIAL”

Karen Packard, Realtor, with new offices on Route 140 in Sterling’s existing “Performance Zone 1”–her husband operates “Sterling Greenery” across the road–appeared before the Sterling Planning Board pro-development hacks–two of its members, Corrinne and Pruneau, are developers!– in December 2021 to discuss that “Performance Zone.” She will appear before them on 27 January 2022 to discuss that “Performance Zone” again–
https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/pb_agenda_-_january_27_2022.pdf

The Planning Board has not yet posted on the Town’s website its December 2021 Meeting Minutes. Those Minutes will be approved for posting during the 27 January Meeting, presumably.

You can bet that this constitutes yet another effort to re-zone that area from “Performance Zone 1,” in red– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/file/file/part15.pdf –to “Commercial.” The Planning Board tried to do that last year by means of 2021 Annual Town Meeting Warrant Article 39, also recommended by the Select Board dopes– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/uploads/2021_atm_final_warrant_june_7_2021_003_0.pdf — but the voters, wisely, shot it down. Re-zoning that area to “Commercial” would be harmful to the homeowners along Route 140 nearby.

REMEMBER, last year Joe Curtin, “The Brilliant,” Vice-Chair of the Sterling Zoning Board of Appeals a/k/a The Developers’ Doormat, prevailed upon the the pro-development hacks on the Planning Board to sponsor 2021 Annual Town Meeting Warrant Article 46– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/uploads/2021_atm_final_warrant_june_7_2021_003_0.pdf — reducing in size the Wekepeke Aquifer Wellhead Protection Zone, in order to promote Light Industrial development over the Wekepeke Aquifer. The Select Board dopes recommended passage. It passed. NOW the Sterling D.P.W. plans to sink a much-needed Town Well off Crowley Road in the Wekepeke Aquifer. Yeah, so how’d that move work out for Sterling’s Townspeople???

Watch these self-interested clowns closely.

J.G.