FIGHT LGBTQ GROOMER PERVERTS IN THE WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT! MASSRESISTANCE’S OPEN LETTER TO AMERICAN PARENTS

MassResistance was founded by brilliant, courageous Brian Camenker right here in the Commie Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Read on:

MassResistance warns parents that fear and complacency are enabling LGBT “indoctrination” in schools—and urges bold, confrontational activism to reclaim education.

By Arthur Schaper

May 26, 2025

For the last ten years, I have worked for MassResistance, an international organization that has been fighting the LGBT agenda targeting children and undermining parents in all of its perverse forms. We have had numerous successes, and lately we have generated considerable attention on overturning Obergefell v. Hodges and restoring natural marriage in the United States.

For the last year and a half, though, few parents have reached out to us, and fewer have been willing to take a stand to stop this agenda. Parents across the country want to focus on elections instead of pro-family activism.

Based on our extensive work with MassResistance, I have found that such a strategy is doomed to fail. Elected officials too often move to the center, hide their intentions, or just give up on their campaign promises. Why? The superintendent, school administration, staff, and labor unions push back on any reforms. They don’t want controversy or conflict to conflict with their narrow interests: higher salaries, enriched pensions and benefits, and an easier consolidation of power and prestige. Worse yet, many school districts are stuffed with professional and classified staff committed to every woke LGBT agenda item, thoroughly indoctrinated in the university system to get their professional credentials and master’s degrees.

School board members, even the bravest of them all, will face an uphill battle trying to change this culture of corruption in their local schools. Citizen activism—MassResistance—is more essential than ever to taking back our schools and making education great again. The surest way to stop the spread of LGBT indoctrination and abuse in the schools is to force school districts to get back to basics and get back to educating our youth to be great thinkers, leaders, and creators for the future.

One way this can be done is by reporting to the federal authorities any pro-transgender and pro-DEI policies in your local school systems and state education departments. The hope is that the federal monies would be withdrawn from that school district or the entire state.

We must expose teachers and staff who push LGBT indoctrination in the schools.

Pornographic books in a school’s curriculum or library may also fall under President Trump’s Executive Order against the promotion of “gender” issues in schools. Likewise, these materials can be reported in the hope that federal funds will be withdrawn.

School GSA (Gay Straight Alliance) clubs should be shut down. The issue is not free speech. Since the clubs focus on sex and gender, they violate Trump’s orders to clean this material out of schools. Besides, these clubs are disruptive to the learning environment.

MassResistance is committed to organizing parents in any locale to hold standouts exposing these violations. We can get local news to cover them and push your info to social media.

But we have to wonder: what has happened to the parents now?

Parents who have reached out to MassResistance for help start getting cold feet as soon as we outline the steps needed to take on the LGBT left in their local schools.

The excuses we have heard from parents are staggering:

  1. “I know some of the teachers on campus, and I don’t want to offend them.”
  2. “We own a business in the community, and we don’t want people to start boycotting us.”
  3. “MassResistance is too confrontational. We want a kinder approach to getting our way.”
  4. “I am worried about retaliation against my kid in the classroom. What’s going to happen to them if I speak up?”

All of the concerns and excuses from parents can be summed up with one word: fear.

Parents, are you going to let fear of the educational establishment and the local press dictate whether you step up to protect your children? How can this be, after all the work so many of you have done already to start cleaning up and exposing the moral rot in your children’s schools?

The other problem we have been running into is that they think they can approach school administrators, teachers, and other staff from a position of compromise. Parents don’t realize that school officials, especially the elected school board members, are either cowardly or complicit when it comes to the kind of garbage they subject students to in the classroom.

Too many parents still believe that school operators are on their side when in reality, they are running operations for their own benefit (see my comments above) and with no regard for the students. Why else would they strive to keep secrets from them?

And if you think that is not the case, think again.

Four years ago, MassResistance published an extensive exposé about the Ludlow School District in Massachusetts. The school librarian, herself one of the wacky non-binary/lesbian transgenders that Libs of TikTok loves to mock, was grooming and transitioning children to take on false names and pretend to be the opposite sex. The librarian even arranged for the students to form a suicide pact with other students! This egregious conduct would have gone unnoticed and unchallenged, except for the bravery of one of the teachers, Bonnie Manchester, who sounded the alarm on these abuses and demanded that the school district put a stop to all of it.

In spite of all the obstacles in our way, and because of our outreach to the community, working with parents and friends of the teacher, we were able to force out the superintendent and the librarian! Massachusetts is one of the most tyrannical, pro-LGBT states in the country, and yet we could succeed there. What makes you think that we cannot help you in your community?

MassResistance is here to help every parent we can. We want to win against the LGBT onslaught abusing children in the public schools. But we cannot do it without your help. Even with President Trump back in the Oval Office, the fight is far from over. Children across the country are still being harmed by LGBT indoctrination, and it won’t go away without a sustained MassResistance!

J.G.

2025 HOLDEN TOWN MEETING VOTERS, DISPLAYING INTELLIGENCE AND RESOLVE, VOTE DOWN BOGUS MBTA ZONING

At the Town of Holden’s 2025 Annual Town Meeting, Holden voters, unlike Sterling’s Select Board, Planning Board, and Town Planner, absolute dopes all, displayed intelligence and resolve. They voted down bogus MBTA zoning.

See https://www.holdenma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif4526/f/uploads/mbta_pb_report_and_recom_art_37_0.pdf

See the 22 May 2025 The Landmark– https://www.thelandmark.com/

It will be up to us Sterling voters to do likewise at a future Town Meeting.

J.G

ON 12 MAY 2025 PAXTON VOTERS SHOT DOWN THE JOINT WRSD-TOWN BUDGET PROPOSITION 2 ½ OVERRIDE, MEANING THAT, ENCOURAGED BY THE STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE’S WRSD BUDGET BLOAT BOOSTERS, STERLING’S STUPID, SELF-FLAGELLATING TOWN MEETING VOTERS BLEW OUR CHANCE TO KNOCK DOWN THE WRSD FY 2026 $129 MILLION BUDGET EXTRAVAGANZA

Welp, almost every year, except 2012 and last year, I’ve been astounded by the majority of stupid, self-flagellating Sterling Town Meeting voters who turn out to screw themselves via ever higher property tax rates to approve the bloated, incompetent, failing, LGBTQ-brainwashing WRSD’s skyrocketing budgets despite total student enrollment and student performance numbers falling like a rock. Of course, this is Massachusetts so nothing should surprise me when it comes to Libtard voting patterns.

     Under the WRSD Agreement, if 2 of the 5 member towns, at their Annual Town Meetings, vote down the WRSD’s proposed next fiscal year budget, the WRSD Committee (vapid, incompetent poseurs) and the Superintendent (dishonest, misleading, and manipulative) are forced to fashion a smaller budget proposal for re-vote.

      This year Sterling and Paxton voters had a chance to shoot down the WRSD’s bloated $129 Million budget, up $7 Million since last year’s despite WRSD total student enrollment dropping by 119 in the same period, since Paxton had a joint WRSD-Paxton Town Budget Proposition 2 ½ Override on its 12 May 2025 town election ballot. That Proposition 2 ½ Override FAILED—

Click to access official_results_ate_5.12.2025.pdf

MEANWHILE, HOWEVER, at Sterling’s 5 May 2025 Annual Town Metting, Sterling’s Finance Committee WRSD Boosters, by a vote of 5-1, “recommend[ed]” passage of the WRSD’s FY 2026 bloated budget request. Sterling’s compliant. stupid, self-flagellating Town Meeting voters, ever-ready to screw themselves via higher property taxes, then voted likewise.

CONGRATULATIONS! upon screwing yourselves, and the rest of us who happen to possess intelligence and common sense.

J.G.

J.G.

ON MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025, VOTE ‘NO’ ON THE STERLING BALLOT QUESTION 2 PROPOSITION 2 ½ PROPERTY TAX OVERRIDE AND STOP THE STERLING D.P.W.’S $33 MILLION ‘GARAGE MAHAL’ BOONDOGGLE IN ITS TRACKS

Folks, the out-of-control SPENDING JACKASSES running the Sterling D.P.W. want us Sterling property taxpayers to cough up $33 million for their proposed new luxury facility, the ‘Garage Mahal,’ and drive up our property tax rate by 11% for years to come on a borrowing-bond issue.

SEE  https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/minutes/11-13-2024_dpw_facility_committee_minutes.pdf

According to an article in the latest Sterling Meetinghouse News, “The new DPW building will not be a simple ‘town barn.’ It will feature a full-service diesel and gasoline fuel island, a heavy truck repair shop, a vehicle wash bay, and climate-controlled storage for DPW emergency response vehicles. The facility will also include offices, a training room, and other amenities for employees—facilities the current building lacks (emphasis added).”

YA,YA! FOR $33 MILLION OF YOUR PROPERTY TAX DOLLARS THE STERLING D.P.W. WANTS LUXURY LIVING FOR ITS TRUCKS.

DURING THE 5 MAY 2025 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING THE D.P.W. REPRESENTATIVES ADMITTED THAT THEY NEVER VISITED the Commonwealth of Massachusetts D.P.W. facility on Chocksett Road, ANY of the other properties with STEEL BUILDINGS ALL ALONG Chocksett Road and Pratts Junction Road, Sterling Storage Solutions, or James Monroe Wire & Cable, just over the Town line in Lancaster, to determine what type of FAR CHEAPER steel building(s) the D.P.W. could have designed and then buy instead of their proposed $33 Million ‘Garage Mahal.’ The Sterling D.P.W., OBVIOUSLY, HAS NO CONCERN FOR STERLING PROPERTY TAXPAYERS AND HAS NO INTEREST IN FRUGALITY OR COST EFFECTIVENESS. Steel buildings are too practical, too utilitarian, and too prosaic for the Sterling D.P.W.! I mean, why contact steel building suppliers such as those listed below when you can hose Sterling property taxpayers for $33 Million to put up a luxurious ‘Garage Mahal?’

https://www.steelmasterusa.com/industries/government/

https://www.americanmetalbuildings.com/metal-buildings/commercial-metal-buildings/

https://construxinc.com/

https://www.qualitysteelbuildings.com/industrial-buildings/

https://packagesteelsystem.com/building-solutions

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AND HOW ABOUT THIS??? THE STERLING D.P.W. COULD PROTECT ITS VEHICLES FROM THE WEATHER AND SAVE US TAXPAYERS EVEN MORE MONEY BY DESIGNING AND PURCHASING SIMPLE STEEL ‘TRUCKPORTS’:

SEE  https://www.steelbuildingsandstructures.com/products/category/metal-carports/

According to that same Sterling Meetinghouse News article, Sterling D.P.W. ASSCLOWNS “issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to select a designer for the new facility… The selected designer will…evaluate potential sites within Sterling and review the feasibility study, current fleet, and space needs… At the Annual Town Meeting on May 5, 2025 the [Sterling D.P.W.] is requesting $500,000 to advance the project through schematic design and hire an owner’s project manager (OPM).”

That’s right folks, the Sterling D.P.W. wants us to pony up $500,000 in seed money for a total shot in the dark and several layers of unnecessary bullshit.

Here is Proposition 2 ½ Override info from the Town of West Boylston since the Sterling Select Board lacks the honesty and integrity needed to post such info on the Town of Sterling website.

SEE  https://www.westboylston-ma.gov/home/pages/proposition-2-12-override-questions-and-answers

That $500,000 Sterling D.P.W. Proposition 2 ½ Override spending request is set forth as 12 May 2025 Town Election Ballot Question 2.

SEE  https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/news/2025_ate_ballot_sample_1_0.pdf

PLEASE SHOW UP AND VOTE IT DOWN. STOP THE ‘GARAGE MAHAL’ BOONDOGGLE IN ITS TRACKS.

MAKE THE STERLING D.P.W. START OVER BY DEALING WITH COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL/GOVERNMENT STEEL BUILDING SUPPLIERS INSTEAD.

J.G.

THE STERLING D.P.W.’S FALSE ADVERTISING: THE SO-CALLED ‘SWETT HILL ROAD EROSION AND RUNOFF CONTROL’ PROPOSITION 2 ½ OVERRIDE BALLOT QUESTION IS REALLY ABOUT SHOLAN PARK AND THE TOWN BEACH THROUGH WHICH FLOWS A MAPPED INTERMITTENT STREAM

Folks, if you attended the 5 May 2025 Sterling Annual Town Meeting you heard and saw false Sterling D.P.W. advertising and hyperbole about the so-called Swett Hill Road ‘Erosion and Runoff Control Project’ for which it wants $800,000 of your hard-earned money by means of a Proposition 2 ½ Property Tax Override Ballot Question on the 12 May 2025 Town Election Ballot.

SEE  https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/news/2025_ate_ballot_sample_1_0.pdf

Here is Proposition 2 ½ Override info from the Town of West Boylston since the Sterling Select Board lacks the honesty and integrity needed to post such info on the Town of Sterling website.

SEE  https://www.westboylston-ma.gov/home/pages/proposition-2-12-override-questions-and-answers

At the 5 May 2025 Sterling Annual Town Meeting Sterling D.P.W. representatives showed some slide photos. NONE showed any damage to Swett Hill Road. WHAT THEY DID SHOW WAS A STREAM RUNOFF CHANNEL THROUGH SHOLAN PARK AND THE TOWN BEACH INTO EAST WAUSHACUM LAKE/POND.

WELL FOLKS, THAT’S WHAT YOU GET FROM A MAPPED, SEASONAL ‘INTERMITTENT STREAM’ FLOWING THROUGH YOUR PROPERTY DURING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINS AND SNOWMELT.

ZOOM IN ON THAT AREA USING THIS TOPOGRAPHIC MAP AND VIEW THAT INTERMITTENT STREAM YOUSELVES (blue dashed line)—

https://www.topozone.com/massachusetts/worcester-ma/city/sterling-11/

THAT ‘Intermittent Stream’ has been there since the great glacial ice cap recession from New England occurred 13000 to 14000 years ago.

SO SUDDENLY WE HAVE AN ‘EROSION AND RUNOFF CONTROL’ PROBLEM OVER THERE??? THAT’S BULLSHIT AND WE ALL KNOW IT.

East Waushacum Lake/Pond is on the list of Massachusetts Great Ponds—

https://www.mass.gov/doc/massachusetts-great-ponds-list/download

Massachusetts Great Ponds are owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Protecting ‘Great Ponds’ from sediment runoff should be Commonwealth of Massachusetts business, NOT Town of Sterling business to the tune of $800,000.

AS FOR SWETT HILL ROAD, ALL THE STERLING D.P.W. HAS TO DO TO PROTECT IT FROM EXCESSIVE STREAM RUNOFF IS TO INSTALL A LARGER CULVERT UNDER THE ROAD BED AND THEN RAISE THE ROAD BED.

THAT WON’T COST $800,000.

SO, ON 12 MAY 2025 VOTE ‘NO’ ON THAT PROPOSITION 2 ½ OVERRIDE. IT’S BOGUS. YOU CAN BE SURE THAT THE “EAST WAUSHACUM LAKE ASSOCIATION” LOBBIED FOR IT.

J.G.

STOP THE OUT-OF-CONTROL STERLING D.P.W.’S PROPOSITION 2 ½ PROPERTY TAX OVERRIDES—VOTE DOWN 2025 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING WARRANT ARTICLES 25 AND 26 AND NIP THIS CRAP IN THE BUD

Folks, there will be TWO (2) Proposition 2 ½ property tax override votes as part of the Town of Sterling’s 12 May 2025 TOWN ELECTION—

Click to access 2025_ate_ballot_sample_1_0.pdf

—UNLESS STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING VOTERS SHOOT DOWN WARRANT ARTICLES 25 AND 26 FIRST IN ORDER TO PRESERVE SOME OF THEIR HARD-EARNED MONEY FROM STERLING D.P.W. DEPREDATIONS.

Annual Town Meeting Warrant Article 25 requests Proposition 2 ½ property tax override for $500,000 in seed money the D.P.W. wants first towards its absolutely absurd, batshit-crazy proposed new $33 Million building for which it has no architectural drawings and about which the JACKASSES running the D.P.W., apparently, have sought NO designs or estimates for a much cheaper steel building or steel buildings from the MULTIPLE steel building fabricators and suppliers doing business in New England. A Thirty-three million dollar ($33 million)-in-borrowing bond issue FOR THAT F#@%ING BOONDOGGLE would raise Sterling property tax rates 11% FOR YEARS TO COME.

AND WHILE the Chamberlain Road, Newell Hill Road, Redstone Hill Road, Rugg Road, and westerly Beaman Road surfaces, as examples, HAVE GONE TO ABSOLUTE SHIT, do you really want to screw yourselves with a Proposition 2 ½ override for $800,000 in drainage and erosion control work along Swett Hill Road? I didn’t think so.

SEE WARRANT ARTICLES 25 and 26:  https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/news/05_05_2025_atm_warrant.pdf

The Sterling Select Board has never possessed the honesty and integrity (NO surprise there!) required to place Proposition 2 ½ written explanation on the Town of Sterling website. BUT other towns have them. Here is the one from West Boylston—  https://www.westboylston-ma.gov/home/pages/proposition-2-12-override-questions-and-answers

YOU CAN NIP THIS CRAP IN THE BUD AND SAVE YOURSELVES A LOT OF MONEY. VOTE DOWN 2025 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING WARRANT ARTICLES 25 AND 26.

J.G.

STERLING AND PAXTON VOTERS, COMBINED, CAN VOTE TO DEFEAT THE WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT’S OUTRAGEOUS, UNCONSCIONABLE 2025-2026 BUDGET. LET’S DO IT!!! COME OUT AND SUPPORT STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING WARRANT ARTICLE 43

Folks, under the Wachusett Regional School District Agreement if TWO (2) of the 5 member Towns vote down the WRSD’s FY 2025-2026 outrageous, unconscionable, out-of-control BUDGET, THEN the extravagant, incompetent, gutless WRSD Committee will forced to re-submit a SMALLER BUDGET for a re-vote.

WE HAVE A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO DEFEAT THE WRSD FY 2025-2026 BUDGET BECAUSE THE TOWN OF PAXTON HAS DECIDED TO MAKE ITS WRSD BUDGET PORTION SUBJECT TO A PROPOSITION 2 ½ OVERRIDE VOTE. YAY!!!

SEE:  https://www.townofpaxton.net/home/news/fy26-budget-and-override-overview

Since that Paxton announcement was made the Paxton Select Board voted to push back the Paxton Annual Town Meeting to 16 June 2025.

https://www.townofpaxton.net/home/news/annual-town-meeting-june-16th

AS FOR STERLING PROPERTY TAXPAYERS, THE EXTRAVAGANT, INCOMPETENT, GUTLESS WRSD COMMITTEE AND SUPERINTENDENT WANT TO SCREW US WITH A DISCRETIONARY (ABOVE THE STATE-REQUIRED ‘MINIMUM NET CONTRIBUTION’ AMOUNT) ASSESSMENT TOTALLING $3,348,824—UP 15% FROM LAST YEAR!

SEE Page 6– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/news/05_05_2025_atm_warrant.pdf

REMINDER: The Social Security cost of living increase this year is 2.5%.

REFRESHER: WRSD total student enrollment has fallen by 936, from 7493 to 6557, since Fiscal Year 2010-2011, 119 in just the last year, or 12.5% per cent, WHILE the WRSD total budget increased 50%, from $81.3 million in FY 2015-2016 to $121.9 million THIS Fiscal Year 2024-2025.

THE PROPOSED WRSD TOTAL PROPOSED BUDGET FOR FY 2025-2026 IS AN ABSOLUTE INSULT AND OUTRAGE—UP MORE THAN $7 MILLION FROM LAST YEAR, TOPPING $129 MILLION.

MEANWHILE, THE TEACHERS’ UNION AND OTHER COLLECTIVE BARGAINING UNIT ASS-KISSING SUPERINTENDENT AND SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEMBERS, GUTLESS, VAPID, VIRTUE SIGNALLING POSEURS ALL, REFUSE TO CUT ANY OF THE WRSD’S BLOATED PAYROLL TOTALLING 1040, AND, IN FACT, PROPOSE TO HIRE 17 MORE TEACHERS NEXT YEAR!

They lack the integrity and fortitude to implement Reductions in Force (RIFS), corresponding with the 12.5 % student enrollment drop-off, as authorized by Mass.Gen.Laws Ch. 71, Sec. 42—

https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXII/Chapter71/Section42

For them it is easier to screw us property taxpayers than to confront their unionized employees. They are abject cowards bereft of ethical standards.

And while we’ve been paying for all of this USELESS BLOAT–

https://sterlingmassachusettsoverwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/employee_salaries_022425-2.pdf —

the posing, posturing Superintendent and WRSD Committee ADMITTED to the 5-Town Select Board Chairs, Finance Committees, and Town Administrators, on 4 February 2025, THIS, as reported by a source:

“-all 13 WRSD buildings are falling apart, have been for years. Cited “lack of planning and deferred maintenance”
-Student reading levels are THREE YEARS BEHIND (9th graders reading at 6th grade levels).
-Student assessments are far below average across the board in all subjects.”

YA,YA, Folks, we District-wide property taxpayers are supposed to pony up $7 million more for this total, ongoing incompetence and unaccountability.

WELL, if, like me, you’ve had waaaaay more than enough of pissing your hard-earned money down the WRSD rat hole, PLEASE come out to the 2025 Sterling Annual Town Meeting and vote in favor of Warrant Article 43 –

Click to access 05_05_2025_atm_warrant.pdf

–so we can then vote down the WRSD FY 2025-2026 discretionary budget request that is over and above Sterling’s state-required net minimum contribution.

See you there.

J.G.

STOP THE STERLING PLANNING BOARD’S BRAZEN, DISHONEST, MALICIOUS, DANGEROUS POWER GRAB—VOTE DOWN 2025 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING WARRANT ARTICLE 40

Under existing Sterling Zoning By-Laws governing “Site Plan Review” is this sub-section:

 § 301-6.4.8. 

Regulations. The Planning Board may adopt and from time to time amend reasonable regulations for the administration of these site plan guidelines.

THAT SUB-SECTION PROVIDES THAT THE PLANNING BOARD MAY, ON ITS OWN, ADOPT REASONABLE, INTERNAL, HOUSEKEEPING REGULATIONS FOR HANDLING SITE PLAN PAPERWORK, AND FOR IMPLEMENTING SITE PLAN REVIEW PROCEDURES, CONSISTENT WITH EXISTING ZONING BY-LAWS, WITHOUT THE NEED TO AMEND EXISTING STERLING ZONING BY-LAWS AT ANY TOWN MEETING.

USING THAT SUB-SECTION AS A SMOKESCREEN, THE BRAZENLY DISHONEST, MALICIOUS, DECEPTIVE, AND DANGEROUS STERLING PLANNING BOARD, A COLLECTION OF ASSHOLES CHAIRED BY SELF-DEALING DEVELOPER WEASEL CARL CORRINNE, ACTING IN CONCERT WITH ITS USELESSS, MAKE-WORK, TALKING SOCK PUPPET, STEPHEN WALLACE, THE TOWN PLANNER, HAS SHAMELESSLY WARPED AND REVERSED THE MEANING OF THAT SUB-SECTION BY DRAFTING AND PLACING ARTICLE 40 ON THE 2025 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING WARRANT AS A BLATANT POWER GRAB THAT, SIMULTANEOUSLY, WOULD REVOKE SITE PLAN REVIEW REQUIREMENTS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN CURRENT PROTECTIVE (ZONING) BY-LAW PROVISIONS APPROVED BY STERLING VOTERS AT PREVIOUS TOWN MEETINGS, AND TRANSFER THEIR WATERED-DOWN REPLACEMENT GUIDELINES TO ENTIRELY INTERNAL PLANNING BOARD CONTROL WHERE, AS INTERNAL PLANNING BOARD SO-CALLED ‘REGULATIONS,’ THEY CAN BE GUTTED OR IGNORED LATER. HENCE, FOR EXAMPLE, THE ELIMINATION OF THE WORD “CONDITIONS” AND ITS REPLACEMENT BY THE WORD “STANDARDS.”

“Conditions” are required pre-conditions or prerequisites. “Standards” are mere guidelines that can be ignored. That dilution by our corrupt Planning Board is transparently intentional.

The corrupt Planning Board’s REAL AIM is set forth at the end of its own deceptive, deliberately misleading Article 40 “Summary”—

Summary: The Zoning Bylaw’s current Site Plan provision authorizes the Planning Board to adopt Site Plan Regulations, which the Board has not done to this point. Revising the Site Plan section of the  Zoning Bylaw will enable the Planning Board to include design guidelines in its new set of Site Plan Regulations. Further, much of the content of the existing bylaw can be moved into the [Planning Board internal] regulations (emphasis added).

Here is the 2025 Sterling Annual Town Meeting Warrant—

Click to access 05_05_2025_atm_warrant.pdf

Scroll down to read Article 40 in its ENTIRETY. Article 40, as set forth, is very long, technical, and misleading.  Obviously the OUTRIGHT ASSHOLES constituting the Sterling Planning hope you won’t study it, BUT YOU NEED TO STUDY IT CAREFULLY TO GET ITS FULL, MALICIOUS, DANGEROUS IMPORT. The ‘strikethrough’ provisions are ALL current PROTECTIONS approved by Sterling voters at PREVIOUS Annual Town Meetings. The corrupt Planning Board wants to eliminate them so it can ram through pro-development guidelines and development proposals.

THE MOST DISHONEST, MALICIOUS, AND DANGEROUS PROPOSED NEW Sub-Section is THIS:

§ 301-6.4.4. Relationship to Building Permits and Special Permits

….

2.  The Planning Board shall act as the Special Permit Granting Authority (SPGA) for all projects requiring site plan approval as determined by the Building Commissioner acting in his capacity as Zoning Enforcement Officer.

…

THAT’S RIGHT FOLKS—THE CORRUPT STERLING PLANNING BOARD, PLAYING FOOTSIE WITH A BENT BUILDING COMMISSIONER, UNDER THAT LANGUAGE, CAN STEAL ALL SPECIAL PERMIT GRANTING AUTHORITY FROM THE STERLING ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS, THEREBY ENABLING THE PLANNING BOARD TO RAM THROUGH DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, IN THE PROCESS DEGRADING THE TOWN OF STERLING’S SEMI-RURAL CHARACTER.

Under Sterling’s current Protective (Zoning) By-Laws the Sterling Zoning Board of Appeals is the primary Special Permit Granting Authority.

Combined, the malicious, pernicious, misleading, deceptive, dishonest, dangerous provisions set forth in Article 40 are too extensive to brief here, BUT YOU GET THE PICTURE.

AT THE 5 MAY 2025 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING VOTE DOWN WARRANT ARTICLE 40 IN ORDER TO RESTRICT THE CORRUPT PLANNING BOARD’S AUTHORITY AND THEREBY PRESERVE STERLING’S SEMI-RURAL CHARACTER!

J.G.

COME ON OUT TO THE 5 MAY 2025 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING AND VOTE DOWN WARRANT ARTICLE 39, THE PLANNING BOARD’S DELIBERATE, PERNICIOUS, ASS-BACKWARDS POWER GRAB

The Sterling Planning Board, Chaired by self-dealing developer weasel Carl Corrinne, has put Article 39 on the 2025 Sterling Annual Town Meeting Warrant.

ARTICLE 39 IS A NAKED POWER GRAB INTENDED TO REVERSE THE CURRENT PLANNING BOARD SITE PLAN APPROVAL AND ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS SPECIAL PERMIT APPROVAL PROCESS/ORDER BY FORCING THE ZBA TO APPROVE SPECIAL PERMITS BEFORE THE PLANNING BOARD RENDERS A SITE PLAN DECISION/REPORT. THAT CHANGE WOULD ENABLE THE PLANNING BOARD TO THEN GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS AND RENDER TOTALLY BULLSHIT, PRO-DEVELOPER SITE PLAN APPROVALS.

HERE IS THE PROPOSED ARTICLE 39–

ARTICLE 39:  AUTHORIZE JOINT MEETINGS/HEARINGS FOR PROJECTS NEEDING SPECIAL PERMIT AND SITE PLAN REVIEW

To see if the Town will vote to amend its Protective Bylaws, Chapter 301, Article 6 – Administration and Procedures, by amending §301-6.3 – Special Permits to allow for a joint public hearing for those projects requiring both a special permit and site plan review, by adding a new §301-6.3.4 with the text to be inserted underlined below, and renumbering subsequent paragraphs accordingly, or take any other action relative thereto,

§ 301-6.3.4 Special Permits that require Site Plan review.

For development projects that require a Special Permit from the Zoning Board of Appeals and Site Plan approval from the Planning Board, the applicant may apply for both concurrently and request a joint public hearing by both Boards. When a joint public hearing is requested, both boards will coordinate a public hearing date and provide proper public notice per MGL Chapter 40A, Section 11. The procedural order shall be that the Zoning Board of Appeals shall issue its Special Permit decision first, followed by the Planning Board issuing its Site Plan decision (emphasis original and added).

2/3rd vote required for passage.

Motion: Move that the Town vote to amend the Protective Bylaws, Chapter 301, Article 6 – Administration and Procedures as presented in the article.

Submitted by: Planning Board

Recommendations: Select Board recommends approval

Planning Board recommends approval

Summary: This article will update the bylaw to allow for an applicant to file for both a special permit from the ZBA and Site Plan Review from the Planning Board simultaneously and hold a joint hearing.

As you can see the “Summary” is deliberately deceptive because THE FOLLOWING sets forth the CURRENT  procedural order involving Special Permit applications under consideration by the Sterling Zoning Board of Appeals:

§ 301-6.3Special permits.

§ 301-6.3.1. 

Special permit granting authority. Unless specifically designated otherwise, the Board of Appeals shall act as the special permit granting authority.

§ 301-6.3.2. 

Criteria. Special permits shall be granted by the special permit granting authority, unless otherwise specified herein, only upon its written determination that the adverse effects of the proposed use will not outweigh its beneficial impacts to the Town or the neighborhood, in view of the particular characteristics of the site, and of the proposal in relation to that site. In addition to any other specific factors that may be set forth in this bylaw, the determination shall include evaluations of the adverse effects and beneficial impacts of each of the following factors:

1. 

Social, economic, or community needs which are served by the proposal;

2. 

Traffic flow and safety, including parking and loading;

3. 

Adequacy of utilities and other public services;

4. 

Neighborhood character and social structures;

5. 

Impacts on the natural environment; and

6. 

Potential fiscal impact, including impact on Town services, tax base and employment.

§ 301-6.3.3. 

Procedures. Whenever an application for a special permit is filed with a special permit granting authority, the applicant shall also file, within five working days of the filing of the completed application with said authority, copies of the application, accompanying site plan, and other documentation, to the Planning Board, Board of Health, Conservation Commission, Building Inspector, Director of Public Works, Police Chief, and Fire Chief for their consideration, review, and report. The copies necessary to fulfill this requirement shall be furnished by the applicant. An application shall not be deemed complete until all copies of required information and documentation have been filed with the special permit granting authority. Said authority shall notify applicants by registered or certified mail, within 14 days of submittal, of incomplete application status, and the applicant shall have 14 days from the mailing of such notice to complete an application. Failure to complete an application within such time shall result in a return of all materials to the applicant, without prejudice. Reports from other boards and officials shall be submitted to the special permit granting authority by the date of the public hearing, but in any case within 35 days of receipt of the reviewing party of all of the required materials; failure of these reviewing parties to make recommendations after having received copies of all such required materials shall be deemed a lack of opposition thereto. In the event that the public hearing by the special permit granting authority is held prior to the expiration of the thirty-five-day period, said authority shall continue the public hearing to permit the formal submission of reports and recommendations within that thirty-five-day period. The decision/findings of the special permit granting authority shall contain, in writing, an explanation for any departures from the recommendations of any reviewing party (emphasis added).

§ 301-6.3.4. 

Conditions. Special permits may be granted with such reasonable conditions, safeguards, or limitations on time or use, including performance guarantees, as the special permit granting authority may deem necessary to serve the purposes of this bylaw.

§ 301-6.3.5. 

Plans. An applicant for a special permit shall submit a plan in substantial conformance with the requirements of § 301-6.4.4 herein.

SO, under the current ZBA Special Permit process the Planning Board is required to submit ITS report to the ZBA so that the ZBA can make an informed decision in granting or denying a Special Permit application. That process makes sense, is entirely reasonable, and should be retained.

So come out to the 5 May 2025 Sterling Annual Town Meeting and vote down Article 39, a pernicious, ass-backward Planning Board power grab.

IN MY NEXT BLOG POST I WILL DISCUSS THE PLANNING BOARD’S OUTRIGHT PERVERSE, MALICIOUS PROPOSED WARRANT ARTICLE 40.

Stay tuned.

J.G.

COME ON OUT TO THE 5 MAY 2025 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING AND VOTE DOWN WARRANT ARTICLE 36, THE THIRD ATTEMPT IN 5 YEARS TO RE-ZONE ‘PERFORMANCE ZONE 1’ TO COMMERCIAL

It is abundantly clear that the Sterling Planning Board, chaired by self-dealing developer weasel Carl Corrinne; their out-of-town, carpetbagging, utterly useless, make-work talking-sock-puppet ‘Town Planner’ Stephen Wallace; and the crony-zoning Packards, have utter contempt for Sterling Town Meeting voters because, for the third time in 5 years, following TWO (2) previous Sterling Annual Town Meeting REJECTIONS, they are attempting to re-zone ‘Performance Zone 1’ to COMMERCIAL by means of 2025 Annual Town Meeting Warrant Article 36, in conjunction with a proposed new ‘Table of Uses’ set forth in Warrant Article 37.

SEE  https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/news/05_05_2025_atm_warrant.pdf

HISTORY OF PERFORMANCE ZONE 1 AND REASONS THEREFOR:

In 1992 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act was passed. It protects the Boston metro water supply watershed, including the Stillwater River, running through Sterling, its tributaries, associated wetlands, and associated aquifers.

SEE  https://www.mass.gov/info-details/watershed-protection-act

Regulations were promulgated thereunder.

SEE  https://www.mass.gov/regulations/313-CMR-1100-watershed-protection

THEREAFTER, AT AN ANNUAL TOWN MEETING MANY YEARS AGO, STERLING VOTERS, IN THEIR WISDOM, APPROVED THE ‘PERFORMANCE ZONE 1’ ZONING DISTRICT TO PROTECT THE NEARBY STILLWATER RIVER, ITS NEARBY TRIBUTARY STREAMS, AND ITS NEARBY ASSOCIATED WETLANDS AND AQUIFER FROM POLLUTANTS AND EXCESSIVE RUNOFF, INCLUDING HEATED RUNOFF AND POLLUTANTS FROM LARGE ROOFS AND PARKING LOTS.

Performance Zone 1 is located around Route 140, Dana Hill Road, and John Dee Road. Don’t be fooled by the deceptive euphemism ‘Gateway Enterprise District’ set forth in 2025 Annual Town Meeting Warrant Articles 36 and 37. MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT— IF APPROVED AT TOWN MEETING THAT AREA WILL BECOME A COMMERCIAL DISTRICT.

To see those sensitive resources for yourselves go to Sterling GIS mapping and ZOOM in on that area—

https://next.axisgis.com/SterlingMA/

Next, click on “Layers” then “Conservation 2.” Also, click on “State Data” then on “Aquifers,” “DEP Wetlands,” “Drainage Basins,” “Outstanding Resource Waters,” “Public Water Supply Map,” and “Surface Water Supply Watersheds.”

Do the Packards, the Planning Board, and Town Planner Wallace want you to know about all those sensitive areas??? OF COURSE NOT. They don’t give a rat’s ass about protecting sensitive environmental resources.

MOREOVER, check out ALL the abutting homes—

Click to access sterling_gatewayenterprisedistrict_2024_11x17p.pdf

The Planning Board, Wallace, and the Packards don’t give a rat’s ass about the abutting property owners or their families either.

SCROLL DOWN AND READ THE PERMITTED USES TABLE SET FORTH IN ARTICLE 37, INCLUDING “MAJOR COMMERCIAL PROJECT[S]” that would be permitted in the euphemistically named ‘Gateway Enterprise District.’

IF ARTICLE 36 PASSES, MULTIPLE MAJOR COMMERCIAL PROJECTS COULD BE LOCATED IN THAT NEW COMMERCIAL DISTRICT.

By the way, the crony-zoning Packards’ Limited Liability Corporations (LLCs) own ALMOST ALL of the parcels in Performance Zone 1 easterly of Dana Hill Road. No self-dealing there folks, NOOOOO SIRREEE…

To continue protecting the Stillwater River watershed, AND in solidarity with all those abutting homeowners and their families who would be affected adversely by the proposed new COMMERCIAL zone, it behooves the rest of us to teach the Packards, the Planning Board, and Wallace an EMPHATIC LESSON– YET AGAIN–AT THE 5 MAY 2025 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING BY VOTING DOWN WARRANT ARTICLE 36. LET’S DO IT!

Stay Tuned.

J.G.