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The Sterling Select Board’s 23 June 2021 Agenda (amended twice) includes this item: “Discuss the establishment of a Land Use & Permitting Department”– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2021_6_23_agenda3.pdf Just what Sterling, a Town of 7800 people, needs!–another layer of bureaucrat payroll patriots inside the Municipal Building, at taxpayer expense, pretending to perform useful tasks while really scrounging make-work andContinue reading “ANOTHER LAYER OF EXPENSIVE BUREAUCRATIC BULLSH*T ON THE WAY???–SELECT BOARD TO DISCUSS ESTABLISHING “LAND USE & PERMITTING DEPARTMENT””

While the Town suffers from a public water supply shortage its Zoning Board of Appeals is busy promoting increased population density across Sterling by means of Town Meeting Warrant Article 38, “ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT USE,” that would replace the existing Sterling Protective (Zoning) By-Law provisions for “Accessory Apartment Use[s],” including the requirement that such anContinue reading “TOWN MEETING WARRANT ARTICLE 38–THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS SPONSORS INCREASED POPULATION DENSITY ACROSS STERLING DESPITE THE TOWN’S PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY SHORTAGE”

The Board of Health has scheduled an “Executive Session” for Thursday, May 20, 2021– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/05-20-2021_posted_agenda_form_sterling_board_of_health_excutive_session.pdf Rumors swirl. One rumor has it that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of the Inspector General sent the Board of Health a letter about BOH Inspector David “Nowhere Man” Favreau’s Completely Non-Itemized Time Sheets (see previous post, this Blog) andContinue reading “STERLING BOARD OF HEALTH SCHEDULES “EXECUTIVE SESSION” FOR MAY 20, RUMORS SWIRL”

TOWN OFFICIALS KNOW THAT STERLING HAS WATER SUPPLY SHORTCOMINGS Toward the bottom of almost every Sterling Select Board published Agenda are the words “Water Supply” in red. Here is but one example: https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2021_4_14_agenda2.pdf The Select Board members know that Sterling has water supply shortcomings. After all, for many years, Sterling residents have been presented withContinue reading “GIVEN STERLING’S PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY SHORTCOMINGS IT IS TIME TO RENEW THE “RATE OF DEVELOPMENT” ZONING PROVISIONS RATHER THAN EXPUNGE THEM”

STERLING ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS MEMBER JOSEPH CURTIN’S STATEMENT TO THE STERLING PLANNING BOARD On 7 October 2020 Sterling ZBA member Joseph Curtin appeared before the Sterling Planning Board and, according to the Planning Board’s Meeting Minutes, Mr. Curtin “presented a proposed amendment to the Aquifer and Water Resource Protection District bylaw (Article 4, SectionContinue reading “MR. CURTIN’S PROPOSED ZONING MAP AND THE INCREDIBLE, DISAPPEARING, NORTH STERLING AQUIFER PROTECTION ZONE”

THE 2018 AD HOC EARTH REMOVAL BY-LAW STUDY GROUP In 2018 a small group of Sterling Board and Committee members formed an ad hoc group to study and propose changes to the existing Town of Sterling Earth Removal By-Law. After months of meetings they formulated their proposed draft new Earth Removal By-Law. Evidently at leastContinue reading “BEDROCK CRONYISM–THE PROPOSED, REVISED EARTH REMOVAL BY-LAW”

Recently I was provided a couple of BOH Inspector David “Nowhere Man” Favreau’s completely non-itemized time sheets by a source. Favreau, mind you, just happens to run a private business called “David Favreau Septic Services.” SEE https://www.favreausepticservices.com/ No appearance of impropriety or conflict of interest here folks–NOOOOO SIRRREEE–so just move along now. You just knowContinue reading “STERLING BOARD OF HEALTH INSPECTOR DAVID “NOWHERE MAN” FAVREAU’S COMPLETELY NON-ITEMIZED TIME SHEETS”