Help shape the future of housing in Wellesley.
The Wellesley Housing Task Force and Barrett Planning Group will hold an in-person community meeting on Tuesday, June 18 from 6:30pm-8pm at Wellesley High School, 50 Rice Street.
The public, and especially residents, developers, business owners, and service providers are encouraged to attend. The meeting will include a presentation on the current state of housing in Wellesley and the opportunity for all participants to provide insight on a new Strategic Housing Plan for our community.
Wellesley’s existing Housing Production Plan was approved in 2018 and was intended to guide the Town for five years.
Despite meeting many of the recommendations in the 2018 plan, the housing market in Wellesley has evolved and Massachusetts has passed new regulations, such as the MBTA Communities Law, that impact housing.
As a result, the Town has determined it needs to develop new strategies to create the varied housing needed to support our community.
This meeting is part of a planned community engagement program to gather input and feedback as the Town develops its new Strategic Housing Plan.
Where are they going to put more homes/apartments? This town looks like a city now..awful! How are they going to handle all the traffic as well? Wellesley has lost it’s charm!!
Wellesley hardly looks like a city, you only need to check out Google Earth to see that but it doesn’t look like a rural exurb, either. This makes sense, given it’s 15 miles west of Downtown. A town so close SHOULD provide a robust stock of housing for all walks of life, particularly a vibrant college town. As for traffic, it is a pain, but I recommend you block the numbered roads that pass THROUGH the town, as it’s people avoiding crowded highways who do most of the clogging.