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The
State primary will take place on Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Polls
will be open from 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.
The
four polling locations are as follows:
Precinct 1- Council on
Aging-60 Nahatan Street
Precinct 2- Sheehan
School-549 Pond Street
Precinct 3-Hanlon
School-790 Gay Street
Precinct 4-Downey
School-250 Downey Street
ABSENTEE VOTING
- The
deadline to apply for an absentee ballot is 5:00 p.m. on Friday, August 31,
2018.
- You
may vote absentee if you will be absent from the Town on Election Day, have a
physical disability that prevents your voting at the polling place, and /or
cannot vote at the polls due to religious beliefs.
- To
download and print an absentee ballot application please click on the link
below
http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/elepdf/2018-Short-Form-Absentee-Ballot-Application.pdf
- In order to have a ballot mailed you must either return the above application
signed, to the Town Clerk’s office via email at townclerk@townhall.westwood.ma.us, mail, or in person.
- You may also send in any signed statement requesting an absentee ballot.
All
absentee ballots must be received by 8:00 p.m. on September 4, 2018.
WHO CAN VOTE IN THE PRIMARY?
Please contact the Town
Clerk’s office if you have any questions at 781-326-3964 or townclerk@towhall.westwood.ma.us
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 Stay Tuned!
The Housing Partnership, a group appointed by the Board of
Selectmen, is embarking on the creation of a Housing Production Plan for the
Town this fall. A Housing Production
Plan (HPP) is a specific document regulated in the Commonwealth’s affordable
housing law, commonly known as Chapter 40B.
A HPP is a strategy developed by a community to meet its affordable
housing requirements. A proactive HPP also considers the particular needs of
its residents respective to all kinds of housing, and identifies specific
challenges and solutions to housing development in that community. A community
can use its HPP to inform and improve proposed development and planning.
The Housing Partnership, supported by the Town’s Housing
& Zoning Division, will seek to create a plan that incorporates as much
public input as possible, in addition to the latest available data and
research. Community visioning workshops will be held in late fall 2018, and
input will be solicited both online, in person, and through the mail. Dates
will be announced on the town website, in the Westwood Wire, and published in
the Westwood Press.
We hope you will join the conversation and share your
thoughts, needs, and ideas for housing in Westwood!
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Westwood Day is only 5 short weeks away and the Recreation
Department is in full planning mode! As always we love volunteers, vendors and
sponsors from the community! Please email recreation@townhall.westwood.ma.us
if you would like to participate in any way.
For more information, click the image below.
Westwood Ahead of the Curve
on ADUs
A study
published by the Pioneer Institute and the Massachusetts Smart Growth Coalition
lists Westwood among a small group of municipalities in the Greater Boston area
with zoning bylaws that adopt best practices in permitting Accessory Dwelling
Units.
Known as accessory apartments, in-law apartments or even
granny flats, ADUs are small dwellings located within or behind a single family
home. Although ADUs are widely considered by housing experts, sustainable
development advocates and community planning organizations to be a beneficial
mode of residential development to both municipalities and homeowners, nearly
2/3 of the 100 cities and towns in the Metropolitan Area Planning Council
(MAPC) region outside Boston restrict development of ADUs.
If you are interested in learning more about accessory
apartments, or wish to obtain a permit to add one to your home, please contact
Sarah Bouchard, Housing & Zoning Agent, at sbouchard@townhall.westwood.ma.us
or 781-251-2598.
Continue Reading....
 The Westwood Health Department has installed sunscreen dispensers at the School Street Playground, Morrison Field and the Tot Lot. We were able to secure the dispensers free of charge as a pilot program from SunStations, USA. If the project is successful we will be expanding to other parks and fields in Westwood. Please supervise children in sunscreen use, so there will be enough available for all.
Questions?
Contact the Westwood Health Department
mrc@townhall.westwood.ma.us or
call 781-320-1027
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Save the Date!
The Annual Flu Clinic will be held on Saturday,
October 20, 2018 from 9:00 AM-12:00 PM at the Westwood High School
gymnasium. For more information
email the Westwood Health Department at mrc@townhall.westwood.ma.us or call 781-302-1026/1027.
The Westwood Board of Health has banned the sale of flavored tobacco products in retail stores as of September 1, 2018. At a Public Hearing in June of 2018 the Board revised its Tobacco Regulation entitled, “Regulation Restricting the Sale of Tobacco Products”. For more information visit the Board of Health webpage at www.townhall.wetswood.ma.us or email the Westwood Health Department at mrc@townhall.westwood.ma.us.
Westwood is excited to announce that starting in the month of September, we will be rolling out the start of our new textile recycling program! This program will be implemented town wide, with every resident receiving a recycling bag for textiles. Textiles include books, clothing, and pillows. Items that pass a quality inspection will be reused or re-purposed.
We are planning a redesign of the town’s website (www.townhall.westwood.ma.us).
We are looking for volunteers to help with an overall evaluation of the current
site and the identification of improvements/changes. Some of the effort
will be done independently, but there may be a few planned meetings which can
be scheduled to accommodate volunteer availability. If you are interested and
would like to help, please call (781-320-1074) or email Donna McClellan, dmcclellan@townhall.westwood.ma.us.
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