04-16-2025 Minutes

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TOWN OF CANTON 
PLANNING BOARD 
April 16, 2025 
MINUTES 
Present: David McCarthy, Chair 
Jim Quigley, Vice Chair 
Patricia McDermott, Clerk 
Sean Robinson, Member 
Also Present: Karen Lawlor, Administrative Assistant. 
Chair McCarthy called to order the Planning Board Meeting of April 16, 2025 at 
6:30 P.M. 
A motion was made by Chair McCarthy and seconded Mr. Quigley to open the public meeting 
of April 16, 2025. All in Favor, Motion Approved 4-0. 
Chair McCarthy welcomed everyone to the Planning Board meeting of April 16, 2025. We are 
meeting in the Salah Room at Memorial Hall and Canton Cable is broadcasting. 
A motion was made by Chair McCarthy and seconded Mr. Quigley to open Item #1, 399-403 
Neponset Street. All in Favor, Motion Approved 4-0. 
Next Item on the Agenda (2) 399 & 40:2 Neponset Street & o Jackson Street. 
Attorney Suzanne Matthews, along with Essek Petrie, Senior Manager of Land Planning & 
Entitlement, Pulte Homes, and Matthew Leidner, Engineer, introduced themselves and 
explained that all changes to the Plans have been well received. There had been concerns 
about which regulations and scopes apply to different overlay districts and which performance 
standards to follow. The plans have been reviewed with Alfons Koka, who had no comments. 
The Applicant is going before Conservation on Wednesday so there are no comments on 
stormwater yet. The landscape and architectural plans will be distributed on Monday, and 
they will also update the traffic study, which will have no major changes, since there are only 
brief periods of traffic. The landscape plans will show shade trees, evergreens, and canopy 
trees. They will work with Conservation on trees so they will be native and non -evasive, and in 
accordance with acceptable trees under the Land Subdivision Rules and Regulations. They 
have presented plans showing the current use and the proposed use, along with the removal of 
the Neponset Street access. The wall in the rear of the property will be landscaped, and the 
common areas have a seating area built into the landscaping. They have found that these 
seating areas are very well used in their other projects. They will be using Van Buren Street to 
avoid the traffic on Neponset Street. 
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