Freetown Conservation Commission Tables Estelle Road Extension, Clears Four Other Items

FREETOWN — February 12, 2024 — Freetown Conservation Commission clears four properties and tables a disputed five-year extension request. The three-member commission — Chair Charlie Sullivan, Steve Tripp, and Margaret French — voted unanimously on all items at the February 12 meeting, issuing certificates of compliance for 3 Friend Street and 61 Cliff Drive and an order of conditions for 30 Island Road incorporating natural-heritage mussel-sweep requirements. The commission also approved a wetlands restoration plan for 22 South Main Street, requiring planting of 86 trees, shrubs, and ferns by June 30, 2024, to remediate an enforcement-order clearing violation. The one contested matter, a renewal request for 13 Estelle Road's order of conditions — first issued in 2019 and already extended once — was tabled to the first March meeting after Sullivan said he could not confirm a valid building permit remained in place and characterized on-site activity over the past year as not substantial.