The Framingham Planning Board convened on September 5, 2025, at 7:03 PM, chaired by Ted Cosgrove, to conduct public hearings and routine business. The board approved minutes, made appointments, endorsed an Approval Not Required (ANR) plan, approved a sign application, and deliberated on two major site plan reviews and special permit applications. The meeting concluded with a discussion of future zoning workshops and updates on city planning projects.
The Framingham Planning Board is comprised of five members. The board reviews the wide range of applications for commercial and residential projects. The mission of the planning board is to ensure the projects increase quality of life, contribute to economic development, and are consistent with Framingham's character. The Framingham Planning Board is also responsible for enforcing and revising the zoning bylaws and developing and implementing the city's master plan. The following planning board meeting coverage is brought to you by the government channel, a service of the city of Framingham. We're gonna get started here. First, let me see if I can get rid of this nasty echo. Okay, that should do it. Let me just do a little introduction here on the evening. Good evening, everyone. My name is Ted Cosgrove, and I'm the chair of the City of Framingham Planning Board. This is an open meeting to the planning board and is being conducted in person and remotely. The hour being 7 o'clock, 703, Mr. McDorn. We'll we'll begin shortly with the matters designated in the agenda. Please note that this meeting is being recorded and that some attendees are participating by remote uh by video conference. Accordingly, please be aware that other participants or viewers may be able to see and hear you, and anything that you broadcast may be captured by the recording. If you do not wish to be seen, please please turn off your video. All the supporting materials for the night have been provided to the members of this body and should be available uh to anyone in the public on the planning board uh meeting portal. And it's uh the link is also included in the agenda for this evening. Uh so what I'm gonna do is um there the first item we're gonna go right down the agenda here tonight. Uh the first item of business is the planning board meetings from August 7th. Did everybody get a chance to review them? And are there any uh concerns or motion? To approve. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Uh and actually, before I go too far along, let me uh introduce our new associate member, Alciana Shaka. Welcome. Pleasure to be here. We're glad to have you here. It's nice to have a fifth person sitting at the table. She has to hit the button on her uh oh so when you'd like to speak, um pushing that turns the light green at the base. That lets you know that it's being broadcast and recorded as well. Thank you. Yeah, good. Uh so the next item uh is appointment of the planning board representative to the community preservation committee. Uh when we left last week, um there was a little bit of uh discussion about that, and I did uh mention, I think after the meeting to some folks that I would be uh interested and willing to be that person. Uh so um motion to I'll nominate myself. All right. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All right. Okay. Uh now moving on to the appointment of the uh planning board representative to the Metro West Regional Collaborative. Uh do we have any I would do that? Joe would be interested in doing that. Anyone else? Somebody already representative or is this new?