Wayland Planning Board postpones officer election after members decline chair role

WAYLAND -- June 25, 2024, Wayland Planning Board postpones officer election after every sitting member declines to chair. Chair Anette Lewis told the June 25 meeting she could not continue, citing workload and her physician's advice; Vice Chair Robin Borgestedt and members Ira Montague and Larry Tiernan also declined to step up. "I'm drowning," Lewis said, blaming a four-year staffing gap that has left the town planner without an administrative assistant. The election was pushed to July 23, and Lewis said she will write Town Manager Michael McCall and the Select Board chair to press the case for added staff. The board separately approved an Approval Not Required plan at 13 Karina Road, 5-0, conditioned on correcting a 1,356-square-foot discrepancy in lot-area calculations, and spent more than an hour drafting massing and materials standards for the town's MBTA Communities multi-family overlay.