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From Bob on 25-Sept:

All, 

     The hearing on The Red Spring Rd Homeowners Assoc is next Monday Oct 2nd. There are two hearings that night at City Hall.

 1.) The first is the Planning Board at 7 p.m.. The Planning Board will make a recommendation to the council, whether to approve or not, our request. 

  2)  There will be a vote of the City Council to send the overlay district to the Urban Affairs Committee. .It is imperative that we show up with lots of people that night. They don't have to be residents of Red Spring Rd. They just need to voice their support for the overlay district.

    What is an overlay district and why do we need one for Red Spring Rd?   We have a unique situation down here in that we formed a Condo Assoc. Therefore we are considered by the City Council to be one…

We shared the following letter with the Fort Meadow Association on 25-Sept (source found here).

To Our Neighbors around Fort Meadow,

After many decades the Morse Family decided to end their leases and sell the property along Red Spring Rd. We were fortunate to organize our neighbors and buy the property. It could have been bought by condo developers or home builders as there was interest from them. That would have changed the character of this side of the lake forever. Many of us had parents who owned cottages here and we get to carry on that tradition to our families. We are truly fortunate.

We write today in the interest of transparency and to ask for your help as we want to preserve the rural nature of this side of Fort Meadow and protect the watershed. We thought it important to share with you where we have been and…

Mike Dwyer presents Operations Manager Neal Vigeant with official Red Spring Rd Homeowners Assoc Highway Dept sweatshirt. President Bob Durand has a good laugh.

Here are some helpful links shared after the 18-May 2022 presentation from Priscilla Ryder, Marlborough Conservation/Sustainability Officer:

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• Tree Removal near wetlands Policy

• 30' wetland buffer zone - set back policy

• Buffer zone benefits flyer

• Invasive Plants

Red Spring Shores sign going in! Thanks to Mark Evangelous at Gemini sign and Red Spring Shores residents Dan Durand, Steve Brule, Mike White ,Alex Ferrecchia and Mark Desassa.

Paul Goldman gave a presentation on native pollinators at the 18-May 2022 assembly meeting.

Here are a few key take-a-ways:

1. Purchase plants by their Latin names, otherwise you might be getting a cultivar. They often have additional words at the end, ex. Echinacea Daydream, would be a cultivar because of the word "Daydream".

2. Avoid plants treated with pesticides or herbicides, like neonicotinoides

3. Try to plant at least a 3 ft. x 3 ft. area of each plant, or leave space for the plant to spread that much

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