Arlington Conservation Commission Continues Dudley Street Hearing, Awaits Stormwater Peer Review

ARLINGTON — June 25, 2026 — Arlington Conservation Commission continues commercial expansion hearing near Millbrook, citing missing engineering review. The commission voted 7-0 Thursday to continue the Notice of Intent hearing for 26 Dudley Street — DEP File 19375 — to July 9, 2026, after applicant team consultants Rich Kirby and Fred Russell of LEC Environmental presented a revised stormwater plan showing a net reduction of roughly 400 square feet of impervious surface and an 87 percent total suspended solids removal rate using NOAA Atlas 14++ precipitation data. Commission Chair Chuck Turrani said he did not "feel like I have enough information to approve of the project, mainly the stormwater," with the panel citing three unresolved items: an absent peer review from the town engineer, unconfirmed submission of responses to DEP, and a discrepancy between the O&M plan's sweeping language and the TSS calculation's vacuum-sweeping assumption. The applicant also proposed a 3,200-square-foot off-site mitigation area along Millbrook on town recreation land, planting native species at a two-to-one ratio — a plan commission members praised but flagged as requiring separate recreation department authorization and a possible shift from saplings to seedlings based on past failures at the sloped site.