2026-09-29 - Zoning Board of Appeals
Summary
Written from a speech-to-text transcript; names and numbers may be misheard. The recording covers only the opening and roll call.
- Chair Christian Klein called the remote meeting to order at 7:30 p.m. on September 29, 2026. Four members were present and one member was unable to attend; the town's zoning assistant and town counsel were also present. The meeting was held remotely under the state law extension of remote-meeting provisions through June 30, 2027, and all votes were by roll call.
- The only agenda item was an executive session to discuss strategy on litigation filed against the board and its members, noticed under the open meeting law's litigation exception. The board voted by roll call to enter executive session, and the meeting was to adjourn without returning to open session.
- No public business was conducted and nothing further is on the record.
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This is an automatic speech-to-text transcript; names and numbers may be misheard.
Transcript
00:157.30 PM on Tuesday, September 29th, 2026. Good evening. My name is Christian Klein. I'm the chair of the Arlington Zoning Board of Appeals. I'm calling this meeting of the board to order and first like to confirm that all members and anticipated officials are present from the zoning board of appeals. We have Patrick Hamlin here, and then can hully here.
00:37And Adam LaBlanc here and Nicholas Rosenberg here. Are you all with us? Mr. DuPont is unable to join us this evening. On behalf of the town, we have Colleen Ralston, our clerk and zoning assistant here, and we have Michael Cunningham town council here.
00:58Just to have everyone here. So, tonight's meeting of the Arlington Zoning Board of Appeals is being conducted remotely consistent with the bill signed by Governor Healey on March 28th, 2025, which extended temporary provisions pertaining to the open meeting a lot of June 30th, 2027.
01:12The extension of these provisions allows public bodies to hold their meetings remotely by providing live adequate alternative means of public access to the deliberations.
01:19This meeting is being recorded and will be broadcast by ACMI. Members of the public core participating via Zoom and who wish to offer public comment should be aware they'll be asked to provide their full name and address.
01:28So, a complete public record of the meeting can be taken in accordance with state law. All participants of this meeting are advised that people may be listening to the meeting without offering public comment.
01:36Those people are not required to identify themselves. Any votes that are taken this evening will be conducted by roll call vote. All supporting materials have been provided to members of this body are available on the town's website, most otherwise noted. Public is encouraged to follow along using the posted agenda and as chair, I reserve the right to take items out of order in the interest of promoting an orderly meeting.
01:55So, this meeting only has 1 agenda item, which is an executive session. So tonight the board will be holding an executive session to discuss strategy with respect to litigation filed against the board and its members to conduct those discussions in an open session would have detrimental effects to the litigation position of the board.
02:16Therefore, executive session is noticed in accordance with the exception to the open meeting law set forth in general law, chapter 30 a section 21 a 3 at the conclusion of the executive session. The meeting will adjourn without reentering open session.
02:31With that, I would take a motion to enter executive staff to move to Mr. Hanlon second. Thank Mr. Rosenberg, the roll call vote of the board. Mr. Hanlon. Yes, Mr. Holly. Yes.
02:51Mr. LaBlanc? Yes. Mr. Rosenberg? Yes. And the chair votes. Yes, we are entering executive session.