Lexington Conservation Commission Issues Hartwell Avenue Wetlands Determination, Continues Multiple Hearings

LEXINGTON -- October 14, 2025, Lexington Conservation Commission issues split wetlands determination for Hartwell Avenue and advances enforcement actions. Acting Chair Ruth Ladd presided over the October 14 meeting, at which the four-member commission voted unanimously to issue a positive determination under the town's local wetlands bylaw and a negative determination under the state Wetlands Protection Act for 131 Hartwell Avenue, establishing that a constructed stormwater basin on the site is not a state-jurisdictional resource area but that any future project will require a commission filing under local stormwater regulations. The commission also continued four separate notices of intent, including raise-and-rebuild proposals at 101 Blossomcrest Road and 58 Valleyfield Street, to the October 28 meeting, while closing the hearing on a bridge pile-repair project over Kiln Brook at Zero Hartwell Avenue. On enforcement, staff reported unpermitted paving, fill, and invasive-removal activity at 117 Vine Street, and the commission confirmed a December 1 deadline for the owner of 3 Turning Mill Road to either remove an unpermitted driveway or provide stormwater mitigation, with a formal enforcement order to follow.