Hanson Conservation Commission Continues Union Park Street Driveway Hearing Pending DEP Review

HANSON — March 4, 2026 — Hanson Conservation Commission continues driveway permit for vacant Union Park Street lot, cites missing DEP number. The three-member quorum voted unanimously Wednesday to push the Notice of Intent filed by Edward Johnson to March 18, after the commission confirmed it had not yet received a state Department of Environmental Protection file number required before final approval. Engineer Joe Webby of Webby Engineering presented a plan to install a driveway, utilities, and private water service at Zero Union Park Street, with all work proposed outside the 50-foot inner buffer of a delineated intermittent stream. The commission also discussed a road-widening component that would expand the adjacent gravel lane from roughly nine feet to 16 to 18 feet, a change the town Department of Public Works had already endorsed. Separately, the commission unanimously approved an order of conditions and closed the hearing for a project at 166 Pine Grove Avenue, which the DEP reviewed without comment. In enforcement news, commission members reported documenting 24 cut trees at an Industrial Boulevard site — the largest measured at 30 inches in diameter — with the responsible parties due before the commission the following Tuesday at 4 p.m.