Board OKs Center Street Paving, Pauses Storage Case

Conservation · Meeting of September 1, 2026

West Bridgewater Conservation Commission holds Field Street storage-yard permit as owner weighs Brockton move. The board continued the contested stormwater case to September 15 after debating how to manage roughly 96,000 square feet of sand under a National Grid easement, with one member favoring a native seed mix and another pushing to keep it bare sand to block invasives like buckthorn and tree of heaven. A commission member recused himself, citing prior Board of Water Commissioners involvement in a related Zoning Board of Appeals dispute.

The project's unnamed applicant said, "I love West Bridgewater," but is weighing shifting his truck fleet to Brockton over excise tax costs. In the meeting's lone completed vote, the board unanimously approved a minor change letting property owner Kennedy pave roughly $20,000-to-$30,000-fence-avoiding Copeland Street aside, instead expanding parking at 102 East Center Street rather than building a previously permitted structure.

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Source: the Conservation meeting of September 1, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.