Milton Conservation Commission backs CZM bioretention grant in unanimous vote

Conservation Commission · Meeting of March 10, 2026

Milton Conservation Commission votes unanimously to back a Coastal Zone Management bioretention grant and advances three permit cases to a March 28 site visit. Chair John Kiernan and the six-member board voted 6-0 to issue a letter of support for a grant application, submitted jointly by the town and the Neponset River Watershed Association, with no direct cost to Milton, to fund 100 percent engineering on bioretention cells at stormwater hotspots in the Unquity Brook watershed; town Environmental Coordinator Cassandra Calabro had circulated a draft letter that afternoon ahead of a Monday submission deadline. The commission continued a notice of intent for a new home at 1386 Canton Avenue, where engineer Greg Driscoll presented plans for a combined 8,510-square-foot two-structure development for applicant Solomon Chardry, and was asked to provide tree survey data and roof runoff calculations.

A separate notice of intent for a Randolph Avenue lot drew debate over a 22-foot grade drop to Route 28, with commissioners pushing for a defined rain garden over an informal grass swale. At 51 Riverside Avenue, builder Kyle Martyr was asked to provide impervious-surface calculations and told the proposed garage addition may need to move rearward to exit the 100-year AE coastal flood zone, a zone Commissioner Arthur Doyle, citing Cornell University projections presented that day at a UMass Boston coastal relocation workshop, said is expected to expand dramatically by 2070.

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Source: the Conservation Commission meeting of March 10, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.