The Town of Southborough Conservation Commission voted to continue three public hearings to the next scheduled meeting on May 1 to allow additional review, ensure quorum, and give applicants time to respond to consultant comments.

The commission continued a stormwater management permit hearing for 48 Main Street (Map 53, Lot 11) for the applicant Faye School because a commissioner (Jenna Barbary Kolovsky) had recused herself and a quorum for that hearing was not present. The commission opened the item as a continued hearing and then voted to continue to May 1.

A notice of intent and stormwater management permit for 26 Meadow Lane (Map 56, Lot 14), a flexible development proposed by William Putri for three single‑family units and one duplex, was also continued. The commission received consultant comments from Lucas Environmental and from Fuss & O’Neill; the applicants and their engineer requested time to respond and to prepare additional materials including an operation and maintenance (O&M) plan and responses to administrative items raised in peer review. The applicants indicated remaining items appear to be administrative (mapping units and stamping, form dates) and that some technical comments (replication ratios and replication detail elevations, O&M plan) require plan revisions. The commission agreed to continue to May 1.

The commission also continued the hearing for 120 Turnpike Road, a proposed 60‑unit apartment building submitted by FD 120 Turnpike LLC. Applicant representative Mitch Masenik of Goddard Consulting said the team had submitted a revised landscape plan, a revised Operation & Maintenance plan, and an updated DEP WPA Form 3; consultant Lucas Environmental had reviewed the materials and identified minor follow‑up items such as adding elevations to a replication cross section and specifying that imported compost loam be used rather than re‑using invasive‑seed‑bearing soils. The commission said it would accept conditions allowing final plant substitutions subject to staff (agent) approval and agreed to continue to May 1 so absent members and stewardship reviewers can weigh in on a large project with town property conveyance aspects.

Commissioners emphasized the value of giving absent commissioners time to review larger, more complex matters and asked applicants to submit revised plans and responses to peer comments in advance of the May 1 meeting.