Conservation Commission signals openness to amending Priscoli APR for access road

SUDBURY -- January 26, 2026, Sudbury Conservation Commission signals openness to amending Priscoli APR in exchange for plantings and barn waiver. On a 5-0 vote Jan. 26, the commission told applicant John Priscoli and Doug Dillon of Goddard Consulting it would entertain a tracked-changes amendment to the Agricultural Preservation Restriction covering 94 and 100 Prides Crossing (DEP file 301-728) to allow an agricultural access road to remain, conditioned on additional tree plantings and dropping a previously contemplated barn. Conservation Coordinator Lori Capone warned that removal of an unpermitted post-2000s driveway "is not mitigation or compensation" but a violation correction. Member Mark Sevier pushed Dillon on substance: "For you to ask for relief, what do you have to offer?" The commission also issued a negative determination for tree removal at 30 Birchwood Avenue and continued 89 Stone Road to Feb. 9 amid a perennial-stream classification dispute. In her annual report, Capone reported 100 hearings, 24 orders of conditions, and a $40,000 Sudbury Foundation grant for a Bruce Freeman Rail Trail pollinator garden.