Select Board hears resident concerns on high school student parking plan

WELLESLEY — August 19, 2025 — Wellesley Select Board hears resident concerns on student parking tied to new educational building. At the Aug. 19 session in the Juliani Room, Chair Marjorie Freiman opened the meeting with Executive Director Meghan Jop and Assistant Executive Director Corey Testa present. Leslie Hanrahan, a 38-year resident of 5 Putney Road in Precinct E, used citizen speak to flag "new student parking behind the new educational building to replace what's being displaced on the current parking lot," and referenced a potential conservation restriction on Massachusetts Bay Community College forest land adjacent to the site. The available transcript captures only the opening of the meeting; no votes or further deliberations are reflected in the record reviewed.