Scituate Morning Brief, Oct. 23: Town Meeting backs $3.8M Pier 44 park

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• Town Meeting backs $3.8M Pier 44 park Scituate Town Meeting took up a long-debated plan to build a waterfront park at Pier 44, with Select Board member Nico Afonisenko framing it as a choice between a "$2 million broken building and decaying parking lot" or a park open to residents daily.Scituate News
• School Committee weighs trips, testing expansion The Scituate School Committee weighed two student travel requests and opened review of a proposal to expand standardized testing from grades 2-5 through grade 10, with a final vote set for November 2.Scituate News
• Planning Board continues 48-unit hearing to January Scituate's Planning Board took up the proposed 48-unit condo project at 19 Union Street, where town planner Karen Joseph said "there's way too much parking" and an abutter warned future residents "are going to be breathing diesel smoke all night long" from idling trains.Scituate News
• Traffic committee votes to remove Brook Street crosswalk The Scituate Traffic Rules and Regulations Committee voted unanimously to remove a crosswalk at 26 Brook Street that served the former Senior Center and directed the Department of Public Works to remove related signs and markings.Scituate News
• Cushing site committee drafts community-priorities survey The Cushing School Site Land Re-Use Committee began shaping a community survey to gauge priorities for the 6-acre site, as the Food Pantry outlined needing up to 1.5 acres and residents floated a possible community ice rink.Scituate News

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