Wayland panel considers compromise offer on plan for former Raytheon site

Boston Globe 1/31/10: Wayland panel considers compromise offer on plan for former Raytheon site. Wayland’s Historic District Commission is considering a settlement proposal from the developer of the proposed Town Center project that would move it forward nearly four years after it was first approved by Town Meeting.

But whether the board will accept the offer, which would end a lawsuit filed by the developer, was uncertain last week.

The Historic District Commission and developer Twenty Wayland have been engaged in a legal battle since last year over restrictions the board placed on the project, which involves the construction of a complex of stores, restaurants, housing, government offices, and a town common on the site of a vacant Raytheon Corp. factory on Route 20.

A key disagreement is a requirement that the developer phase in improvements to the intersection of routes 126, 20 and 27. Twenty Wayland wanted to fix the roads as its Town Center development went up, but the commission ordered it to wait until 94,000 square feet of the space is occupied.

Commission chairwoman Gretchen Schuler said the goal is not to stop the project, but to protect the integrity of the historic district in which it is located.

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