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PEER REVIEW

Peer Review

We have provided review services to municipal boards and commissions in over thirty municipalities throughout Massachusetts, and for hundreds of projects. We have a strong history of providing long-term on-call services for numerous municipalities and pride ourselves on our thorough approach and ability to facilitate boards’ and commissions’ review and understanding of proposed projects. We recognize that the time of volunteers serving on municipal boards and commissions is valuable, that meeting agendas are often overloaded, and that clear and comprehensive expert technical input and advice facilitates successful outcomes.

Our experienced team of engineers, landscape architects, wetland scientists, and surveyors, is our greatest strength in the peer review process – providing our municipal clients with one source of information and direction from review of applications through construction.

Working throughout Massachusetts, in a variety of municipalities, and for a variety of boards, commissions, and other public interest organizations, has provided B+T with an invaluable perspective to inform our review and construction monitoring services. That experience is bolstered by our design experience on development projects, land planning studies undertaken for municipal and private clients as well as the Attorney General’s office, and assistance we have provided to revise/re-write local bylaws and regulations for municipal clients as well as on a pro-bono basis. Consequently, we offer a broad perspective for planning, design, and development review services.

Our staff are also active in multiple technical and industry engineering, planning, and wetland/environmental groups. We have also been involved in various advisory groups through the years, including for MassDEP with regard to stormwater matters. Our staff have also presented about peer reviews to various industry groups.

Typical Review Services

We routinely review proposed commercial, and residential, and infrastructure projects, including the following application types, for compliance with relevant requirements and standard practice:

  • Chapter 40B Comprehensive Permits

  • Preliminary and Definitive Subdivisions

  • Site Plans

  • Special Permits

  • Zoning Variances

  • Open Space/Cluster Developments

  • Notices of Intent

  • Abbreviated Notices of Resource Area Delineation

In addition to typical peer reviews, we also: 

  • Undertake construction administration to assess compliance with design plans and permit conditions

  • Provide acting Conservation Agent services

  • Routinely review and prepare proposed revisions to local wetland, zoning, and subdivision laws and regulations, including with a resiliency focus

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