Collins v. Wayland Board of Selectmen

Salinger, Kenneth W., J.

From July 2009 to July 2010 the Wayland Board of Selectmen went into executive session thirteen times to discuss a lawsuit brought by real estate developer Twenty Wayland, LLC, against the Wayland Historic District Commission (“HDC”). The Board was not a party to that lawsuit, which challenged conditions imposed by the HDC on proposed traffic safety improvements. Plaintiffs are registered voters of Wayland. They ask the Court to declare that the Board violated the Open Meeting Law by holding those discussions in closed sessions, achieving consensus during those…