What you can do

Residents can have a lot of sway in what kinds of developments come to Hadley-and what developers must give in return for impacting our environment and quality of life. You can make a big difference by learning about new development (watch meetings on TV-5!), talking with your neighbors, and contacting your elected and agency officials. Letters are usually the best way to show you care. Here are some of the things you can do:

Write or call the Planning Board.
Letters and email are the best way to reach the board. (There is no phone for the board at Town Hall.) Be sure to raise substantive planning issues. Jim Maksimoski (chair), Bill Dwyer (clerk), John Devine, Lisa Sanderson, Joe Zgrodnik
100 Middle St, Hadley MA 01035
planning@hadleyma.org

Write or call the Select Board.
Ask the board to use their authority as highway commissioners and water commissioners to require studies of the costs of these projects to Town services. Send comments to: David Nixon, Town Administrator.
586-0221
admin@hadleyma.org
100 Middle St, Hadley MA 01035
Joyce Chunglo, John Connor (chair), Gerry Devine, Kate Nugent, Brian West

Attend Town Meetings.
Town Meetings are held in the spring and fall (and when called for special issues) at Hopkins Academy High School. Hadley has an "open" Town Meeting where every registered voter has the right to speak and vote.

Contact the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission.
Urge this regional agency to get involved and be a stronger force for traffic and land use planning. Tim Brennan, Executive Director
(413) 781-6045
tbrennan@pvpc.org
26 Central St, Suite 34
West Springfield, MA 01089

Write letters to MEPA.
The Wal-Mart and Lowe's projects will soon submit environmental impact reports to the Mass. Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) office. Watch for these filings, and be ready to write letters during the 30-day comment period!
Stephen Pritchard, Secretary of Environmental Affairs
100 Cambridge St, Suite 900
Boston, MA 02114
Fax letters to: (617) 626-1181

Wal-Mart: EOEA Project No.13478
c/o MEPA Analyst: Nicholas Zavolas
nicholas.zavolas@state.ma.us

Lowe's: EOEA Project No.13539
c/o MEPA Analyst: Anne.Canaday
anne.canaday@state.ma.us

Write or call MassHighway.
Urge the state to require sidewalks, crosswalks, and traffic calming to protect residents and businesses. MassHighway has to issue a permit to allow access to Route 9.
Albert Stegemann, Dist. 2 Director
Albert.Stegman@state.ma.us
811 North King St
Northampton, MA 01060
(413) 584-1611
Lionel Lucien
Lionel.Lucien@state.ma.us
10 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116

Write the Department of Environmental Protection.
Urge this agency to protect wetlands and limit runoff from these projects.
Robert McCollum, Wetlands Chief
(413) 755-2217
robert.mccollum@state.ma.us
DEP Western Regional Office
436 Dwight St
Springfield, MA 01103

Write or call your legislators.
Senator Stan Rosenberg
(617) 722-1532
Stan.Rosenberg@state.ma.us
1 Prince St, Northampton, MA 01060

Representative John Scibak
(413) 539-6566
John.Scibak@state.ma.us
P.O. Box 136, S. Hadley, MA 01075