Holliston February 2024

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Select Board supports name change for portion of Lowland Street
Residential section near Woodland Street
to be changed to “Fawn Road”
By Theresa Knapp
In December, the Holliston
Select Board unanimously approved
a resident request to
change the name of a portion
of Lowland Street that is mostly
residential.
Town Administrator Travis
Ahern said the official request
for the name change was
received in Town Hall in July
2023. He shared a graphic that
highlighted the portion in question.
“The section highlighted
in red technically has two addresses
on Lowland Street that
would theoretically be impacted
should the board choose to
make a change, and those are
between the intersection of
Woodland Street and Lowland
Street, and the intersection of
Lowland Street and the Upper
Charles Rail Trail.”
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Ahern said the name change
would essentially differentiate
the residential section of Lowland
Street from the industrial
section.
Sara Baroud, who lives on
the section in question and initiated
the change, said she and
her neighbor are “100 percent
in favor of this name change”
which they have been considering
for quite some time.
Baroud said, “We are pursuing
this name change to differentiate
the characteristics of the
residential neighborhood from
the industrial park. Those include
things like different usage
of the two zones and the roads,
pedestrian/bicycle use, trail use
versus the industrial use.”
She said the petitioners had
been thoughtful about the proposed
new name – Fawn Road –
“paying tribute to the many deer
that we see crossing our street
and crossing the trail.”
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The Holliston Select Board voted unanimously to support a resident
request to change the name of a section of Lowland Street, from
Woodland Street to the Upper Rail Trail, to “Fawn Road.” Image source:
www.townofholliston.us
Select Board member Ben
Sparrell said, “I don’t have a
problem with changing the
name of the street, I hope it
has some kind of impact here
- that somebody who’s driving
down and sees ‘Fawn Road’
(or whatever the name change
becomes) has a second thought
about going down in that particular
direction, but I do have
the concern that people will still
go down there because of the
GPS.”
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Select Board member Tina
Hein said, “What I see are residents
who are looking to create
a sense of place; they’re trying
to create a sense of community
for their neighborhood…
.I would really encourage the
community at large to see this as
what I think we really embrace
here in Holliston which is building
community through creating
a sense of space; and if a group
of residents feel that a name
change accomplishes that for
their neighborhood, we should
embrace that.”
Select Board Chair John
Cronin also supported the name
change.
The board’s approval of the
name change started a mandatory
30-day appeal period during
which time any resident of
the town could appeal the decision
– that appeal period applies
to any road that has had a
certain name for more than 25
years.
At a subsequent meeting on
Jan. 17, Select Board Vice Chair
Tina Hein reported there had
been no appeals.
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