Where

610 Main Street, Waltham, MA 02452

Location from the city calendar. The posted agenda is the official notice; check it if the two differ.

Recordings of City Council meetings: MAC-TV (WCAC) (opens in new tab).

What was decided

Minutes haven't been posted on the city's Agenda Center (opens in new tab) yet, 6 days after the meeting. Minutes usually come out after the board approves them at a later meeting.

Agenda

The council will hold public hearings on special permit applications for Sweetgreen Boston, LLC and CAVA Group, Inc. at 96 Tower Road. It will also consider mayoral requests including appointments, a $120,000 vehicle appropriation, a $462,755 loan authorization, grant acceptances, and committee recommendations on CPA funding, fuel storage licenses, and other permits.

Agenda items

• Public hearing: Special Permit application at 96 Tower Road for Sweetgreen Boston, LLC
• Public hearing: Special Permit application at 96 Tower Road for CAVA Group (Recessed from 8/3/26)
• Confirmation of Richard Pizzi, Jr. as permanent member of the Waltham Council on Aging
• Confirmation of Marcia MacClary as permanent member of the Waltham Council on Aging
• Appropriation of $120,000 from Cemetery Sale of Lots & Graves account for a Chevrolet Silverado 3500 truck with snowplow package
• Adoption of amendment to compensation ordinance for election personnel costs
• Loan authorization of $462,755 for additional design services for Fire Administration Wing of the Police Station
• Acceptance of $9,000 EECBG grant funds for EV Chargers in public parking lots

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• Acceptance of $52,152 grant from Office of Grants and Research for FFY2027 Municipal Road Safety Program
• Presentation request for Police Station and Fire and 911 Headquarters plan by Tecton Architects on October 19, 2026
• Advisement request on easement and parking spaces at 210-220 Moody Street related to Special Permit application at 210 Moody Street
• Fortune Tellers license renewal at 24 Crescent Street STE 401F for Minwoo Park
• Extended Hours renewal at 12 Harvard Street for CVS Pharmacy #114
• Committee of the Whole: file communication from Attorney Connors regarding Hobbs Brook
• Committee of the Whole: file acceptance of additional lists of building names or parcels at 190 Trapelo Road
• Committee of the Whole: file Eversource Resolution
• Committee of the Whole: file draft for Cardinal Cottage affordable housing application package
• Ordinances and Rules Committee recommends approval of Special Permit for CAVA Group, Inc. at 96 Tower Road
• Long Term Debt & Capital Planning: approval of $320,000 CPA funds for Window Restoration at Gore Place
• Long Term Debt & Capital Planning: approval of $85,000 CPA funds for Exterior Restoration of Community Day Center at 20 Felton Street
• Long Term Debt & Capital Planning: approval of $50,768 additional CPA funds for Steeple Preservation and Restoration at First Parish Church
• Licenses and Franchises: approval of Fuel Storage license at 245 Fifth Avenue for ALP PHOP Manager, LLC & NWALP PHOP owner
• Licenses and Franchises: approval of Rule 95 Utility Master Plan Resolution
• Licenses and Franchises: approval of Fuel Storage licenses at 40, 50 & 60 Sylvan Road for ARE-MA
• Tabled item: 66 Brewster Road (Tabled 6/9/25)
• Rule 58 communication from FD Special Opportunities II_A, LLC
• Recessed public hearing: Special Permit MICOL at 220 Moody Street, recessed to 10/26/26
• Recessed public hearing: Special Permit Modification for Dyer's Crescent Suites, LLC at 287 Crescent Street, recessed to 11/23/26
• Recessed public hearing: Special Permit Modification for Service Credit Union at 995 Main Street, recessed to 11/23/26
• Recessed public hearing: Special Permit Application at 20 Williams Street, recessed to 11/23/26

The full text is in the city's PDF, linked below.

Agenda posted on the city website (PDF, 161 KB). Saved copy (opens in new tab), saved October 13, 2026.

Terms used here

Committee of the Whole

The whole City Council meeting as a committee, chaired by the Council's Vice President, to discuss matters before they come back to a regular Council meeting.

special permit

Permission, under the city's Zoning Ordinance, for a use that is allowed in a district only if a city board approves it. In Waltham, many are granted by the City Council after a public hearing.

CPA

Community Preservation Act. A local property tax surcharge, with state matching money, that pays for open space, historic preservation, affordable housing, and recreation.

CPC

Community Preservation Committee, which reviews requests for Community Preservation Act money and recommends how to spend it.

tabled

Set aside by a vote, to take up later. A tabled item comes back when the board votes to take it off the table.

All the terms in the glossary

Source

This meeting is listed in more than one place: the same board on the same day, and only one listing gives a time. The listings are shown here as one meeting.

• Waltham City Council Meeting (opens in new tab), on the city calendar
• Waltham City Council Meeting Docket (opens in new tab), on the city's Agenda Center

First recorded by Waltham Publick on October 13, 2026.