Over the past year, the town’s effort to collect resident input in the Comprehensive Plan Project has yielded unique and useful perspectives about our current assets and community issues. Through public forums, community meetings, and suggestion boxes in public spaces such as the Watertown Free Public Library, participants have shared their views and desires, with the goal of driving future policy and development.
Tomorrow is the annual Faire on the Square. I’m looking forward to seeing many of you and hearing your vision for Watertown’s future. Many candidates for Town Council, in addition to candidates for School Committee, will be hosting a booth in the Thaxter Street area of the event.
I’ve thought long and hard about the impact we can all make as a community during these important town celebrations. Recently, a word cloud was created as a result of feedback from the comprehensive plan. Areas such as traffic, overdevelopment, schools, lack of trees, and transportation are large issues that have been identified by our residents.
In an effort to begin addressing one of those issues tomorrow, the Committee to Elect Michael Dattoli will be supplying Watertown children with tree seedlings at our Faire on the Square booth. The seedlings are intended to be planted in yards across Watertown in a coordinated effort over the next few days. Overall, two hundred and fifty Colorado Blue Spruce trees can be planted in our community’s soil by, and for, our future generation. This is meaningful in two ways. First, we can literally bring more trees to Watertown, which is an issue that has been brought up by residents during the past few months of campaigning. Secondly, the coordinated planting represents my commitment to listening to residents’ concerns and finding ways to implement new ideas that speak directly towards our collaborative goals.
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The comprehensive plan is a huge opportunity for our next Town Council and I look forward to continuing to find ways to work with our residents to address relevant issues. Please stop by our booth tomorrow to sign up for a yard sign, volunteer for the campaign, and pledge to plant a tree for Watertown.
See you all tomorrow,
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Michael Dattoli, candidate for Town Councilor at-Large
61 Carroll Street
