{"id":11174,"date":"2025-11-20T19:19:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=11174"},"modified":"2025-11-20T19:19:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:19:56","slug":"planning-board-candidate-interview-with-former-town-councilor-john-farrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=11174","title":{"rendered":"Planning Board Candidate Interview with Former Town Councilor John Farrell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Town Council interview for a planning board seat with former Town Councilor John Farrell. Farrell, who has served on the\u00a0planning board and town council, discusses his extensive experience, including his involvement with the\u00a0Open Space Committee\u00a0and his historical knowledge of community development issues. The questions posed by a council member often focus on\u00a0historical decisions\u00a0related to preserving land, the potential for\u00a0conflicts of interest, and the need to\u00a0update town regulations, with the candidate defending his past actions and clarifying his positions on issues like developer-funded traffic studies. The exchange highlights the\u00a0tension between development and conservation\u00a0within the community and the candidate&#8217;s perspective on the role of the planning board and council in these matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Planning Board Candidate Interview with Former Town Councilor John Farrell\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MWmJ6o8juqI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town Council interview for a planning board seat with former Town Councilor John Farrell. Farrell, who has served on the\u00a0planning board and town council, discusses his extensive experience, including his involvement with the\u00a0Open Space Committee\u00a0and his historical knowledge of community development issues. The questions posed by a council member often&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11176,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174\/revisions\/11176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}