While blasting has continued at the site of the former Symmes Hospital since late April, town officials have decided to seek a medical tenant just awhile longer. Town Planner Kevin O'Brien told YourArlington: 

"Following up on their joint meeting on April 14, the Board of Selectmen and the Arlington Redevelopment Board met Wednesday, May 21, and discussed further the idea of allowing a wider range of uses on the medical office building site at the Symmes project.

"The inability to attract a medical use for the site caused the Redevelopment Board to raise the question with the selectmen.

"After some discussion, the boards decided not to allow other uses. They thought that medical use should be pursued awhile longer.

"If other uses were to be allowed, Town Meeting would have to be consulted because a resolution brought by the Redevelopment Board and passed by the 2004 Special Town Meeting said that "only medical use shall be allowed on the site of the planned medical office building unless approval is given by a future Town Meeting for an alternative use."

Meanwhile, Michele A. Barry, head of the Symmes Neighborhood Advisory Committee, reported that after blasting began April 30, it continued through May without notable incident.

"So far, I haven’t heard from anyone that the blasting has had any impact on their homes," she wrote in a mid-May e-mail.

She added: "Though it is more than a little disconcerting to feel your home shake like that. 

"With months of blasting still to go, and the incessant pounding of the rock processing machine, we all hope that it remains an unsettling irritant rather than the cause of damage."

At the Symmes construction Web site, at www.symmesconstruction.com/, the latest SNAC minutes are still those from February. Barry wrote that later minutes are pending.

SNAC is expected to get updated information by the end of May from Kevin Nigro, the town's representative to the Symmes project.

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