More than 430 town residents made their voices heard at the Oct. 27 Special Town Meeting where several agenda items, from infrastructure updates — such as park accessibility improvements, dam removal, and solar arrays — to new rules of development that could dynamically increase Swansea’s housing stock, were struck down by a vocal majority.

The biannual town meeting that began 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the Joseph Case High School, 70 School St., invited all registered Swansea voters to weigh in on the 21 issues up for deliberation on the agenda, many of them recommended for approval by the town’s Advisory and Finance Committee.  

Amid of flurry of social media posts urging residents to attend the meeting, the Oct. 27 hours-long public forum saw higher turnout that usual that contributed to raucous tamping down of proposed bylaws and funding for the purchase of new equipment.

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