ADAMS, Mass. — Plans to turn the former community center into housing has been passed by the Zoning Board of Appeals and will be next before the Planning Board this.
ADAMS, Mass. — A local man's request to have chickens at his Second Street home is ruffling his neighbor's feathers. Nearly a dozen people attended Tuesday's Zoning.
Brian Koczela, of BEK Associates, representing property owner Donald Sommer, went before the Zoning Board of Appeals last Tuesday to ask for a slate of variances that would allow Sommer to separate the two structures on the 13-15 Commercial St. plot. Sommer, who owns a stretch of properties on Commercial Street, plans to renovate the First Baptist Church and possibly use it as a music school. However, according to Koczela, the parsonage structure may not be in Sommer s immediate plans. I am not privy to the financial aspect of what they want to do with the parsonage building, but it is not needed in this current game plan, Koczela said. I am sure you can understand that the church is a very hard building to renovate. The idea is that they might be able to bring in some revenue or own the building in a different way. But they want it out of the church parcel and under separate ownership.