Planning Board approves Lakeville hospital redevelopment plan
Robert Barboza
LAKEVILLE After months of public hearings during the town’s multi-departmental review process for large scale Development Opportunities District (DOD) projects, the Planning Board formally voted on April 1 to approve site plans and a special permit for the proposed redevelopment of the Lakeville Hospital campus as a warehouse and distribution center.
Commercial property developer Rhino Capital is proposing to tear down the seven abandoned buildings in the hospital complex and build a 402,500 square foot building to be leased to as yet unknown tenants. According to submitted plans, the building would be sited just over 400 feet from Main Street, and be outfitted with 128 loading docks for tractor trailer truck deliveries and shipments.
LAKEVILLE After a long series of public hearings on the proposed redevelopment of the Lakeville Hospital campus off Main Street, the town’s 43D Review Committee appears ready to approve the site plans and special permit requests needed for the commercial project.
At its Feb. 18 virtual meeting, the review committee members seemed pretty satisfied with the latest small adjustments to the site plans, made to comply with requests from town boards or the peer review engineer scrutinizing the plans for the town. Planning Board Chair Mark Knox, running the review committee meeting, set March 4 as the date the panel would review the long list of conditions likely to be attached to the special permit.
LAKEVILLE The Planning Board held its third public hearing on site plans for the proposed redevelopment of the Lakeville Hospital campus for a light manufacturing, warehouse or distribution center on Jan. 7. The joint meeting with Conservation Commission, Board of Health and Open Space Committee members lasted long into the night.
The Planning Board spent nearly four hours in a virtual meeting with developers, abutters, and town officials digging into the architectural details of the building, landscaping and lighting plans, and noise mitigation measures. More than an hour was spent on the findings of a study on projected noise from proposed operations, and discussing potential ways to minimize tractor trailer truck noise, back-up alarms, and the sounds of rooftop mechanical equipment at the site.