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.
WORCESTER The Planning Board Wednesday night approved a definitive site plan for the proposed demolition and redevelopment of the Greendale Mall as an Amazon last mile distribution center.
Residents who attended the virtual meeting continued to bring up concerns about traffic, pedestrian and cyclist safety, environmental impacts, noise, and the online retail giant s business practices that they raised at the last Planning Board meeting and at a community meeting Monday night.
They again called for more ironclad commitments in the form of a community benefits agreement with the city, and wanted assurances that the company could be held accountable if its project turned out not to operate as it was laid out in the site plan application.