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Votes at a glance: Lowell Planning Board, April 7, 2025
Summary
Summary of formal actions at the April 7 Lowell Planning Board meeting: minutes approved, continuances granted, and four park tree‑removal permits approved with replacement planting commitments.
The Lowell Planning Board took the following formal actions at its April 7, 2025 meeting.
Votes at a glance
- Approval — March 17, 2025 meeting minutes. Motion made, seconded and approved by voice vote.
- Continuance (applicant request) — 133 Clark Road (special permit and site-plan items including reductions to frontage and driveway length, Section 5.2.9, Section 6.7 and Section 11.4): continued to April 24, 2025 at the applicant’s request; motion approved.
- Tree‑removal permits — Approved (public shade hearings) for four parks: • North Common (413 Fletcher Street): remove 1 tree; replacement planting: 1 tree. Approved. • Father Maguire Park (80 Woodward Avenue): remove 8 trees; replacement planting: 8 trees. Approved. • Saint Louis Park (406 West Sixth Street): remove 17 trees; replacement planting: 47 trees. Approved; board requested every effort be made to repurpose and save recently planted young trees where practicable. • Clemente Park (803 Middlesex Street): remove 20 trees; replacement planting: 50 trees. Approved.
- Continuance — 558 Gorham Street (special permit/site-plan review for 4‑ and 2‑unit townhouse buildings totaling six units): continued to May 5, 2025 to allow the applicant to address written departmental comments on drainage, fire access/sweep-path, snow storage, parking layout and curb-cut width.
Notes
Where the transcript recorded only voice votes, the board recorded unanimous "aye" votes and the chair cast a yes vote; detailed numerical tallies were not provided in the meeting record. Several approvals included staff commitments to finalize planting, snow‑storage and construction coordination details during the permit and construction phases.
