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Brentwood committee gets Turner Group update; budget committee warns tax-cap constraints
Summary
Turner Group presented preliminary site and floor assessments for a new municipal facility and police department. The committee discussed three development options and heard the municipal budget committee chair warn that bond payments could exceed the town's voter-approved tax cap unless the project is sized to fit available new-money capacity.
Brentwood's Municipal Building Committee on Aug. 12 heard an update from Turner Group on site surveying and preliminary floor plans for a possible new police facility and municipal offices, and discussed cost, parking and schedule ahead of a planned September meeting to review concepts.
The Turner Group representative, Doug, told the committee his team completed a topographic survey and a Matterport point cloud of the existing building and will begin producing concept test-fits. "We were able to bring that size down," Doug said, adding the current program is roughly "75% of what the Weston & Sampson program was as far as building size." He said the next steps are test fits for parking, adjacencies and sheltered parking for cruisers and staff.
The update matters because the committee is preparing cost…
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