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Conservation commission recommends ZBA approve variance for Route 101 gas station expansion
Summary
The Bedford Conservation Commission recommended that the Zoning Board of Adjustment grant variances so owners can expand the building and add a dumpster pad within the 50‑foot wetland setback at the mobile gas station at 137 Route 101, after hearing that work would reduce net impervious cover and include erosion controls.
The Bedford Conservation Commission on June 24 recommended the Zoning Board of Adjustment approve variances to allow a small building addition and a new dumpster enclosure within the 50‑foot wetland setback at the mobile gas station at 137 Route 101.
Joe Piccirilli and Jeff Merritt of Granite Engineering presented plans for a renovation and roughly 300‑square‑foot addition to the existing building and a concrete dumpster pad. The applicants, Pete and Becky Raspowitz, operate the station under lease, Piccirilli said. The lot is roughly 0.6 acres and has housed a gas station since about the 1940s, the engineers told the commission. Piccirilli said the proposed work would impact about 2,100 square…
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