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Zoning board approves indoor softball training facility at 6 Brook Road with parking conditions
Summary
The Needham Zoning Board of Appeals granted a special permit for Advanced Softball Training LLC to open an indoor softball training facility at 6 Brook Road, approving a parking waiver and several operating conditions, including limits on students and staffing and two short-term drop-off spaces.
The Needham Zoning Board of Appeals voted unanimously to approve a special permit for Advanced Softball Training LLC to operate an indoor softball training facility with batting cages at 6 Brook Road.
The decision, made at a public hearing after residents and coaches spoke in favor, allows the business to occupy about 60% (3,346 square feet) of a one-story commercial building in the Mixed Use 128 zoning district and waives strict adherence to parking-count and parking-design standards under the town bylaw, subject to conditions.
Board members and the applicant focused discussion on parking demand and use classification. Attorney George Giunta Jr., representing the applicant, described the proposed layout and operations: three batting cages, movable netting, strength and conditioning equipment, one-on-one lessons and group instruction capped at 18…
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