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Board approves Park Place padel club building and grants setback variance amid neighbor concerns about noise
Summary
The Historic Preservation Board approved a new 3,731 sq ft health and fitness club with seven padel courts at 502 Park Place and granted variances for court enclosures, with conditions requiring landscape buffers; a nearby resident raised concerns about noise, train activity and parking.
The Historic Preservation Board approved a proposal to construct a 3,731‑square‑foot health and fitness club with seven padel courts at 502 Park Place and also granted variances for the courts’ enclosure setbacks, conditioning the approvals on screening and landscape buffers.
Applicants revised the building design after earlier board comments, replacing modern vertical slat siding with painted horizontal clapboard, changing exterior columns to a historically influenced steel column profile, simplifying decorative metalwork, and selecting curved prefabricated light fixtures with subtle ironwork.…
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