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Planning Board approves 9,000‑sq‑ft emergency veterinary clinic at 250 South River Road

2245802 · January 27, 2025
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Summary

The board approved a site plan and a waiver to reduce the rear landscape strip to 5 feet for a proposed 9,000-square-foot emergency, trauma and specialty veterinary clinic; conditions include standard precedent items and pedestrian connectivity.

The Bedford Planning Board on Jan. 27 approved a site plan for a proposed approximately 9,000-square-foot veterinary hospital at 250 South River Road (Lot 23-98-4). The approval includes a waiver to allow a five-foot rear landscape strip where 14 feet is required, precedent conditions listed in the staff report and several technical permits to be completed before construction.

Applicant teams said the facility will provide 24‑hour specialty and emergency care, surgical and trauma services, and will employ roughly 25 to 30 staff with up to 10 doctors on site over shifts. Tom Burns of TF Moran, the civil engineer on the project, described the site as a 1.25‑acre parcel subdivided from the adjacent Country Inn & Suites property, accessed via a shared driveway and served by municipal water and sewer. “We did submit application to DOT…

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