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ZBA modifies, extends Circle Avenue variance for commercial vehicle storage and adds runoff, lease-notification stipulations
Summary
The Lynn City Zoning Board of Appeals on Jan. 7 modified and extended a prior variance to allow commercial vehicle and equipment storage on a 10-acre property at 0 Circle Avenue and added conditions to reduce runoff risk and to require notification for leases longer than two years.
The Lynn City Zoning Board of Appeals on Jan. 7 modified and extended a previously granted variance to allow commercial vehicle and equipment storage on a 10-acre parcel at 0 Circle Avenue (parcel 034752027). The petitioners, Perry Linway LLC (AW Perry), represented by attorney James D. Moore and owner Bob Maloney, asked the board to clarify lease-term language and to extend the variance's effective date to May 11, 2030.
The board's 2022 decision had allowed commercial vehicle staging and short-term laydown space with a three-year review condition. The petitioner asked that the board amend the decision to read that the maximum lease term for any tenant is three years and to extend the variance an additional five years so it would remain in effect until May 11, 2030. Attorney Moore told the board the petitioners had taken the matter to the Lynn Development Board and discussed the site's redevelopment potential with city officials.
Owner Bob Maloney described current uses on the fenced, 10-acre site: "We have leases to three different tenants on the land, the 10 acres," including a tenant that accepts and stages Amazon Sprinter vans for final preparation and dispatch, a tenant that stores vehicles awaiting maintenance, and a master lessee who subleases to local tractor-trailer owners who need overnight parking. The board asked about materials storage and runoff; in response the board added a stipulation that any materials stored that could wash off in a storm event must be covered.
Petitioners and the board discussed the property's redevelopment constraints: the back parcel sits on a capped, former city landfill that the owner monitors for methane and that will require piled foundations and structural slabs for any future building. Maloney said he had granted a 0.75-acre easement to the city for a future park abutting the site and described a roughly 50-foot separation between buildable areas and the park, partially defined by overhead power lines.
The board voted to grant the modification and extension with the added stipulations and a request that the owner notify the city when any lease exceeding two years is executed. The vote was recorded as unanimous among members present.
