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Conservation commission OKs Pleasant Street parking-lot resurfacing after wetlands review
Summary
The Norwood Conservation Commission voted to close a public hearing and issue a Negative Determination of Applicability for a parking-lot repaving at 568–580 Pleasant Street after a consultant found no jurisdictional wetland on the site; commissioners requested stormwater documentation and an alternatives analysis be provided.
Norwood Conservation Commission members voted Dec. 18 to close a public hearing and issue a Negative Determination of Applicability for a parking-lot repaving project at 568–580 Pleasant Street tied to RDA Norwood 2024-23.
The commission took up a request from an applicant identified in the filing as Compete Fitness, represented at the hearing by Dan Campbell of Level Design Group, for repaving, repair and restriping of an existing parking area that partly lies inside the 200-foot riverfront zone associated with the Neponset River. Tom Schutz, a wetland scientist with Goddard Consulting, reported that field sampling at three data points found no wetland hydrology and no dominance of wetland vegetation; he concluded the off-site area flagged on state mapping did not meet wetland criteria.
The commission’s agent, Carly Rocklin, told members the site has dark, organic-rich soils and some plants…
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