Goshen planning board raises parking, snow-removal and safety concerns about proposed student-bus depot

The Goshen Planning Board discussed a proposal to use a property in the town for a student-bus storage and service facility that would stage roughly three dozen buses, with board members focusing on employee parking, snow removal, fuel-tank placement, and emergency access.

Board members said the applicant told the Planning Board the operation staggers buses by departure order and pre-stages vehicles overnight, but members pressed for more detail about how that operating practice would work on the proposed site. Concerns centered on the existing gravel surface on much of the lot, which several members said will not hold line paint or orderly stalls and may rut under repeated heavy truck and bus traffic.

Planning board member Louie said the operator typically “park[s] them in a way that the earliest route goes out first,”…