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Norwood Conservation Commission OKs Moderna parking redevelopment with conditions to protect wetlands
Summary
The commission approved an order of conditions for Moderna’s parking-lot redevelopment at 10 Forbes Drive, allowing 35 freezer 'clean units' on concrete pads while requiring stormwater permit review, a SWIP, and a planting plan to replace trees removed in the riverfront buffer.
The Town of Norwood Conservation Commission on Nov. 5 approved an order of conditions allowing Moderna to redevelop about 1.6 acres of an existing paved area at 10 Forbes Drive for a storage and parking area for 35 trailer-mounted freezer "clean units," subject to specific conditions intended to protect adjacent wetlands and floodplain.
At a public hearing, PAR Corporation engineer Joe Weed described the proposal as redevelopment of an existing parking area to include concrete pads, underground electrical pedestals fed from the mansion parcel, and a perimeter security fence. "They're basically freezer, like freezer container storages that are mounted on a trailer chassis," Weed said, describing how the units will be parked on concrete pads and plugged into electrical pedestals.
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