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Design team outlines South River Road fire substation; committee endorsed plan 6–1

Bedford Town Council · October 9, 2024
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Summary

Architects and cost consultants presented a right‑sized, four‑bay South River Road fire substation concept and budgetary estimate to the council; the Facilities Committee voted 6–1 to recommend advancing the project for budget consideration, but the council took no binding action tonight.

A Facilities Committee presentation on Oct. 9 laid out a reduced-scope fire substation design for South River Road and a detailed budget estimate intended to inform a potential warrant article and bonding request.

Architect Bob Robichak (LaValle Brentsinger) described the site layout, four apparatus bays with a 60‑foot minimum apron, separate visitor and staff parking, potential south-facing solar, and internal contamination control zones (red/warm/green) with extractor and locker-room flows. “These kinds of facilities are very hard to expand at a later date,” Robichak said, noting the design aims to be “forward thinking” for a building intended to last…

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