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Zoning board continues Granbury Heights hearing after peer reviewers close technical comments; developer commits to five-year traffic monitoring
Summary
At a Dec. 19 Zoning Board of Appeals meeting in the Town of Lakeville, project representatives said peer-review comments for the Granbury Heights proposal at 43 Main Street are closed and MassDOT found no off‑site mitigation necessary. The developer pledged a five‑year, post‑occupancy traffic-monitoring program starting six months after occupancy; the board continued the hearing to Jan. 28, 2025.
The Town of Lakeville Zoning Board of Appeals on Dec. 19 heard updates on the Granbury Heights development at 43 Main Street and agreed to continue the public hearing to Jan. 28, 2025, after applicants and peer reviewers described progress on engineering, landscaping and traffic matters.
John O'Leary, representing the project applicant, told the board that civil and transportation review comments submitted by peer reviewers have been addressed. O'Leary said the team "has completed all technical review of our plan" and is finishing landscape revisions after receiving Radnor Design's peer-review comments.
Liz Ennis, the civil site peer reviewer, said the applicant responded to Apex Engineering's comments and that "all of our items have been closed out in terms of civil site." Steve Shicari, the transportation peer reviewer, said his recent comments were minor and closed and noted that the traffic study did not include a noise analysis: "The traffic study did not incorporate noise."
Resident John Berry asked whether noise had been considered. The applicant deferred technical traffic questions to their traffic engineer, Matthew (Matt) Keeley, who told the board the team will implement a five‑year traffic‑monitoring program. "We are committed to 5 years of traffic monitoring," Keeley said, adding monitoring would begin six months after occupancy and would be reported annually to MassDOT. Keeley said monitoring would include counts at site driveways and that, if observed traffic substantially exceeded projections, MassDOT could require additional Transportation Demand Management measures.
On operational performance at the nearby Bridal/Bridge/Main intersection, Keeley reported the traffic analysis shows the critical movement is level‑of‑service D in weekday mornings and F in weekday evenings under both existing and build scenarios, with only a negligible increase in delay from the proposed development.
Board members directed counsel and the applicant to begin drafting decision documents and related site‑plan review materials and voted to continue the public hearing to Jan. 28, 2025, to allow time to finalize materials and incorporate conditions.
Next steps: the board will accept a draft decision and conditions from counsel and the applicant ahead of the continued hearing; MassDOT will oversee the monitoring program and may require additional mitigation if monitoring shows traffic exceeds projections.
