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Kenilworth planning board approves four‑lot subdivision for CoreWeave amid public concern over data center
Summary
The Kenilworth Planning Board voted to approve a conforming, variance‑free preliminary and final four‑lot subdivision of land owned by CoreWeave, while dozens of residents urged the board to delay or reject the split pending answers about a proposed data‑center project, utilities, noise and water impacts.
The Kenilworth Planning Board on April 28 approved application 26002, a preliminary and final major subdivision that divides the former Merck parcel on Galloping Hill Road into four separate lots owned by CoreWeave, despite an extended public‑comment period in which residents demanded more transparency about a related data‑center proposal.
The vote followed testimony from the applicant’s attorney, Stephen Hale, and a sworn surveyor, Matthew Sippel of Langan Engineering, who said the plan is a variance‑free subdivision that creates four conforming lots from a roughly 35–36‑acre parcel. Planner Kevin O’Brien told the board the subdivision meets redevelopment‑plan and zoning criteria and that any future development or site‑plan applications would be noticed and reviewed separately.
Why it matters: dozens of residents and regional stakeholders attended the hearing and pressed the board on issues they said were already unfolding at the site — including…
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