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Planning board continues review of 219 Littleton Road redevelopment after detailed traffic, stormwater and design scrutiny
Summary
The board heard extended peer review comments on the 219 Littleton Road redevelopment covering traffic modeling, sight-distance and safety mitigation, stormwater and wetlands constraints, waivers from subdivision rules, bus-stop coordination, pedestrian access, historic-house preservation and an affordability mix proposal; the board continued the item to May 4 to allow revised plans and further consultant review.
The Westford Planning Board continued the public hearings on the proposed redevelopment at 219 Littleton Road after an extensive, multi-consultant review of traffic, site design and environmental constraints.
Brian Bisel, the applicant’s transportation engineer, described the study’s methodology and several remaining items: he said the team used a "net trip generation increase" approach because counts taken when the hotel was operating were low and adding the proposed residential trips yielded a net increase; he acknowledged the town’s peer reviewer’s request for a Saturday analysis and said the team will provide it but expects it will show a net reduction for some measures. Bisel also presented stopping sight-distance and intersection sight-distance measures, crash analysis results along the frontage, a 1% growth assumption for background traffic and outstanding distribution volumes requested by the peer reviewer.
Town peer reviewer Sam Doro, senior project manager with TET, asked the board to require explicit commitments on design elements that affect safety…
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