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Oak Street site plan: Tennis & Swim proposes 26,000 ft2 building; board asks for design, lighting and pedestrian details
Summary
Westborough Tennis & Swim seeks to build a 26,000-square-foot Oak Street facility to consolidate fitness operations; the Select Board and public requested elevations, a lighting plan showing spill limits toward nearby residences and the mobile-home park, EV-ready infrastructure, snow-storage details and coordination on pedestrian connections among the applicant's three properties.
Wesley McCarti, representing Westboro Tennis & Swim, presented a plan to build a 26,000 ft2 building on Oak Street intended to consolidate the fitness club and free capacity at the applicant's Chanty Street property for courts and pickleball. The site design shows two Oak Street curb cuts, on-site parking islands, an underground infiltration system for the front parking, and stormwater discharge areas that abut an established wetlands system along the eastern property line.
Board members and nearby residents asked for the following follow-up items before formal planning-board review: building elevations and renderings so the board can evaluate visual massing and compatibility with adjacent single-family homes; a lighting plan that demonstrates no spill onto nearby residences or the mobile-home park; an EV-readiness plan consistent with building-inspector requirements; and clarification of sidewalk/crosswalk connections and potential easements for future pedestrian links to Chanty Street and the other sites. Several speakers flagged a narrow nearby chicane and a popular pedestrian crossing used by children and raised safety concerns tied to multiple driveway points; the planning board and applicant discussed reducing curb cuts or consolidating entrances.
Applicant stated wetlands buffers and no-touch zones will remain in place and that the design locates development away from the wetland system. The applicant also said snow storage can be accommodated on the field area and that they will provide landscaping along the site frontage. The application will continue through the town's conservation and planning-board peer reviews.
Provenance: Oak Street site-plan presentation and Q&A (SEG 1704'2138).
