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Planning board approves modified site plan for contractor yard at 360 South Worcester Street
Summary
The Norton Planning Board approved a site-plan modification for a contractor yard at 360 South Worcester Street, splitting a previously approved large building into smaller structures, with conditions addressing hours, stormwater, and neighborhood buffering; two members abstained. The vote followed testimony from the applicant and a brief public comment period.
The Norton Planning Board voted to approve a modification to the site-plan for 360 South Worcester Street, allowing the applicant to replace a previously approved 35,200-square-foot building with a cluster of smaller buildings and reduced paving while maintaining the original access points.
Applicant representatives described a layout that breaks a single large building into three smaller structures (one roughly 12,200 square feet), retains the approved access points, reduces overall pavement, and relocates outdoor materials and equipment storage behind fencing at the rear of the site. The engineer told the board the project uses double catch basins and a subsurface stormwater detention facility similar to the previous approval; the town’s peer reviewer and the Conservation Commission signed off on the stormwater design after minor technical edits.
Paul (staff member) said the septic system and test pits have been completed and that sewer and water connections are planned from Southwester Street; final Board of Health sign-off is required for septic. The applicant said site operations are intended as a laydown and equipment-storage yard rather than a processing or crushing operation, and that typical morning activity would involve approximately two to four trucks and short (three-to-four minute) loading times.
Resident Debbie Winston, speaking during public comment, asked whether the project under discussion was indeed for 360 South Worcester Street. After the board closed the hearing, the board moved to approve the site-plan modification (MSP-3) "with standard conditions and additional conditions as per the prior special condition or site plan review," including explicit operational-hour limits; Sundays were removed from allowed operating hours.
The motion passed by voice vote; the transcript records two members abstaining but does not include a full roll-call tally. The approval is subject to preparation of written conditions and any remaining department approvals (Board of Health sign-off on the septic and final administrative conditions drafted by staff).
