Mansfield Planning Board Directs Draft Approval for Reservoir Street Hotel and Retail Complex

MANSFIELD -- October 3, 2018, Mansfield Planning Board moves toward conditional approval of Reservoir Street hotel and retail complex. The board voted unanimously at its October 3 meeting to direct Planning Director Sean Burke to prepare a draft positive decision for a special permit covering a hotel, restaurant, retail, and office development at 10 and 30 Reservoir Street, proposed by Connelly Providence LLC, with a final vote expected at the October 17 meeting. Project engineer Bob Reid presented revised engineering plans addressing two rounds of peer-review comments, including sewer connection changes, stormwater table corrections, and a new plan sheet showing off-site improvements to Reservoir Street, a sidewalk, widened roadway, a right-turn-only lane accommodating four queued vehicles, and a traffic signal pending MassDOT indirect access permit approval. The board outlined conditions to include in the draft decision, among them requiring all roadway improvements and the traffic signal to be in place before the site opens, requiring the applicant to return with building renderings for board approval before each phase of construction, prohibiting commercial parking and tailgating on site, and ensuring landscaping around each building before occupancy. The board also continued a separate special permit hearing for a 51 West Church Street parking application to November 7 at 7:15 p.m.