Marlborough council asks mayor to explore fire station on west

The City Council on Monday night voted to ask Mayor Arthur Vigeant to look into building a fire station on the west side or finding another way to more adequately provide emergency services to one of the fastest-growing parts of the city.

An order from Ward 3 Councilor Matt Elder and City Council President Patricia Pope asked Vigeant to look into the options for the west side, which is seeing a boom in new business accompanied by hundreds of new apartments expected there.

During a recent meeting on a proposal from AvalonBay, which is applying for permission to build 350 apartments in a mixed-use, campus-style development at the former Hewlett-Packard parcel on Forest Street, the police and fire chiefs said their departments will need additional resources to serve a growing population.

The need for a fire station on the west side has come up frequently in discussions around new projects like the Forest Street mixed-use development being considered and the 225-unit Brookview Village 40B development that was approved on Ames Street late last year.

"This is something that has been discussed sort of formally and informally for a long time," Elder said at Monday?s meeting. "I just want the Mayor to talk about the options out there and figure out the costs associated."

The order put forth by Elder and Pope asks Vigeant to explore options including building a new fire station on a parcel donated to the city years ago by MetLife, building a smaller "satellite" station for emergency services and forming a partnership with Northbrough. The order, approved by the council in a 10-0 vote, asked Vigeant to report back to the council within 90 days.

In other business, the council approved a special permit allowing the owners of Bolton Street Tavern to build an outdoor deck overlooking the Fort Meadow Reservoir. The special permit was granted with conditions that there be no smoking on the deck and that it not be open past 10 p.m. during the week and 11 p.m. on weekends.
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Source: http://www.wickedlocal.com/marlborough/news/x853693037/Marlborough-council-asks-mayor-to-explore-fire-station-on-west?rssfeed=true

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