13 August, 2015
At the August 10th Planning Board meeting, owners of 79, 81 and 83 Hayden Rowe Street presented a plan to the board to change their zoning from "Residence B" to "Business". Their argument was based on allowing owners to make minor changes to their property and would allow them to be in zoning more suitable to their purpose as the properties are currently used for business purposes. 79 Hayden Rowe Street is the home of "Hopkinton Pediatric Dental Associates Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics".
Some of the objections of the board was if the neighbors would be okay, Claire Wright argued that this is allowing business to creep into residential neighborhoods. "A big difference from when you change what it is now to business, is that all of a sudden there is a whole host of business uses that are allowed by right into a residential district." Representative Wayne Davies countered on behalf of his client; "The actual use of the property is a business use and we are not suggesting that be changed, all we're suggesting is that the actual use is conformed to zoning district."
The board decided to look further into the proposal and avised further reference from the Zoning Advisory Committee.
