Lincoln Planning Board endorses wetlands zoning repeal, conditionally OKs Conant Road lighting changes

LINCOLN — February 24, 2026 — Lincoln Planning Board clears wetlands repeal and conditionally approves Conant Road redesign. The board voted 4-0 to endorse Article 34 deleting Section 12.2, the W-Wetland and Watershed Protection District, after Conservation Director Michelle Grzenda confirmed the Conservation Commission had endorsed the change. A second 4-0 vote granted Hyde Park Nominee Trust a minor modification at 59 Conant Road, where owner Andrew Lo is dropping a pool and greenhouse, adding a covered outdoor kitchen and a koi pond, and cutting impervious area from 19,291 to 16,306 square feet. The board carved out four underwater 3,000 K spotlights at the koi pond for separate review by Planning Director Paula Vaughn-MacKenzie and the co-chairs, and conditioned approval on CEI's sign-off on revised stormwater plans. Working through the Dark Skies draft, Co-Chair Lynn DeLisi called a blanket 10 p.m. cutoff for newly compliant lighting "kind of ridiculous" because it would not reach existing noncompliant fixtures; the board narrowed the cutoff to non-residential properties before the March 10 public hearing.