Planning Board approves Carroll School health module and Page Road pool house

LINCOLN — July 14, 2020 — Lincoln Planning Board reframes South Lincoln panel, keeps housing seat and zoning role inside subcommittee. After more than an hour of public comment from roughly a dozen residents, the board adopted a rewritten charge reconstituting the South Lincoln Planning Implementation Committee as a five-member advisory body — two planning board members, one selectman, one housing representative, one finance committee member and a non-voting planner — and seated Co-Chairs Margaret Olson and Gary Taylor in the planning board seats on a 5-0 vote. Co-Chair Lynn DeLisi pressed unsuccessfully to drop the dedicated housing seat; former Housing Commission chair Alan and advocate Sharon Antia argued housing expertise was essential, and Taylor said "leaving housing out of this whole equation just makes no sense whatsoever," invoking the board's own 1971 letter acknowledging Lincoln's exclusionary zoning. The board also approved a temporary modular health center for the Carroll School at 25 Baker Bridge Road, a roughly 20-foot indoor pool building at 69 Page Road on a 4-0 vote with Taylor recused, and a six-month "Now Leasing" banner at Oriole Landing, where developer Andrew Consigli said leasing stood near 30 percent.