Carroll School’s property in Wayland. The Lincoln/Wayland town line is shown n dark red. (Click image to enlarge)
Lincoln officials are closely monitoring plans by the Carroll School to significantly expand its site in Wayland abutting the Lincoln town line and has invited the school to the board’s next meeting on October 20.
The biggest worry for Lincoln is an increase in traffic at a campus on Waltham Road (which becomes Old Sudbury Road in Lincoln) that would eventually be able to accommodate five times the number of students it now does, if current plans are approved. A traffic study the school submitted along with other documents to the Wayland Planning Board says the number of car trips would increase by more than 900 (about 450 each way) on school days.
“It appears to us that the traffic study didn’t extend into Lincoln,” which risks having traffic queues at pickup and dropoff times, Town Administrator Tim Higgins said at the October 6 Select Board meeting. The board has invited leadership team to its next meeting on October 20 to discuss its proposal.
“Given the potential impacts on Lincoln’s adjoining roadways to include Old Sudbury Road, Linway Road, and Longmeadow Road, it would seem sensible to coordinate traffic mitigation strategies,” Higgins wrote in an email on October 7 to Wayland Town Planner Robert Hummel
“I anticipate that we will be submitting initial reactions and suggestions for your consideration shortly after our meeting with the school.”
The Wayland Planning Board will hold a hybrid public hearing on the proposal on October 15, which is expected to continue on October 29 and perhaps November 12.
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