A map showing the location of the Carroll School property (click to enlarge).
A drawing showing where the athletic fields will be located.
The Wayland Planning Board has approved a plan for an expansion of Lincoln’s Carroll School on property adjacent to the Wayland/Lincoln town line.
The Carroll School purchased two adjoining parcels last spring for playing fields and educational facilities for two grades that are now housed at its Baker Bridge Road site in Lincoln. The project on 11 acres at 39 and 45 Waltham Rd. in Wayland (close to the town line where it becomes Old Sudbury Rd.) will convert the existing main building and pool house to serve up to 60 students supported by up to 40 staff and also create two playing fields. It hopes to have the playing fields ready by spring 2017 and accommodate students in fall 2017.
State law grants exemptions to certain zoning restrictions for agricultural, religious, and educational organizations. However, on September 6, the Wayland Planning Board approved a list of conditions aimed at minimizing the impact on the neighborhood. Among them:
- All parking, pick-up and drop-off must be done on the property itself and not on town roads.
- The athletic fields may not have lighting or a permanent electronic scoreboard.
- Maintenance, landscaping work, deliveries and trash removal are prohibited on Sundays as well as before 7 a.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. on Saturdays.
- The lighting plan for the parking area in the front must ensure that there is no “light spillover” onto abutting properties.
- The school will pay up to $5,ooo for a traffic study of existing conditions on Waltham Road and its major intersections in Both Lincoln and Wayland. If any traffic calming measures are proposed as a result of the study, the school will contribute up to an additional $5,000 toward the work.