Rehoboth Planning Board Greenlights Church Expansion Review, Farm Parcel Split

REHOBOTH -- May 21, 2014, Rehoboth Planning Board advances a 7,500-square-foot church addition to engineering review and unanimously endorses a historic farm parcel split. Community Covenant Church representative Adam Latham presented plans for an accessory building, two new parking lots, and a one-way traffic loop at 615 Fremont Street, but the board flagged a lighting plan that cuts off at the pavement edge, leaving unquantified spillage toward a neighbor living fewer than 250 feet away. The board voted unanimously to seek proposals from Outback Engineering of Middleborough and named Woodard and Curran as an alternate, with the church bearing all review costs under section 6.7 of the zoning bylaw and a 14-day turnaround requested; the earliest a decision can come is the June 18 meeting. Separately, the board endorsed a Form A land division for the estate of Edward E. Case at 57 Homestead Avenue, a property whose only recorded deed dates to 1758, over the objections of prospective buyers hoping to keep the 22 acres as a sheep farm, with the chair noting the board had no legal grounds to deny a compliant application.