Wayland’s Design Review Advisory Board pushed back on chain link fencing at the Castle Road pump station at its Sept. 29 meeting. Public Works Director Tom Holder and Kleinfelder project manager Kirsten Ryan presented revisions made since the Sept. 9 Planning Board hearing, including cutting the fenced footprint roughly in half, reorienting the emergency generator behind the building, and dropping a septic system after concluding the town can win a waiver. Chair William Sterling said the parcel is “basically the entrance to that neighborhood” and should read as residential, and members floated ornamental fencing on the Castle Road and Old Connecticut Path frontages with chain link only on the hidden north side. The board specified wood-grain siding in a bark-toned gray with dark trim and no white accent. Ryan said the generator measures about 70 decibels at the unit and no more than 60 at the property line. No vote was taken.
With three of five seats filled, the board voted 3-0 to recommend a 24-by-144-inch aluminum sign with raised lettering for Liberty Pizza at 114-122 Main St., a design the plaza owner will replicate across all five storefronts. Sterling deferred review of a town water pump station at Route 126 and Castle Road, saying a six-foot security fence shown near the corner would block views at an intersection where he “almost got hit pulling out.” The Department of Public Works is calculating a permissible fence setback and height. The board also approved its annual report as amended, combining meeting counts into a single total of 11 meetings between July 1, 2025, and July 1, 2026.
