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Appeals Denied Against 34-Acre Shopping Center Development

MANSFIELD, MA-Karl Clemmey's plan to redevelop his auto repair business here on Route 140 into a strip mall has been repeatedly thwarted by a series of appeals filed by an abutter. The appeals have been denied but it is unclear if there will be more to come.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on February 25, 2002

MANSFIELD, MA-A 34-acre shopping plaza to be located here on Route 140 has been repeatedly delayed by a series of appeals filed by an abutter to the project. The most recent appeal was denied but it is unclear whether additional appeals will be filed.

Karl Clemmey submitted a proposal to develop a strip mall here where his auto repair business is currently located over two years ago. According to a representative in the town’s planning department, the plan–which the town’s planning board approved–includes a Staples, a Home Depot, a restaurant and a 64,000-sf Shaw’s Supermarket.

The Royal Oak Trust, which is headed by Richard Baccari, head of Providence, Rhode Island-based Churchill and Banks Limited, owns 3.8 acres that backs up into the proposed site of the mall. Richard Lewis, the town’s environmental planner and a consultant to the town’s zoning board of appeals, tells GlobeSt.com that the Trust first filed an appeal against the town’s conservation commission, which determined that Clemmey’s site was an isolated wetland and not a bordering wetland. That decision was upheld by the state.

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