Tyngsborough Creates Middlesex-Westford Corridor Committee, Advances Fire Station Review

Select Board · Meeting of June 29, 2026

Tyngsborough Select Board creates a new commercial corridor planning committee and sets a July 27 deadline for fire station cost-cutting options. The board voted 5-0 Monday to establish the Middlesex and Westford Road Visioning Committee, a new body focused on zoning, design standards, utility infrastructure, and walkability along the town's primary commercial corridor, and appointed Select Board Member Nathaniel Marino as its representative; whether to formally disband the existing Economic Development Advisory Committee will be taken up at the July 13 meeting. In a joint session, the board and Fire Station Building Committee agreed to run community listening sessions concurrently with an internal scope-reduction analysis, after Town Manager Colin Loiselle reported 172 public survey responses in less than a week.

Building committee member Ed warned that roughly $4.8 million of the defeated $24.8 million proposal represents fixed baseline costs before any building is designed, and Vice Chair Eric C. Eldridge said the board will ultimately need to give the committee a target number: "That number is going to be uncomfortable no matter what it is." Fire Chief Wes Russell confirmed the town's tanker apparatus cannot fit at the Lakeview station, effectively ruling out a two-station model without a full facility rebuild.

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Source: the Select Board meeting of June 29, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.