SOUTHWICK – After several months of going through the long process with the Planning Board, New England Disc Golf Center was approved by the Planning Board in a public hearing on Tuesday night.
Partial business owners of the disc golf facility, Randy Brown, Freda Brown, and Drew Gardner were issued a special use permit form the Planning Board in order to be granted access to start the facility.
The Planning Board did a roll-call vote and had the necessary four votes needed to officially approve the disc golf site on 41 & 51 John Mason Rd.
The partial business owners still have another step to get by in this process as a 20-day appeal process will be issued in the next few days. This allows the community to have the right to appeal the approval of this particular business.
Partial business owners of the proposed disc golf course, Freda Brown and Drew Gardner just had their facility get approved by the Planning Board. (Photo by Greg Fitzpatrick)
Gardner will be anxiously waiting for the appeal process to hopefully come to an end.
“Waiting for it to finish, then if we don’t get appealed, we can start,” said Gardner.
If there are no appeals made in the 20-day frame, New England Disc Golf will then be able to start the process with their facility.
According to Gardner, the first priorities will consist of business planning, allocating the money and funding as well as the beginning of the construction work.
“We have a certain amount of course construction done already but we can get it to a point when it can be open,” said Gardner.
The expected target date for the disc golf facility to open is sometime in the upcoming spring.
