Business

Indian motorcycle business seeks expansion

WESTFIELD – The City Council will schedule a public hearing for a special permit application to expand an existing motorcycle sales and service business to a second location in the city.
Dennis Bolduc, owner of the Indian Motorcycle of Springfield franchise, is currently operating his business at 962 Southampton Road, but plans to establish a second location at 1120 Southampton Road.
The 1120 Southampton Road location, a short distance south of the North Road intersection, was formerly used as a antique car sales and service business, but since the antique vehicle dealership, which had a Class 2 Auto Agent license to sell used vehicle, has been out of business for more than a year, a new auto agent license is required.
Bolduc must secure a special permit from the City Council before he can apply for a Class 1 auto agent license from the city’s License Commission to sell new and used motorcycles at the second business location.
The Council members voted Thursday night to send the special permit request to its License Committee and to slate a public hearing to hear details of the business expansion is at a second Southampton Road location.
Ward 4 Councilor Mary O’Connell requested the City Clerk’s office to advertise the public hearing under both the motor vehicle sale special permit application and under a special permit for the Water Resource Protection District zoning ordinance. O’Connell said the second business location is within the Barnes Aquifer Protect zone, which also requires a special permit from the Planning Board.
“This business is over the aquifer,” O’Connell said. “I’d like to amend the motion and to publish the public hearing notice with the aquifer notation.”
O’Connell said her concern is about what materials will be used or stored at the site as part of the day-today business operations.
The City Council approved the Water Resource Protection District zoning ordinance on March 18 of this year. The intent and purposes of the Water Resource Protection District are: to promote the health, safety and general welfare of the community; to protect, preserve and maintain the public water supply and the lands that contribute to it; to conserve the natural water resources within the City; and to prevent the pollution of the public water supply of the City and surrounding areas.

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