Planning Board continues Feeley Field hearing to April 8 amid sledding-hill concerns

SUDBURY -- March 25, 2026, Sudbury Planning Board continues Frank Feeley Fields hearing to April 8 as neighbors fight to save sledding hill. Gale Associates project manager Kyle Rowan presented the Phase 2 plan for 200 Raymond Road, regrading both softball fields to a uniform 1.75 percent slope, adding ADA walkways, a 36-seat bleacher, dugouts, fencing and irrigation across roughly 123,000 square feet of disturbance with a 5,514-square-foot net impervious increase. Three Raymond Road abutters, including Gail Kessler Walsh of 236 Raymond Road, said the proposed outfield fence would end decades of neighborhood sledding on the slope; Walsh called it "a beloved sledding hill" the design treats only as "a landscaped slope." Chair Stephen Garvin floated lowering the six-foot fence, leaving a gap beyond the third-base line, or making the fence seasonally removable. Assistant Town Manager Victor Garofalo said the town will not return to the Community Preservation Committee for additional funds, which would force "going back to a town meeting." The board also closed a hearing on a roughly 12-page rewrite of Section 4300 wireless overlay zoning, increasing abutter notice from 300 to 600 feet and requiring a decommissioning bond, and recommended it to the May 4 Annual Town Meeting.