Boxborough Fire Station Committee Reviews Four Site Schemes, Leans Toward Single Story

Fire Station Building Committee · Meeting of June 11, 2026

Boxborough Fire Station Building Committee reviews site schemes and community visioning results, leans single-story. The committee spent the bulk of its June 11 meeting working through four preliminary site layouts for the new fire station at Route 111 and Sarah's Way, with members expressing a preference for single-story construction and improved Route 111 apparatus access, while Context architects Chris Logan and Jeff reported that a June 5 public visioning session showed strong community preference for vernacular New England architecture, gabled rooflines, and local materials. Town Administrator Mike confirmed the Context design contract, approved unanimously by the committee and by a Select Board majority, is awaiting Town Counsel signature before posting, and that the property purchase is expected to close by late July pending a complicated title resolution.

The building program was revised to add two emergency-staffing bunk spaces, bringing the bedroom count to seven, while still targeting a 20,000-square-foot cap. The committee approved minutes from its April 15 and May 28 meetings with amendments and confirmed a second community input session for July 23 at Town Hall.

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• Who Was There
• Organizations And Documents Referenced
• The complete report, 2,773 words

Source: the Fire Station Building Committee meeting of June 11, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.