Lenox Planning Board Continues Cross-Town-Line Form A, Seeks Counsel on Frontage

Planning Board · Meeting of July 21, 2026

Lenox Planning Board continues a cross-town-line lot-split application after frontage questions and application errors surface. The board voted unanimously to defer action on a Form A submitted by surveyor Mike Parsons of Kelly Granger and Parsons Surveyors on behalf of property owners Michael Lynch and Susan Baker, who seek to carve out a one-acre lot on Hawthorne Street that sits 0.65 acres in Lenox and 0.35 acres in Stockbridge. The application listed a wrong street name and an outdated assessor's map reference — map 6, parcel 24 instead of the correct map 203, lot 79 — requiring the applicant's in-person initials before the board can act.

The deeper obstacle is that all 174 feet of road frontage lie in Stockbridge, where the R4 district requires 300 feet; Lenox requires only 150 feet but has none within its own boundary. Chair Tom Delasco said the board will consult town counsel on whether Lenox's split-town zoning bylaw paragraph allows Stockbridge frontage to satisfy Lenox's requirement. The matter is continued to the August 4 Planning Board meeting.

In the full story:

• Background and stakes
• The question before the board
• Application errors requiring correction
• Substantive content
• The deliberation
• Procedural steps and outcome
• The complete report — 1,761 words

Source: the Planning Board meeting of July 21, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.