Extension of Field Pond Road Required

Field Pond Road will become a looped road, with two entrances on Fiske Mill Road, under a proposed expansion of the suburban neighborhood.

The Milford Planning Board told the developer that to add 12 houses to the existing neighborhood, an extension of the current dead-end would be required, providing two access points for emergency services.

The road now ends in a cul-de-sac, and its length is seven times what is now allowed for cul-de-sacs, said Larry Dunkin, the Milford town planner, in a memo to the Planning Board.

According to a topographical map, the proposed road extension would swing around Little Field Pond, and connect to Fiske Mill Road before Fiske Mill Pond. The new house lots would back up on the northern side of Field Pond Road to existing house lots on Whittier and Littlefield roads.

The additional development will come in two phases: the first six lots, followed by the final six. The developer wanted the road to be continued out to Fiske Mill Road as the third phase, but several Planning Board members said they wouldn't consider it, explaining that would provide the town no assurance the looped road would be completed.

"We're held hostage to that," said Planning Board member Joseph Calagione. "It's way too long a dead-end as is."

The developer can begin constructing the houses before the road is extended, but no occupancy permit will be granted until the road is completed.

The land is owned by Elaine M. Connearney of Hopkinton.

In the future, another large tract of land off Field Pond Road also will be developed, as a "Planned Residential Development," said Robert Poxon, the project engineer for Guerriere & Halnon.