Health Club Draws Unexpected Opposition

Unexpected abutter opposition and low board turnout caused an applicant for a health club in Londonderry to request for a continuation of a Zoning Board of Adjustment case until next month.

L&L Realty Of New England, LLC was requesting a variance to allow a health club in the town's Industrial II district. The club would be located at 13 Delta Drive, Unit 9.

With just three members of the ZBA in attendance and the vote to allow the variance still needing three 'yes' votes, the case was moved.

A letter of opposition from Delta Business Center Condominium Association was also read, which said that the executive board is unanimously against the granting of that unit.

In the letter, the board expressed a problem with there only being 10 parking spaces assigned to that unit, not enough for a health club as they said, and the fact that 53-foot tractor trailers make deliveries to that area.

"Delivery trucks at best would have difficulty getting into the loading and unloading doors," the letter read.

John Splendore, the attorney representing Fortitude Fitness owner Todd Ford, said that it was the first they had heard of the letter, and that his client was told there would not be any issue any of the abutters or the other condiminium owners.