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Court of Tanton, fassar4nsrtts 
ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS 
MEMORIAL HALL 
801 WASHINGTON STREET 
CANTON, MA 02021 
TEL: (781) 575-6589 FAX: (781) 575-6574 
Minutes of the meeting of May 10, 2018 
PRESENT: Gregory L. Pando, Acting Chairman 
Gary E. Vinciguerra 
John R. McCourt 
Charles J. Armando 
Also Present: Tamra Stock, Recording Secretary 
Not Present: Paul B. Carroll, Chairman 
Meeting Held in the Salah Hearing Room, 2nd floor, 801 Washington Street, Canton, MA 
Acting Chairman Pando opened the meeting at 7:00 pm and reads the agenda. 
Canton Public Schools/Canton Little League/Canton Parks and Recreation — 900 
Washington Street — 23 -18 -Mod SPA -SP -V 
Chairman Pando opens the hearing and reads the petition. Chairman Pando states the 
application has been filled out properly and the Board has received a certified list of 
abutters from the Board of Assessor's. Mr. Michael Loughran explains he is wearing two 
hats tonight for this hearing. He is the Vice Chair for the School Committee and also the 
Treasurer for Canton Little League. Mr. Loughran stated in 2002 he and another parent 
started a girl's fast pitch softball program. The town didn't offer fast pitch until you got to 
high school. In 2012 they put this under the Canton Little League charter. In the first year 
they had 147 players in the spring. Since then they have added spring, summer, and fall 
travel teams. They even had some winter leagues. They have also installed a scoreboard at 
the Walsh field. Mr. Loughran states right now for the 2019 spring program they have 500 
registrations. He states it is a growing program. Mr. Loughran states in the town there are 7 
baseball fields in which 5 of them have lighting. There are also 3 softball fields and none 
of them have lights. There are not enough fields for the amount of practices and games 
they need to have. Mr. Loughran states with the recent time change for Canton High 
School it pushes the sports programs back and they are starting games later which pushes 
recreation and youth sports back as well. Right now games are not starting until roughly 
6:30PM and they are not able to finish the games due to running out of daylight. This 
request for field lights will allow the kids to actually finish the games. These lights would 
also benefit the ladies softball program run by the Canton Recreation Department and also 
the high school teams. They would be able to offer night games. Mr. Loughran explains 
from his years of coaching he knows every kid looks forward to playing under the lights. 
Right now they try to schedule some at the baseball fields. This is not ideal due to different 
dimensions for the bases and the mound as well as having grass infields. Mr. Loughran 
states right now they need 5 or 6 poles to light Walsh field but they also wanted to look 
into the future in case they wanted to add lights to Gibson field which is the High School 
baseball field. So two of the poles will be positioned to be able to light both fields. They 
are looking into some LED lighting. Mr. Barry Nectow is looking into some rebates.