Parekh v. United Parcel Service

The plaintiff has appealed the approval of two special permits by the Planning Board for the Town of Chelmsford, whereby Mascester Co., Inc. and United Parcel Service (“UPS”) were permitted to increase the area of the parking lot on an eighty-three-acre parcel of land, where UPS operates a major tractor terminal. UPS’s single-story building houses eight hundred separate conveyer belts for the transportation of UPS’s packages throughout the building to and from tractor trailer loading bays at the facility. At present, the facility employs about 1700 people working four shifts, resulting in…