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Watertown, MA
Planning Board and Zoning Board Date of Report: 05/09/2023
Recently Submitted Applications
Case # Street Name Street # Project Description Status Hearing
Date
PB-2023-01
Arsenal St
550
Master Plan Special Permit with Site Plan Review for the
Watertown Mall Transformation Project (parcels of land
including 446, 458, 500 and 550 Arsenal St). The new mixed-
use redevelopment, carried out in phases, will include
laboratory/R & D, retail, office, commercial and amenity space
within 8 buildings, with supporting structured and surface
parking. Petitioner proposes to replace gross floor area of
approximately 415,000 square feet in existing buildings with
approximately 974,000 square feet in new buildings while
increasing open space and making site and public realm
improvements.
Submitted
TBD
ZBA-2023-05
Arsenal Way
480
Special Permit/Site Plan Review and Amendment (#01-325P)
to allow a portion of the existing parking to be replaced with a
5 to 6 level parking garage that will support the parking needs
of the existing office/lab R&D building on site and the
proposed Watertown Mall Transformation Project. The site
changes also include updated landscape and pathway
connections.
Submitted
TBD
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Pending Applications
Approved Applications
Case # Street Name Street
#
Project Description Status Hearing
Date
ZBA-2023-01 Westminster Av 212 Special Permit Finding to add a second-floor bathroom dormer
within pre-existing non-conforming side setback.
Approved 4/26/2023
Case # Street Name Street # Project Description Status Hearing
Date
ZBA-2023-02
Main St. (and 2-10
Cross St. and 53
Pleasant St.)
104-126
Special Permit with Site Plan Review to redevelop five lots
(including the Salusti Building, post office, and adjacent one-
story retail building on Main Street, reuse of the brick row
houses on Cross St, and the parking lot and a two-family on
Pleasant St.) into a new mixed-use development. The project
will include about 6,000 s.f. of first floor commercial/retail
space along Main Street, 143 apartment units and 5
townhome units (within the existing brick rowhouse building)
and there would be a two level 154 parking space garage with
2 handicap surface parking spaces.
Pending
Scheduled
5/24/2023 at
ZBA
ZBA-2023-03
School St.
90
Special Permit and Special Permit Finding to construct a
dormer on the third floor, increasing pre-existing non-
conforming half-story, and to convert the existing two-family
to a three-family by converting the basement living space to a
third unit in the Neighborhood Business District.
Pending
5/24/2023
ZBA-2023-04
Bigelow Av
61
Appeal ZEO determination made to deny a request to
demolish the existing structure and issue a building permit for
a steel frame structure without the provision of additional
details or plan, to be used for the previous use of Light
Industry.
Pending
5/24/2023