HomeMy Public PortalAbout06.June 2023 Pending Project Report (PDF)Click on the Case # link to see more detailed information and any associated documents. Please contact the
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Watertown, MA
Planning Board and Zoning Board Date of Report: 06/13/2023
Recently Submitted Applications
Case # Street Name Street # Project Description Status Hearing Date
ZBA-2023-05
Arsenal Way
480
Special Permit/Site Plan Review and Amendment (#01-32SP) 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/Incomplete
TBD
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/Incomplete
TBD
PB-2023-02
Mt Auburn St
&
Grove St
705
64
Two Sign Special Permits to create a campus signage
master plan for this combined 12.5+ acre campus with
appropriate and consistent identification, wayfinding,
and directional signage.
Submitted
7/12/2023
ZBA-2023-06
Brookline St
30
Special Permit Finding to increase roof height on a
portion of the existing structure for construction of a
bedroom and full bath within non-conforming front
and rear yard setbacks.
Submitted
7/26/2023
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Pending Applications
Approved/Denied Applications
Case # Street Name Street
#
Project Description Status Hearing
Date
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.
Approved
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.
Denied
5/24/2023
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
Continued
ZBA
6/28/23