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Watertown, MA
Planning Board and Zoning Board Date of Report: 08/14/2023
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
8/23/2023
PB-2023-03
Manley Way
(Aka
20 Seyon St)
10-30
Special Permit with Site Plan Review for the reuse of a
95,000 SF light industrial building, last used for light
industrial/warehouse use and indoor recreation. The
project includes repurposing the existing structure for
lab/R&D/non-nuisance manufacturing use. Site
improvements include new landscaping, new
stormwater retention system and connections from
Pleasant St to the City’s recently acquired ‘Walker
Pond’ property.
Submitted
9/13/2023
PB-2023-04
Pleasant St
Rosedale Rd
Acton St
313
&275
84-86
60
Special Permit with Site Plan Review to redevelop the
site into a life science campus consisting of new
construction of a four story 133,324 GFA lab/R
&D/Office building (including below -grade parking), a
separate two story 9,847 GFA retail building attached
to an adjacent six level above-ground parking
structure, an outdoor pavilion, as well as existing four
story 53,183 GFA Lab/R & D/Office building along
Pleasant St and surface parking space shared on a 5
acre site. Proposed Site improvements include
enhanced public and open space, improved landscape
connections to surrounding neighborhoods and
Charles River Greenway, and stormwater
management systems.
Submitted
9/13/2023
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Department of Community Development and Planning for any questions at (617) 972-6427.
ZBA-2023-08
Palfrey St
200
Variance to allow for reduction in right side setback
due to error in surveyor mark out discovered after
construction of ZBA approved project (ZBA-2021-10
SP/SPF).
Submitted
9/27/2023
Pending 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.
Pending
Continued
9/13/2023
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 8/23/23
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Department of Community Development and Planning for any questions at (617) 972-6427.
Approved/Denied Applications
Case # Street Name Street
#
Project Description Status Hearing Date
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.
Approved
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.
Approved
7/26/2023