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Watertown, MA
Planning Board and Zoning Board Date of Report: 10/12/2023
Recently Submitted Applications
Case # Street Name Street # Project Description Status Hearing Date
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,
residential, 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
PB
8/9,
9/13, 10/11,
and continued
to 11/8/2023
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.
Pending
PB
9/13, 10/11,
continued to
11/8/2023
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
Pending
PB
9/13, 10/11,
and continued
to 11/8/2023
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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.
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
ZBA
10/25/2023
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.
Pending
PB/ZBA Continued to
11/29 PB
meeting and
scheduled for
8/23, 9/27,
10/25/2023
ZBA-2023-09
Stoneleigh Rd
94
Special Permit Finding to allow the construction of
a full second story addition above an existing one-
story single-family dwelling within non-conforming
side yard setbacks.
Pending
ZBA
10/25/2023
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Approved/Denied Applications
Case # Street Name Street
#
Project Description Status Hearing Date
ZBA-2023-08
Palfrey St
200
Variance to allow the southwesterly side yard
setback to be decreased along the length of the
building with a varied setback (9.1 to 7.1 feet front
to rear), where 10’ is required because of
conflicting survey at completion of the project.
Granted
ZBA
9/27/2023
ZBA-2023-10
Acton St 221 Special Permit Finding to allow a full second story, a half story attic and new roof within existing non-
conforming front and rear yard setbacks.
Pending ZBA
10/25/2023
ZBA-2023-11
Boyd St
9-11
Appeal to the ZEO determination that the
conversion of a portion of a mixed-use site for the
proposed daycare project requires site plan review approval by the Planning Board prior to a building
permit being issued.
Pending
ZBA 10/25/2023