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Watertown, MA
Planning Board and Zoning Board Date of Report: 11/6/2023
Recently Submitted Applications
Case # Street Name Street # Project Description Status Hearing
Date
PB-2023-05
Boyd St
9, 11, &
13
Site Plan Review Approval for the conversion to a
daycare use of the industrial portion of a mixed-
use and nonconforming building and site,
maintaining the existing residential on the second
floor (other portions of the building are not
included).
Submitted
PB
12/13/2023
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,
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
Continued
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
Pending
PB
Requested
Continuance
to
01/10/2024
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Approved/Denied Applications
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
Granted
ZBA
10/25/2023
connections from Pleasant St to the City’s recently
acquired ‘Walker Pond’ property.
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.
Pending
PB
9/13, 10/11,
and
continued to
11/8/2023
Requested
Continuance
to 12/13/23
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
Scheduled
11/8 PB
meeting and
for ZBA
11/29/2023
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
Continued
to ZBA
11/29/2023
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St.) into a new mixed-use development. The
project will include about 7,000 s.f. of first floor
commercial/retail space along Main Street, 137
rental units and 5 townhouse units (within the
existing brick rowhouse building) and there would
be a two level 131 parking space garage with 1
surface parking space.
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.
Granted
ZBA
10/25/2023
ZBA-2023-11
Boyd St
9-11 &
13
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.
Denied
ZBA
10/25/2023