Developers continue Revere proposal for 195 American Legion Highway; commission asks for 5‑story plan and to return in November

Beals Associates presented the conservation commission on Oct. 7 with a revised Notice of Intent (NOI) for redevelopment at 195 American Legion Highway and requested the commission continue the matter to the November meeting after clarifying the number of stories and filing updates.

Matthew Costa of Beals Associates, representing the applicant, said the project team was seeking to continue the NOI under a new applicant/owner and noted that "the plan that you have in front of you is a 6 story building," while the parties also acknowledged existing approvals for a 5‑story building from city-level bodies. Costa described that the project site lies behind the Amazon facility on American Legion Highway, adjacent to bordering vegetated wetlands and entirely within FEMA coastal storm flowage.

Costa explained the team had performed hydrologic and hydraulic calculations to determine the boundary of bordering land subject to flooding (BLSF) for the site. He said their watershed model used approximately 540 acres of contributing area and a 24‑hour, 7‑inch rainfall event consistent with Wetlands Protection Act guidance, and that their modeling produced a BLSF elevation of 4.23 on the property. Costa said: "...for a 24 hour rain event, which is what, the Wetlands Protection Act, asks you to, use…