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Planning board approves revised 12‑unit Treetop Investments project at 816–818 Bridal with conditions
Summary
The Chelsea Planning Board voted to approve a scaled‑back residential project at 816–818 Bridal Street, reducing units from 15 to 12 and imposing conditions including a landscape plan, lighting compliant with IDSA standards, drainage and rodent control plans, design review and a required white roof.
The Chelsea Planning Board voted to approve a revised plan for 816–818 Bridal Street, a residential proposal from Treetop Investments, after the developer reduced the project from 15 units to 12 and agreed to several conditions the board required.
The developer’s attorney, David Mindlin, told the board the revised proposal reduces the unit count and changes the unit mix to three one‑bedroom units and nine two‑bedroom units, adds 12 parking spaces, and moves the upper floors back from the property line to increase setbacks. “We were here last month with a proposal to do a 15 unit building…so what we have done…is submitted revised plans,” Mindlin said.
The board framed its vote around site design, public‑space buffering and traffic impacts. Members pressed the applicant on street‑level screening adjacent to an open garage, snow and trash management, and the parking variance’s consequences for resident eligibility for on‑street parking permits. One board member suggested denser plantings or fencing along Broadway to avoid having pedestrians view the underside of the garage; Mindlin said screening could be required as a condition or addressed in the design phase.
The board attached standard planning conditions and several project‑specific requirements before granting the special permit. The conditions read into the record require the petitioner to submit, prior to issuance of a building permit, a landscape plan; a lighting plan with all fixtures compliant with IDSA standards; a rodent control plan; a drainage plan; and the installation of a stop sign and stop line at the exit of the shared driveway. The petitioner must also participate in design review with the Department of Permitting and Land Use Planning and install a white roof. Mindlin and the principal of Treetop said the building will include two affordable units and be fully sprinklered.
Board members said they supported the reduced scale and the additional screening and landscape requirements. The board moved and approved the permit with the listed conditions; members also noted the petitioner will appear at the zoning board hearing on Tuesday, Oct. 14.
The board’s action authorizes demolition of the existing structures on the lot and construction of the new 12‑unit building as described in the approved plan, subject to the conditions and the city’s standard permit review process.
