The Brockton Conservation Commission on Wednesday voted to send the notice of intent for 31 Otis Street to a third-party peer reviewer and to continue the hearing to its Oct. 15 meeting after staff said MassDEP had issued technical comments and requested additional cut-and-fill and compensatory-storage information.

Nate DaSilva, speaking for Farland Corp and applicant Alvaro Gomez, presented a plan for a three-family dwelling on a roughly 15,000-square-foot lot intersected by Salisbury Brook. DaSilva described demolition and a foundation already on site and showed plans that place parking partially within the 25-foot riverfront buffer.

Agent Kyle Holden summarized MassDEP’s technical comments, which require a narrative addressing performance standards in riverfront and bordering-land-to-flooding areas and cut/fill tables showing compensatory storage at each elevation where flood storage is lost. Holden said the site is “constrained and complicated” with riverfront, bordering lands, and a poured foundation in place, and recommended a peer review. He also noted that although state wetland law typically exempts small developments from stormwater review, Brockton’s local stormwater ordinance can require review of a three-family project; the city’s stormwater authority is not fully functional, so Holden encouraged the applicant to request that the commission include stormwater in the peer review to “streamline the process.”

Commissioners voted to send the filing to peer review with the condition that the review start only after the applicant submits the DEP‑requested documentation. The commission also agreed, at the applicant’s request, to include stormwater compliance as part of the peer review. The hearing was continued to Oct. 15.