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Design Review Board gives feedback on proposed six-unit building at 339 Chestnut Street; will send comments to ZBA
Summary
Applicants presented a proposed six-unit apartment building under a comprehensive-permit process; the DRB offered design feedback on massing, materials, landscaping and trash screening and will forward comments to the Zoning Board of Appeals ahead of an April hearing.
The Needham Design Review Board on March 26 reviewed a proposed six-unit apartment building at 339 Chestnut Street and provided formal design comments to be forwarded to the Zoning Board of Appeals with the town’s departmental review package.
Attorney George Genter Jr. presented the application under a comprehensive-permit review as a local-initiative project, saying the proposal is a partnership with the town and would replace an early-20th-century office building with a new three-story structure containing six rental units, two of which would be designated affordable.
Why it matters: The proposal would add small-scale rental housing and two affordable units on a 6,200-square-foot lot with constrained frontage and limited on-site landscaping. The project is before the Zoning Board of Appeals and will be considered at an upcoming hearing in April.
Key project facts presented by project architect Scott Melcher: -…
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