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Laurel Beach neighbors, applicants clash over large home at 171 Third Avenue; hearing continued
Summary
A heated public hearing over proposed variances for a teardown-and-rebuild at 171 Third Avenue in Milford—Laurel Beach drew dozens of residents and planning debate; the Zoning Board kept the public hearing open to July so applicants and neighbors can negotiate plan changes.
The Zoning Board of Appeals on June 10 kept open the public hearing on a multi-variance application to demolish and replace the house at 171 Third Avenue in the Laurel Beach neighborhood, after more than two hours of testimony for and against the project.
Attorney Thomas Lynch, representing owners Timothy and Danielle Romano, said the property is a preexisting nonconforming lot and that any new house would require variances. Lynch told the board the proposed two-story Colonial with roughly "4,200 square feet" would not "appreciably increase" the site—s nonconformities and that the applicants had made concessions after meetings with the Laurel Beach…
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