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Chestnut Hill commercial-area study: staff delays zoning article, EDAB analysis finds redevelopment at current FAR not viable
Summary
Planning staff will not submit a zoning article for spring town meeting; the Economic Development Advisory Board (EDAB) subcommittee’s financial modeling found existing zoning (FAR 2.5) is unlikely to support the type of redevelopment proposed by City Realty, prompting further work on a draft rezoning framework for fall 2025.
Planning staff updated the Select Board on Feb. 11 about the Chestnut Hill Commercial Area Study and announced they will not submit a zoning warrant article for Spring 2025. Instead staff said they need additional time to refine recommendations and to finish a fiscal-impact model and a transportation scope; the team now targets a Fall 2025 zoning article for phase 1 and a subsequent town-meeting cycle for phase 2.
City Realty — the owner and redeveloper engaged in the study for the large office-park parcel — has submitted several iterations of a redevelopment concept. The most recent iteration in the packet…
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