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Developers cut scale, switch to for-sale condos for two Old Colony Avenue projects; hearing continued
Summary
Applicants for 18–24 & 28 Old Colony Ave. and 38 Old Colony Ave. reduced unit counts, changed the smaller site from affordable apartments to market-rate condominiums, increased on-site parking and paused final civil resubmission pending city flood-study coordination. Planning Board continued the hearings to June 25.
Attorney Edward Fleming, representing Ballston Assets LLC managers Cindy Zhu and David Lee, told the Quincy Planning Board on May 21 that two Old Colony Avenue proposals were reworked following community and board concerns about height, unit counts, parking and local drainage.
The larger site at 18–24 and 28 Old Colony Ave., originally proposed as a six-story, 94-unit rental building with one parking space per unit, has been reduced to a five-story building with 62 for-sale condominium units (54 two-bedrooms and eight one-bedrooms) and a 98-space garage. “We actually exceed the parking requirement,” Fleming said, noting the new parking ratio is about 1.58 spaces per unit, above the Business C zoning minimum of 1.5.
For the smaller site at 38 Old Colony Ave., the project has shifted from 27 affordable rental units to 19 condominium units with 19 on-site…
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