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Owner of 226 Amherst Street given staff support to pursue administrative approval to rebuild collapsed stone wall
Summary
After a section of a stone retaining wall at 226 Amherst Street collapsed, the board agreed staff could process an administrative application for like-for-like reconstruction using original stone, including weep holes and tie-backs if needed.
A section of a historic stone retaining wall at 226 Amherst Street collapsed in late May, and the Board of Architectural Review on June 5 authorized staff to work with the owner, identified in the meeting as Mr. Sember, on an administrative application to rebuild the wall using the original stones and like-for-like methods.
The owner described discovering the collapse Friday evening after hearing a noise and said the wall—s age is uncertain; he told the board it may be "well over a hundred years" though he also used earlier phrasing that suggested…
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