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Zoning variance for rear deck at 45 Cervantes upheld after divided vote
Summary
The Board of Appeals upheld a zoning administrator decision granting a rear-deck variance at 45 Cervantes Boulevard after neighbors opposed the project and the applicant reduced the deck size; the board voted and recorded a 2–3 result but noted it lacked four votes to overturn departmental action, so the variance stands.
The board on July 29 upheld a zoning administrator’s grant of a rear-yard variance at 45 Cervantes Boulevard that allows a deck and exit stairs, after neighbors objected that the deck would intrude on mid-block open space and that claimed lead contamination — now cleared by public-health records — had been used to justify the variance.
Neighbor Ronald (Ron) Petocchio opposed the variance, saying lead-abatement documentation from the Department of Public Health showed…
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