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Falmouth ZBA pauses 17 Walker project after peer-review flags stormwater and parking details
Summary
The Zoning Board of Appeals continued the 17 Walker 40B application after a peer-review engineer urged clarifications on stormwater routing, garage drainage separation and constrained parking circulation; the board scheduled an architectural peer review for Sept. 12 and continued the full case to Oct. 17.
The Town of Falmouth Zoning Board of Appeals continued its review of a proposed 11-unit downtown apartment project at 17 Walker after peer-review engineers identified technical items that need further work.
Matt Cody of Bealson Thomas, the board's peer-review engineer, told the board he issued a letter on Aug. 20 and had just received the applicant's response. He said the applicant is seeking common downtown waivers — including lot width, building coverage, setbacks and a one-foot height waiver for an elevator — and that those dimensional waivers were not immediately concerning given the downtown context. "We issued our letter August 20. We did receive a response from the applicant yesterday," Cody said.
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