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ZBA actions at a glance: permit extensions, approvals and continuances
Summary
The Chelsea ZBA approved a one-year extension for 295 Eastern Ave, approved special permits/variances for an Energy Storage project, 218–230 Broadway expansion and 469 Washington Ave subdivision, and continued several items (Clark Ave, Harvard St) to later meetings; several approvals were voice votes with conditions.
At its meeting the Chelsea Zoning Board of Appeals took the following formal actions:
• Case 2022-22 (295 Eastern Ave): Board approved a one-year extension of the special permit to allow the applicant additional time to secure building permits (motion and voice vote).
• Case 2024-09284 (Eastern Ave, Energy Storage LLC): Special permit and variance approved with articulated conditions (final design review, DPW and Fire Department sign-offs, recorded decision and decommissioning plan required).
• Case 2024-14 (218–230 Broadway LLC): Special permit and variances for rear addition and unit-count change approved with conditions including design review, open-space mitigation and historic-commission coordination; petitioner committed six inclusionary units among the new units.
• Case 2024-16 (469 Washington Ave): Subdivision and variances accepted with planning-department conditions and an agreement to memorialize an abutter wall relocation during subdivision review.
• Case 2024-1959 (Clark Ave): Continued to next meeting by motion and voice vote.
• Case 2020-10 (963 Harvard St): Applicant not present; modified application moved to next month by motion and voice vote.
Several other items were presented for preliminary review (Market Basket/MB Spirits at 170 Everett Ave and Sunrise Aftercare ownership transfer) and were scheduled for planning-board or conservation-commission review before returning to the ZBA. Most formal votes were recorded as voice votes in the transcript; individual roll-call tallies were not provided.
