Planning board grants waivers for 12 Station Street project, continues final decision to Jan. 7

The Middleborough Planning Board on Dec. 30 granted several zoning waivers for a proposed 40-unit apartment project at 12 Station Street, known as John Glass Square, but continued the matter to Jan. 7 to allow counsel and peer-review comments to be addressed.

The applicant’s representative asked the board to extend the decision deadline from Jan. 2 to Jan. 17 and to approve multiple waivers from the town zoning bylaw. The board voted unanimously to extend the decision filing period and to grant waivers that would allow multifamily apartments in the John Glass Square subdistrict, permit the building to exceed the 35-foot height limit (applicant estimated a maximum height of about 44–46 feet), and relax frontage, front-setback and facade-massing standards.

The applicant requested density relief from the bylaw’s 12 units per acre to a proposed 17 units per acre for a 40-unit scheme; the representative told the board…