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Quincy planning board approves 3 Thayer Street site plan with 14 conditions
Summary
The Quincy Planning Board unanimously approved site-plan review and a parking-waiver special permit for a proposed multiunit building at 3 Thayer Street, subject to 14 conditions including transformer screening, construction-management and sewer inspection requirements.
The Quincy Planning Board on Nov. 19 unanimously approved site-plan review and a special permit for a proposed multiunit development at 3 Thayer Street, advancing the project with 14 staff conditions before a building permit can be issued.
Rob Stevens, deputy planning director, recommended approval under Quincy Zoning Ordinance Title 17, citing the submitted site plans and peer-review comments. "The department recommends the board approve site plan review under Quincy Zoning Ordinance Title 17 and special permit under section 9.5.1.17, subject to the below listed special and general conditions," Stevens said.
Attorney Edward Fleming, representing applicant Boston Properties, told the board the team had addressed many peer-review and city-department comments but remains finalizing access and circulation details because nearby Bridge Street becomes a one-way. Fleming said the applicant will prepare a traffic circulation plan and coordinate with Interfaith Social Services and the city's traffic engineer. "We're very confident that this much smaller project of 8 units is not gonna be impacted," Fleming said, and added the circulation plan will be included in condominium documents so future residents understand local traffic patterns.
The conditions read into the record require, among other items: obtaining any necessary variances or permits from the Zoning Board of Appeal; a construction management plan addressing staging and traffic impacts; Department of Public Works approvals for any work in the right-of-way and restoration of new sidewalks; additional soil and water-table testing and, if necessary, stormwater revisions submitted to DPW; drain and water-flow tests with the city's water department; pre- and post-development televised sewer inspections; a recorded operation-and-maintenance plan for stormwater systems at the Norfolk County Registry of Deeds prior to occupancy; a pre-demolition hazardous-materials survey with Quincy Health Department consultation; a written rodent-control plan and a dust-control plan submitted to the Health Department; compliance with the City of Quincy Tree Ordinance; and a modified landscape plan to screen any surface-mounted transformer pad or documentation that the transformer will be pole-mounted following National Grid approval.
Board members had pressed the applicant on where a transformer pad would be sited and whether screening or relocation was feasible. Stevens said staff prefers a screened pad at the corner if a pad-mounted transformer is required, or written confirmation from National Grid that a pole-mounted transformer will be used to neutralize the screening condition.
A board member moved to "move this project forward with the fourteenth conditions," the motion was seconded and passed unanimously.
Next steps: the applicant must satisfy the listed conditions and obtain required DPW and other department approvals before a building permit will be issued. The recorded operation-and-maintenance plan for stormwater will be required at the Norfolk County Registry of Deeds prior to issuance of an occupancy permit.
