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Norwood planning board denies site plan for 55 Lenox over parking, approves stormwater special permit
Summary
After heated debate about mechanized car stackers and whether they satisfy Norwood’s MBTA-overlay parking rules, the planning board denied site-plan approval for a proposed 96-unit project at 55 Lenox Street (4–1) but separately approved a stormwater-related special permit (3–2).
The Town of Norwood Planning Board voted 4–1 to deny site-plan approval for a proposed 96‑unit development at 55 Lenox Street, citing concerns that the applicant’s reliance on mechanized car stackers did not demonstrate safe, reliable circulation and could cause spillover parking in nearby streets. The same board later approved, by a 3–2 vote, a separate special permit that would have granted a bonus floor tied to stormwater improvements.
The proposal, filed under Norwood’s MBTA Community Multifamily Overlay District, would put 96 units on roughly 0.85 acres (about 112 units per acre), far denser than two prior local MBTA projects the board compared: one with 145 units on 2.7 acres (~53 units/acre) and another at 132 units on 2.44 acres (~54 units/acre).…
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