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ZBA grants permit for 60 Lyman Road house but tightens lighting and landscaping conditions after resident objections
Summary
The Zoning Board of Appeals unanimously approved a special permit for a new single‑family dwelling at 60 Lyman Road but adopted a strengthened exterior‑lighting condition and required counterbalancing landscaping after multiple abutters testified that exterior lighting at other nearby developments by the same builder is causing nuisance and environmental impacts.
The Brookline Zoning Board of Appeals approved a special permit for a new single‑family house at 60 Lyman Road but altered draft conditions to address sustained neighborhood concerns about exterior lighting tied to other projects by the same developer.
Jeffrey Allen (speaker 11), attorney for the applicant, and Michael McKay (speaker 9), the project architect, presented plans showing a large, setback house with a side‑loaded three‑car garage and a porch that projects five feet into the front yard; the project was supported by planning staff and the planning board subject to a landscape plan, tree‑protection compliance, a limit on future basement conversion area…
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