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Cambridge BZA grants variance for Royal Sonesta hotel signage, 4–1
Summary
The Board of Zoning Appeals granted a variance allowing the Royal Sonesta hotel to retain and slightly reduce existing oversized rooftop signage; board members cited building orientation and waterfront constraints as the claimed hardship. The vote was 4 in favor, 1 opposed (Chair Monteverdi).
The Cambridge Board of Zoning Appeals voted on Dec. 11 to grant a variance allowing revised rooftop signage for the Royal Sonesta hotel, despite zoning limits on total sign area.
Carolyn Parker, representing the Royal Sonesta, told the board the hotel currently has two signs of about 587.9 square feet each and that the proposed revisions would reduce the overall signage area by roughly 21 percent. "We are reducing the overall…
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