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Neighbors raise traffic and density concerns as planning board recommends town-meeting adoption of 888 Great Plain Avenue zoning petition
Summary
An attorney for the 888 Great Plain Avenue petitioner described a mixed-use concept (about 26 apartments, three retail spaces, 43 underground parking spaces) and a fiscal-impact estimate of roughly $67,000 annual net revenue. After public comment and board debate about affordable housing commitments, the planning board recommended adoption of the citizen petition to Town Meeting.
The Needham Planning Board recommended Town Meeting adoption of a citizen-submitted zoning petition for 888 Great Plain Avenue after a presentation by the petitioner's attorney and an extended public-comment period.
Attorney George Shunta Jr. told the board the 23,111-square-foot property in the single-residence B (SRB) district sits adjacent to the Center Business District and the Needham Center Overlay. He described a conceptual 3-plus-1–story mixed-use building with three ground-floor retail spaces and roughly 26 residential units above (with about four first-floor residential units in the rear), plus an underground parking garage with about 43 spaces. Shunta said the proponent commissioned a fiscal-impact analysis that "this project would likely generate an excess of $67,000 on an annual basis," a…
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