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Neighbors press limits as committee hears tavern, live-music permit for 211 Lafayette
Summary
Neighbors opposed a special use permit for a proposed tavern and live-music venue at 211 Lafayette, citing a years-long pattern of noise, trash and code failures; the applicant offered sound-mitigation measures and the committee moved to send the item without recommendation with proposed conditions and a one-year sunset.
Committee on Legislation members heard extended public testimony April 7 on a special use permit application to reopen a music venue and tavern at 211 Lafayette.
Neighbors Danielle Carlo and Daniel Colleran described a multi-year history of problems with the property under a prior owner, including noise, poor garbage management and what they said were ineffective city inspections. “We had a very difficult relationship with the previous building owner,” Danielle Carlo said, describing children kept awake and a garden where she said she found used needles. Colleran told the…
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