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ZBA approves renovation at 568 Merrimack Street with condition to move and screen condensers
Summary
The ZBA approved MFG Ventures' design revisions for 568 Merrimack Street and required the applicant to relocate condensers away from Merrimack Street and screen them with vegetation or fencing as a condition of approval.
The Newburyport Zoning Board of Appeals voted March 10 to approve the continued application for renovations at 568 Merrimack Street, with a condition that mechanical condensers be moved away from Merrimack Street and screened from view.
Applicant representatives described changes to window alignment and elevations that, they said, addressed prior board concerns. During questions, board members asked specifically about condenser placement and suggested screening. One board member motioned to approve the application conditioned on moving the condensers "as far as reasonably possible" from Merrimack Street and screening them with vegetation or a low fence; another member seconded the motion. Multiple members spoke in favor of the aesthetic changes to the elevations before the board voted in the affirmative.
The approval is conditional: the applicant must relocate the condensers and install screening as described. No formal legal or budgetary conditions were attached in the hearing; the board framed the condition as a site-plan/design requirement to be reflected in the final approved drawings.
