1299 Beacon Street

Project Name: 1299 Beacon Street
Comprehensive Permit (Chapter 40B affordable housing)

STATUS

  • ZBA Approved with Conditions 10/2/2019 
  • Decision filed with Town Clerk 11/7/2019 
  • Notice of Decision mailed to abutters within 300 ft radius 
  • Initial Proposal: 108 units (12 stories) of age-restricted rental housing on 18,632 sf lot; 2 levels of retail; 2 levels of below grade parking (183 parking spaces for residential and retail)
  • Revised Proposal: 74 units (8-10 stories) of age-restricted rental housing; 2 levels of retail 2 levels of below grade parking (99 parking spaces for residential and retail)
  • Revised Proposal (July 10, 2019): 65 units (8-9 stories) of age-restricted rental housing; 2 levels retail; 2 levels below grade parking (57 parking spaces)
  • Revised Proposal (July 15, 2019): 55 units (8-9 stories) of age-restricted rental housing; 2 levels retail; 2 levels below grade parking (57 parking spaces) ZBA APPROVED 10/2/2019

Applicant: Brighton Allston Properties, LLC (Raj Dhanda)
Location: 1299 Beacon Street (between Trader Joe's and Post Office)

Contact the Zoning Board of Appeals or the Planning Department

If you have any questions for staff or comments for the ZBA, please email Senior Planner Maria Morelli at [email protected]. The Planning Department main number is 617-730-2130.

ZBA TIMELINE 

The timeline (PDF) features all stages of the 40B process and indicates the stage of the project at this time.

KEY DATES

NOTE: The official mechanism for notification in accordance with the Open Meeting Law is the Town Calendar not this web page. Visit the Town Calendar for hearing agendas.

Site Eligibility Stage

  • August 16, 2016: The applicant will present the Site Eligibility proposal for the Board of Selectmen. Notice of Hearing (PDF) The Board of Selectmen will draft comments to submit to subsidizing agency and consider public comments. To submit comments directly to MassHousing on site eligibility, please download these instructions to submit comments directly to MassHousing (PDF).
  • September 6, 2016: Board of Selectmen discusses Town's Response to MassHousing (due September 9).
  • January 3, 2016: Board of Selectman discusses Town's Response to MassHousing in regard to REVISED Site Eligibility proposal dated November 4, 2016. See BOS Calendar for agenda.

ZBA Application - ZBA Public Hearing

Hearings are held in Select Board's Hearing Room, Sixth Floor, Town Hall, unless otherwise noted. See Town Calendar.

TRANSCRIPTS are available about two weeks after a hearing. Links to full transcripts are provided at the bottom of this page.

  • March 23, 2018: The Applicant submitted ZBA application for a Comprehensive Permit
  • April 18, 2018: ZBA Public Hearing is opened and continued (no Board Discussion or Testimony)
  • April 25, 2017: Continued to May 9, 2018
  • May 9, 2018: Applicant presents proposal. The ZBA's 40B consultant presents an overview of Chapter 40B. Transcript here. (PDF)
  • May 30, 2018: ZBA Site Visit - Open to public (Because this is not a public hearing, no testimony will be accepted during the site visit.)
  • June 13, 2018: ZBA Hearing / Staff Report / Public Comment
    > NOTE: June 13 hearing is Room 111 first floor of Town Hall and cannot be televised.
  • July 11, 2018: ZBA Hearing. Testimony from Town Depts and traffic/parking peer reviewers)
    >Public comment confined to technical questions for peer reviewers
    Sept 5, 2018: ZBA Hearing. Testimony from design peer reviewer and Town Boards
    > Public comment confined to technical questions for peer reviewer
  • October 17, 2018: CONTINUED TO NOVEMBER 28, 2018
  • November 28, 2018: CONTINUED TO JANUARY 14, 2019
  • January 14, 2019: CONTINUED TO JANUARY 30, 2019
  • January 30, 2019: Architecture 
  • February 13, 2019: Hearing CONTINUED to Feb 27
  • February 27, 2019: CONTINUED 
  • April 3, 2019: CONTINUED TO APRIL 24 (no hearing)
  • April 24, 2019: Traffic / Parking / Site Logistics / Public Safety / Rubbish-Recycling / Geotechnical / Stormwater / Prelim Building Code
  • May 1, 2019: Geotech/Build. Code, Site Circulation/Logistics, Trash, Parking
  • June 3, 2019: Revised plans and peer review
  • July 10, 2019: Parking, geotech, construction management planning
  • July 15, 2019: Response to ZBA charge (parking ratio)
  • September 16, 2019: Will be CONTINUED to September 18 (not hearing on 9/16)
  • September 18 (not 16), 2019: Soil test, Waivers, Conditions
  • October 2, 2019: Conditions
  • Public Hearing scheduled to close (180 days from opening + 274 day extension): October 3, 2019

Presentations

Planning Department: July 11 Design Analysis Report and Presentation - Maria Morelli, Senior Planner

APPLICATION PLANS AND HEARING MATERIALS

October 2, 2019 Hearing

NOTE PUBLIC HEARING CLOSES October 3, 2019. No testimony will be accepted after October 3.

DOCUMENTS REFERENCED IN DECISION - reviewed in prior hearings

September 18 (not 16), 2019 Hearing

1 - Soil Testing

2 - Waivers (Applicant's request for waivers from zoning consistent with the latest plans)

3 - DRAFT Conditions [Procedural History and Findings Only]

JULY 15, 2019 Hearing

JULY 10, 2019 Hearing

Applicant Materials

Peer Review

June 3, 2019 HEARING

Applicant Materials

Peer Review Reports

MAY 1, 2019 HEARING

Applicant Materials

Geotech / Stormwater
Site Circulation / Trash

Peer Review Materials

APRIL 24, 2019 HEARING

Comments from Staff (Public Safety, Transportation, Environmental Health)

Comments from Transportation Board

Peer Review Reports

For February 13, 2019 Hearing (Traffic, Parking, Prelim Building Code)

For January 30, 2019 Hearing (Architecture)

For November 28, 2018 hearing (not held)

Parking

Traffic

Plans Submitted with ZBA Application:

Applicant's response to Application Completeness letter (clarification, outstanding and additional materials)
June 2018

From the Applicant (July 2018)

LETTERS TO THE ZBA

From Staff

From Boards and Commissions

From Peer Reviewers

From the Public

April 2018

May 2018

July 2018

September 2018

Sullivan and Comerford P.C.

December 2018

Gillon Associates on behalf of Roberta Sydney and Kyle Spellman

January 2019

February 2019

March 2019

Sullivan & Comerford for Kyle Spellman and Robert Sydney

April - May - June 2019

For July 10, 2019 Hearing

For September 18, 2019 Hearing

Transcripts

Available within two weeks of hearing.