JFK PLACE - 445 HARVARD STREET
Project Name: JFK Place
- Initial Proposal: 25 units (5 stories) of multifamily rental housing on 10,122 sf lot; one level of retail; one level of below grade parking (20 parking spaces for residential and retail)
- Approved Project: 25 rental units, 1,900 sf retail spaces, 20 parking spaces on ground floor
- ZBA Decision Appealed
- Notice of Project Change (ZBA Public Meeting 4/28/2022)
- Board voted change Insubstantial - Litigation Settled - Modified Decision filed 7/14/2022
- Applicant: 445 Harvard Street, LLC - Shimon Cohen
- Location: 445 Harvard Street
STATUS
Approved with Conditions 12/17/2019 - Modified 7/14/2022 (appeal settled)
- Original Decision filed December 17, 2019
- Notice of Decision
- ZBA Decision Appealed
- 4/28/2022 Notice of Project Change - includes revised ground floor plan
- Modified Decision filed with Town Clerk July 14, 2022 - No appeal period required (Insubstantial change)
Modification 1: Notice of Project Change
- Notice and Plans
- April 28, 2022 at 7 pm - ZBA Public Meeting to determine Substantial or Insubstantial Change
- Board voted Insubstantial Change
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.
ZBA Application - ZBA Public Hearing
Hearings are held in Select Board's Hearing Room, Sixth Floor, Town Hall, at 7 pm unless otherwise noted. See Town Calendar for official notice and agenda topics.
- July 30, 2018: The Applicant submitted ZBA application for a Comprehensive Permit - Application Here (large file) Architectural Plans here
- January 16. 2019: Opening ZBA hearing
- March 6, 2019 - will be continued to April 17, 2019
- May 29, 2019 - public hearing
- July 17, 2019 - public hearing
- Sept. 25, 2019 - public hearing - Continued
- Oct. 23, 2019 - public hearing
- Nov. 13, 2019 - public hearing
- Nov. 25, 2019 - public hearing
- Dec. 12, 2019 - public hearing
SITE ELIGIBILITY STAGE (Prior to ZBA APPLICATION STAGE):
- Site Eligibility Application to MassHousing (PEL) (PDF) - 3.23.18
- Notification Letter to Select Board (PDF) - 4.2.18
- Select Board Response to MassHousing PEL Letter (PDF) - 5.2.18
APPLICATION PLANS AND MATERIALS
OCTOBER 23, 2019 HEARING
I. Applicant Materials
- Design Update - 10.17.2019
- TRAFFIC / Traffic Intersection Analysis - 10.17.2019
- TRAFFIC / Presentation to Transportation Board 10.2.2019
- PARKING / Ground floor plan 9.17.2019
- PARKING / City Lift Stackers
II. Peer Review Reports
- Walker Parking Consultants 9.18.2019
- Environmental Partners Group (Traffic) 7.11.2019
- design peer review
III. Board / Staff Reports
SEPTEMBER 2019
Plans Submitted with ZBA Application:
- Full Comprehensive Permit Application (large file) (PDF)
- Architectural Plans (smaller file) (PDF)
- Environmental Reports
PEER REVIEW DOCUMENTS
- Urban Design
- Transportation/Parking 7.1.19
- Walker Parking Consultants 9.18.2019
- Environmental
LETTERS TO ZBA
- Mark Rosen
- Lee and Marilyn Rosenbaum - June 3, 2019
- David Danesh - June 21, 2019
HEARING TRANSCRIPTS:
- JANUARY 16 HEARING
- APRIL 17 HEARING
- May 29, 2019 Hearing
- July 17, 2019 Hearing
- Oct 13, 2019 Hearing
- Nov. 25, 2019 Hearing
- Dec. 12, 2019 Hearing