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Zoning Commission Hearing

Apr 12, 2023

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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  • Contact Name:

    Jeffery Hampton

  • Contact Email Address:

    [email protected]

  • Type:

    Zoning Commission

  • Location:

    Virtual Meeting

  • Contact Phone:

    617.918.4308

Description:

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The Boston Zoning Commission typically meets on the second Wednesday of each month to rule on proposed amendments to the Boston Zoning Code. Anyone may petition the Zoning Commission to adopt a zoning change. Typically, the Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA) petitions the Zoning Commission to adopt zoning changes after a public dialogue and approval from the BPDA board.

Zoning Commission hearings are currently being conducted virtually through Zoom. The public can participate in hearings by registering for and attending Zoom meetings and verbally offering public comment. The public can also send written comments by email to [email protected] or by post to 1 City Hall Square, 9th Floor, Boston, MA 02201

Interpretation will be provided in Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Haitian Creole, and Cape Verdean Creole. Additional interpreting services and document translation services are available upon request at no cost to you. Please request interpreting services no later than 5 days before the meeting date. For translation or interpreting services, contact [email protected]

Agenda
9:00 AM Map Amendment Application No. 754
Planned Development Area No. 138
1234 and 1240 Soldiers Field Road, Brighton

The Proposed Project calls for the construction of four new buildings on the Project Site containing in the aggregate, up to 582,000 square feet of gross floor area. The 1240 Site will contain two residential buildings: (i) the Telford Residential Building will be constructed on an approximately 19,330 square foot parcel of land to be contributed by the 1240 Owner and located at the corner of Telford Street and Western Avenue, and this building will contain approximately 72 new affordable units (a mix of rental and for-sale condominium units) as well as approximately 4,000 s.f. of ground floor retail space; and (ii) the approximately 301,000 square foot, 18-story Soldiers Field Road Residential Rental Building (“SFR Residential Rental Building”), which will contain approximately 395 rental apartments, residential amenity spaces, one or more bicycle storage rooms that comply with the City’s current Bicycle Parking Guidelines, and approximately 4,500 s.f. of non-residential space that may house an approximately 200-seat music hall venue with accessory office and rehearsal space, or in the alternative, retail, restaurant and/or other commercial uses that are appropriate for this location. The Telford Residential Building and the SFR Residential Rental Building will share a second floor outdoor terrace as well as an at-grade and underground parking garage with total capacity of approximately 216 vehicles, of which approximately 39 spaces will be reserved to residents of the Telford Residential Building, approximately 157 parking spaces will be reserved for residents of this building, and an additional 20 spaces will be available for use to support the commercial space in both this building and the Telford Residential Building. Both buildings will contain ground floor commercial space and amenities such as bicycle rooms and other residential amenity spaces.  The 1234 Site will contain: (i) an approximately 125,500 square foot, 11-story Western Avenue Hotel, a 195+ key hotel with approximately 3,500 s.f. of ground floor commercial space fronting on Western Avenue, as well as related hotel amenity spaces, including a bicycle storage room that complies with the City’s Bicycle Parking Guidelines, and an amenity terrace for hotel guests. The hotel lobby will face onto a new site drive bisecting the Project Site (“Site Drive”), which will contain a pick-up/drop-off area for hotel guests, and (ii) the SFR Residential Condominium Building, an approximately 77,000 square foot, 10-story residential condominium building containing approximately 76 for-sale residential units as well as related amenity spaces, including a bicycle storage room and a tenth-floor outdoor terrace for residents. These two buildings will share an underground parking garage with a total capacity of approximately 179 vehicles.
9:15 AM THIS HEARING HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE

Map Amendment Application No. 756
First Amendment to Master Plan for Planned Development Area No. 127, Allston Yards
First Amendment to Building A Development Plan within Planned Development Area No. 127, Allston Yards
First Amendment to Building B Development Plan within Planned Development Area No. 127, Allston Yards
First Amendment to Building C Development Plan within Planned Development Area No. 127, Allston Yards
First Amendment to Building D Development Plan within Planned Development Area No. 127, Allston Yards
Development Plan for Building E Development Plan within Planned Development Area No. 127, Allston Yards
9:30 AM Text Amendment Application No. 509
Housing and Jobs Exaction (Linkage)
Article 2, 2A Definitions
Article 80, Development Review and Approval

Said text amendment would : (1) implement an increase, over two years beginning January 1, 2024 in the Housing Exaction and Jobs Contribution Exaction for research lab uses to Twenty Six Dollars and Zero Cents ($26.00) per square foot and Four Dollars and Seventy-Eight Cents ($4.78) per square foot, respectively, for a total of Thirty Dollars and Seventy-Eight Cents ($30.78) per square foot; (2) increase in the Housing Exaction and Jobs Contribution Exaction for other Development Impact Uses to Nineteen Dollars and Thirty-Three Cents ($19.33) per square foot and Three Dollars and Seventy-Six Cents ($3.76) per square foot, respectively, for a total of Twenty-Three Dollars and Nine Cents ($23.09) per square foot; (3) lower the gross floor area trigger and exemption from 100,000 square feet to 50,000 square feet; (4)  change the number of payments to two, made at Building Permit and Certificate of Occupancy; and (5) amend Articles 2 and 2A-Definitions, updating Research Laboratory and related Uses to reflect the proposed changes to Article 80B-7.