A developer wants to build a six-story building with 150 apartments at 717-721 Broadway and 10-24 Spencer Avenue. The Chelsea Planning Board will take up the plan at a public hearing on Tuesday, November 17, at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers on the third floor of City Hall, 500 Broadway.
The applicant is G & G Real Estate Investment. It is asking for major site plan approval, the Planning Board review required for large projects. The hearing notice, posted on the city website October 20, does not describe the design, parking or how many of the units would be affordable. The full application can be read at the City Clerk’s office during regular hours: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Tuesday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Friday, 8 a.m. to noon.
Projects of this size fall under Chelsea’s inclusionary zoning rules, which require affordable units. On Monday the City Council asked the city to reserve 70 percent of those units for Chelsea residents in a new citywide lottery.
Three other hearings are on the calendar in the next few weeks.
Traffic and Parking Commission, November 4
The Traffic and Parking Commission holds a public hearing Wednesday, November 4, at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers. It will also be shown live on Chelsea Community Cable. The city has not yet posted the agenda. In a post this week, the city explained that the commission is the only body that can create, change or remove traffic and parking rules in Chelsea, and that the City Council must approve its decisions. It has five members: a resident, the police chief, the fire chief, the director of public works and the director of housing and community development, or their designees. At its last meeting, on October 6, the commission denied five handicap parking requests and approved a third MBTA bus berth under the Tobin Bridge.
Zoning Board of Appeals, November 10
The Zoning Board of Appeals meets Tuesday, November 10, at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers. David Lamm is asking for a special permit to use the first floor of 212 Arlington Avenue as a special event venue. The notice says the space does not meet the city’s minimum off-street parking requirement, and the request would change the building from one nonconforming use to another.
Tree hearing, November 10
The Department of Public Works will hold a hearing Tuesday, November 10, at 6 p.m. in the auditorium of the Chelsea Public Library, 569 Broadway, on removing a public shade tree: a northern red oak, 6 inches across, at 79 Harvard Street. Anyone who objects must send it in writing to Tree Warden Bladimir Hernandez, at 500 Broadway, Room 310, or [email protected], by noon on November 10, or bring it to the hearing.