60 Studios, 12 Parking Spaces: The Plans for 320 Revere Beach Parkway
Five stories of studios averaging 475 square feet on a lot well under the minimum size, at 210 units per acre in…
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15 Apartments Over an Essex Street Garage, a Third Unit on Washington Avenue and a Sauna: What the Zoning Board Packet Shows
Details from the filings for tonight's cases, a storm drain from Everett under a Lash Street lot, and three projects the board…
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Chelsea Seeks Artists for a Bronze Statue of Boxing Champion John Ruiz; Applications Due November 5
The winning artist can receive up to $160,000 for a life-size bronze of the Chelsea-born champion in John Ruiz Park. Finalists' models…
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Chelsea’s Tracy Nowicki Named a Commonwealth Heroine. Also: Board of Health Seats Open and the City Is Hiring
Nowicki, raised in Chelsea, built 30 years of programs for seniors and the city's first regional warming center. Also: two Board of…
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Voting in Chelsea: Early Voting Starts October 17, Register by October 24, and Everything on Your November 3 Ballot
Early voting hours, the registration and mail-ballot deadlines, the contested races, and what a yes vote on each of the nine statewide…
Continue readingA Broadway Project Asks to Cut Its Affordable Units in Half. Also Before the Zoning Board Tuesday: 60 Units on the Parkway and Walmart’s Depot
816-818 Broadway wants one affordable unit at 80 percent of area median income instead of two deeper-affordability units. Also: 60 units on…
Continue readingChelsea’s Parking Minimum Plan Would Leave New Developments Out of the Resident Sticker Program. Meetings Tonight and October 20
The city now requires 1.5 spaces per unit. Its answers to residents' questions say new buildings would be ineligible for resident permits…
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Chelsea Council Sends Low-Income Solar Deal Back to Committee, 4-3, After Taylor Calls It a Hidden Tax
Councillor Todd Taylor called the state program "probably the most deceitful piece of legislation" he had seen. The city manager said Chelsea's…
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Chelsea Council Backs Encore Strikers, Hears $50,000 Senior Home Repair Plan and Sends $3.2 Million Land Deal to Committee
Seven of 11 councillors attended. They backed the Encore strikers, created an economic development officer post, protected Temple Emmanuel, and postponed three…
Continue readingTranscript: Chelsea City Council Meeting, October 5, 2026
The full meeting, lightly edited, with speakers labeled and a section for each agenda item: the solar agreements, the Encore strike, senior…
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