Last evening, the five members of the Zoning Board of Appeals present (Lisa Kenneally, David Giroux, Kathy Harter, Mary Ellen Pierro, Myron Polenberg) voted unanimously to grant the amended use variance needed by the Casetta Group to redevelop 601 Union Street as a 40-room boutique hotel. The image below is from the Casetta website.
The project now goes before the Planning Board for site plan approval and the Historic Preservation Commission for a certificate of appropriateness. In March, the HPC heard an initial presentation of the project and determined they were ready to schedule a public hearing. To Gossips knowledge, that hearing never happened. It will be interesting to see how the HPC deals with the concerns of the owner of 611 Union Street that the additional hotel rooms and other amenities, to be constructed behind the municipal parking lot and his property, will negatively impact his historic house.
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