Last Updated: 13 March 2021
Written by Steve Revilak
The town Zoning Board of Appeals met Thursday, March 11, and held a continued hearing about the permit for Thorndike Place. It could have been the last scheduled hearing for this project, but, given the documents recently recently, the hearing was continued to March 30.
See the summary by Steve Revilak, a board member who provides her personal notes >>
The applicant submitted a letter to MassHousing regarding the project revisions. You can view the letter here under Reference Material titled 'MassHousing Notice' dated March 8, 2021.
From Arlington Land Trust:
The Zoning Board of Appeals has issued a draft decision on the application for a comprehensive permit for Thorndike Place on the Mugar land in East Arlington. The 40-page decision appears to grant a permit for the project as presented at the Feb. 16 hearing: a massive single building of 172 rental units fronting immediately on Dorothy Road. Many terms and conditions are itemized, but significant concerns remain unaddressed.
At the Select Board meeting on March 1, Selectman Steve DeCourcey made a slide presentation about the Mugar/Thorndike Place Comprehensive Permit and the board subsequently voted 5-0 to send additional comments to the Zoning Board of Appeals, following up on the Select Board letter of Feb. 22. The new comments call into question the validity of the project's initial approval by MassHousing.
from the revised Thorndike Place proposalThe current scheme, presented to the ZBA by Oaktree Development on Feb. 16, eliminates the townhouses along Dorothy Road, consolidating the entire project of 172 rental units into one large structure fronting immediately on Dorothy. Removal of the townhouses takes away the only design element that was reasonably compatible with the style and scale of the neighborhood. It also takes away any opportunities for home ownership, leaving only rental units in the remaining four-story structure.
The original 2015 "Project Eligibility Approval" by MassHousing based its findings on the project having a mix of rental and ownership opportunities, and that "the proposed townhouse units on Dorothy Road were designed as a transitional zone between the duplex and single family homes of the existing residential neighborhood to the North and East of the project and the larger proposed apartment building to the South." Both of these key elements have now been removed. The Select Board suggests that without the townhouses the original Eligibility Approval could not have been granted. The Board has urged the ZBA to request that the Applicant submit a new site approval application for review by MassHousing before any further action is taken on the current proposal.
State Sen. Cindy Friedman has also sent a letter to the ZBA reinforcing her opposition to the proposed Thorndike Place project.
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