Developer adds direct connection between proposed Audubon Circle apartment building and stop on the D Line

A developer that proposed an apartment building on 142-146 St. Mary's Street, on the Boston side of the border with Brookline last year has submitted new plans that call for a slightly smaller building, but one with a pedestrian path running from the Fenway stop on the Green Line on one side of the building to Medfield Street on the other.

In a new filing with the Boston Planning Department, Allen Associates Properties of Newton says it wants to build a six-story building with 85 apartments, across St. Mary's from a residential building it owns on the Brookline side of the street.

The new proposal also cuts the number of parking spaces in a garage from 105 to 82 - with another 18 spaces in a lot. But some 75 of the spaces will be reserved for residents of the Brookline building. Putting up the new Boston building will include razing an existing parking garage on the site.

The units will be split between 12 studios, 52 one-bedroom apartments and 21 two-bedroom apartments. Some 13 units will be rented as affordable, to people making up to between 50% and 100% of the Boston area median income. That's 15.3% of the total units - more than the 13% required when the plans were first filed, but less than the 17% that would have been required had the plans been submitted after Oct. 1 of this year.

Allen hopes to begin two years of construction next fall.

142-146 St. Mary's St. filings and meeting schedule.