The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a proposal to increase the size of an approved condo building at 14 Schuyler St., not because of the merits of the proposal but because of the way it came before the board without a public-comment process on the changes. Read more.
Rendering of smaller Cheney Street apartment building by Icon Architecture.
A non-profit group that originally proposed building 59 affordable and assisted-living apartments for senior citizens and 15 affordable condos on and near Cheney Street in Roxbury has filed revised plans with the BPDA that decrease the number of apartments to 48 and the number of condos to 12. Read more.
Stanley Staco reports on the shootings on Schuyler Street between Elm Hill Avenue and Maple Street. One person was barricaded in a house.
The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corp. says it will soon file plans for 59 apartments aimed at senior citizens and 9 condos - all to be rented or sold as affordable - to replace the long abandoned Grove Hall Motor Mart property on Cheney Street. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a Roxbury man on gun charges Thursday night - after they say officers watched him and a 15-year-old pal from Mattapan walking for several blocks away from Blue Hill Avenue with "their hands tucked into their front waistbands with their heads darting back and forth scanning the area." Read more.
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