UpdatedMon, Apr 26, 2021 at 2:37 pm ET
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Resident Ernie Karelas gazes upon what someone wants to make into a two-level home at the end of Montvale Street. (Mike Carraggi/Patch)
MELROSE, MA At the end of Montvale Street, a cramped one-way near Wyoming Cemetery, stands a rock ledge adorning a long slope filled with trees.
The slope is so wide and pronounced that it is under a slope protection ordinance. The real estate listing said it was unbuildable.
Now the man who bought it wants to build on it, and the neighborhood is in an uproar.
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Armando Plato bought the plot early last year for $17,500, records show. Plans show a decidedly modern, two-level, single-family home that starts at street level and eventually hangs over what is now stone.