Last week’s decision from the Massachusetts Appeals Court was hailed by community advocates as a crucial victory in the fight to keep Chinatown’s row house district one of the last untouched corners of a neighborhood that, like so many other pockets of Boston, has been roiled by gentrification safe and affordable.
Where the Boston zoning board granted a conditional use permit authorizing the conversion of a two-unit rowhouse to a five-unit residential dwelling located in the city’s Chinatown zoning district and the groundwater conservation overlay district, a Superior Court judgment vacating the permit should be upheld because the judge correctly concluded that the proposed project did