The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved a developer's plans to rehab the former St. Matthew convent at 43-45 Stanton St. in Dorchester and add a four-story addition in its rear to create 14 condos. Two of the units in the new structure, proposed by Ricky Beliveau's Volnay Capital, would be sold as affordable. The proposal originally went before the board last November,
When residents said Onyx Management and Development's plans for six condos in three attached buildings at 45 Milton Ave. in Dorchester would lead to parking woes on the street, the company responded with a proposal for nine parking spaces in a backyard that would be taken up almost entirely by a driveway and the spaces, with room for just three or four potted shrubs. The
Matthew Malloy of Ocean Street in Dorchester really, really wants to buy an electric vehicle. But he doesn't have a driveway and ISD has warned him that if he tries to run an extension cord over the sidewalk to a car parked at the curb, he'd get fined. Malloy found relief Tuesday at a hearing of the Zoning Board of Appeal, which unanimously gave him permission to build a sort
Mayor Michelle Wu today celebrated the confirmation by the Boston City Council of 8 new appointees to the Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA), bringing the new total
A slate of Mayor Michelle Wu’s nominees for the Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA), a powerful panel, received approval from the City Council on Wednesday. A critic of the ZBA on the mayoral campaign trail and arguing the entity needs reform, Wu put forward her slate in September, proposing to reappoint just three people who served under previous administrations. The ZBA has 14