04-24-2023, 09:34 PM
(04-24-2023, 09:18 PM)panamaniac Wrote:(04-24-2023, 08:25 PM)ZEBuilder Wrote: The OPA and ZBA were approved for this development unanimously tonight. Miraculously Chapman even voted in favour of it even though she didn't think it was compatible with the surronding low rise. She also was complaining about traffic but at the end of the comments she said that since it is within a MTSA it might as well be built without parking that way there would be less height.
The only thing that will be preventing this from getting started right away is a holding provision that is now applied to the site requiring a noise study for the region and complete site remediation.
Less height because podium parking assumed (no watertable issues here)?
Why site remediation - the area was farmland before becoming residential?
Chapman was just saying less height because she wanted to appease all of the NIMBYs. Her logic was basically if we get rid of the parking we can spread the residential units throught the podium (only 300 or so parking units in the podium the rest is below ground) so we can have shorter buildings. We can only remove parking because it's next to the ION station, yet a few minutes before she was complaining about traffic so I don't really know what she was trying to say.
Site remediation would presumably be because of Delta Elevators and the other industrial uses of the surronding sites. Reading through the ESA (environmental site assesment) it says the following "The chemical test results for the analysed soil samples identified petroleum hydrocarbon impacts in the native material" so presumable whatever was there at some point has had some chemicals leached into the soil, hence the need to remediate it.