Special Meeting on November 28, 2022 at 6: 00 P.M, Everett City Hall, 3rd Floor in the George Keverian Hearing Room.

– LEGAL NOTICE –

CITY OF EVERETT ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS

484 BROADWAY, ROOM 24 EVERETT, MASSACHUSETTS 02149

This notice is to inform you that, the matter referenced below, originally scheduled to be heard on November 21, 2022, will instead be heard at a Special Meeting on November 28, 2022 at 6: 00 P.M, Everett City Hall, 3rd Floor in the George Keverian Hearing Room. All interested parties may attend and opinions will be heard regarding the following petition. The matter will be called at the Board’s November 21, 2022 meeting solely for the purposed of immediately continuing the matter to November 28, 2022. No testimony or evidence will be taken in this matter at the November 21, 2022 meeting.

The applicant seeks to demolish the existing structure and construct a Five (5) Story Sixty (60) foot high 84-unit apartment building

Reason for Denial:

Permit was denied in accordance to the City of Everett Zoning Ordinance Appendix A as follows:

Violations:

• The Front Yard in the Apartment District on the provided plot plan indicates a distant of Seven (7) feet with only Six (6) of landscaping
• The Front Yard in the Business District of the provided plot plan indicates a distance of Seven (7) Feet and only Six (6) feet of landscaping
• The Rear Yard in the Business District on the provided plot plan indicates a Seven (7) foot rear yard
• The Corner Lot (at Second and Revere Streets) is only Three (3) feet
• As part of the development is located in an Apartment District (10 units) the minimum lot requirement is 14,000 square feet where only 3,953 square feet exist. • The Floor Area Ratio is shown to be 3.6
• The proposed building number of 5 stories are not compliant in the Apartment or Business Districts.
• There are 4 (sets) of Tandem parking spaces and approximately 11 “compact” spaces in the parking area indicated on the plans submitted.
• The Parking is non-compliant and be handled by the TDM

Zoning:

• Section 5 Apartment District: Line 5. Front Yard:
a. Twenty (20) feet minimum of which ten (10) feet shall be used for landscaping.

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Section 6 Business District: 4. Front Yard:
None required, except when used for residential purposes there shall be a ten (10) foot minimum of which no less than five (5) feet shall be used for landscaping.
(Ord. of 6-29-87)
Section 6 Business District Rear Yard: Line 6. Rear Yard:
Twenty-five (25) feet minimum unless the lot extends from one (1) street to another street, in which case no rear yard is required, except for any residential use which shall require a ten foot minimum. (Ord. of 6-29-87)
Section 5 Apartment District B. Dimensional Requirements:
b. Four thousand (4,000) square feet plus one thousand (1,000) square feet per unit up to a total of ten (10) units, then five hundred (500) square feet per unit for all units in excess of ten (10) units. (Ord. of 6-29-87)
Section 5 Apartment District line 4. Height:
Four (4) stories, not to exceed sixty (60) feet maximum. Penthouses shall not be subject to four-story limitations provided the total height of the building including penthouses

does not exceed sixty (60) feet. Total floor area of church spires, belfries, cupolas, chimneys, radio and flag poles, water tanks, hose towers and penthouses shall not exceed in aggregate twenty-five (25) percent of the floor area of the first floor, and provided that such church spires, belfries, cupolas, chimneys, radio and flag poles, water tanks and hose towers, penthouses and shall not be more than fifty (50) percent higher than the average height of the roof of the main structure. (Ord. of 6-29-87; Ord. of 4-11-88) Section 6 Business District line 3. Height:

a. Four(4)stories,nottoexceedsixty-five(65)feetmaximum,butnotapplicabletochurchspires,belfries,cupolas,chimneys,radioandflagpolesandgasholders,whichshall not exceed thirty-three (33) percent of the floor area of the first floor, and provided that such church spires, belfries, cupolas, chimneys, radio and flag poles and gas holders shall

not be more than fifty (50) percent higher than the average height of the roof of the main structure. (Ord. of 6-29-87; Ord. of 4-11-88) Section 6 Corner Lot Line 8. Corner Lot:

None required except seven (7) feet required when residential use. (Ord. of 6-29-87)
Section 5 Lot Area B. Dimensional Requirements line 2 All other residential: Floor area ratio,

1 to 1 maximum (Ord. of 6-29-87) Section 6 Lot Area Line 2. Lot Area:

a. Residential—-1.5 to 1 maximum floor area ratio.

Section 17 Off-street parking paragraph/s I and J which state the following: I. Each required car space shall be not less than 9 feet in width and 18 feet in length exclusive of drives and maneuvering space, and the total area of any parking facility for more than five (5) cars shall average two hundred seventy-five (275) square feet per car. No driveways

or curb cuts shall exceed thirty (30) feet in width. (Ord. 01-046/2001)
J. Parking facilities shall be designed so that each motor vehicle may proceed to and from the parking space provided for it without requiring the moving of any other motor vehicle. The Board of Appeals, however, may by special permit modify this requirement and the dimensional requirements of paragraph (I) of this section, where a parking facility is under full-time attendant supervision.

Section 17 Off-Street Parking: line 2
Multifamily dwellings 2 spaces per dwelling unit. {See Section 35 for the Transportation Demand Management

MARY GERACE – Chairman
Roberta Suppa – Clerk of the Board of Appeals November 11, 18, 2022