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Agenda
■ Revisiting Context
■ Architectural Design
■ Landscape and Site Design
■ Parking
■ Questions
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Revisiting Context
■ The Project aligns with the Town's stated Housing,
Housing Diversity, and Master Plan goals.
■ The need for affordable housing and suitability of the site
verified by the state in the PEL issued on 9/16/25.
■ Location was targeted in 19 years of campus master
planning for use as multifamily and shared parking .
■ Alternative development of market rate housing would
exacerbate the Town's affordable housing shortfall .
■ Existing garage is beyond its useful life and poorly
manages stormwater.
■ Positive economic impacts include:
■ Increased property taxes;
■ Multiplier effect of adding population to support local
businesses; and
■ Potential for linkage to state funding for needed
infrastructure projects.
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Revisiting Context
■ Total Project Size is comparable to existing zoning :
■ 1 .57 FAR v 2.0 FAR allowed by Special Permit
■ Meets 55' height limit allowed by Special Permit
■ Combined footprint of new buildings (including
garage) about the same as the current garage.
■ Perimeter setback waivers requested for practical
purposes:
■ Inconsistency in underlying zoning districts
■ Evening out impact on abutters.
■ Ability to preserve more existing trees.
■ Responded to architectural peer review and other
public comments to reduce unit counts, increase
setbacks, step back upper floors, increase masonry,
preserve more mature trees, restrict access to
Prescott Street, etc.
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Revisiting Context
■ Impacts of the project were studied carefully and peer
reviewed by the Town's consultants:
■ Traffic impacts were deemed not significant enough
to affect levels of service at nearby intersections.
■ Parking studies supported the amount of parking
provided and the shared parking approach already
available by special permit.
■ Stormwater management design confirmed to meet
current state standards with extra measures added to
divert runoff away from High Street bottleneck.
■ Isolated wetland falls below jurisdictional threshold
for conservation.
■ Water and Sewer infrastructure proved sufficient to
handle projected use.
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Architectural Design
■ TAT submitted a revised plan set dated 6/19/26.
■ Integrates flat-roof approach at Prescott Street and
presents proposed signage at subdivision road.
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Landscape and Site Design
■ Revised plan set from CDG dated 6/19/26 including
Verdant landscape plans dated 6/17/26.
■ Identifies trees for preservation and includes new Tree
Protection Plan.
■ Specifies plantings along Prescott Street.
■ Other minor clarifications at interior courtyard and along
garage facade, .
Parking
■ Total parking required by existing zoning for the Project
as constituted would be 467 spaces.
■ Total parking included on site is 462 spaces.
■ Waiver request allows shared parking to preserve
existing approved uses, not potential future development.
■ Historically, residential units within the campus have
been granted special permits to share the commercial
parking given the different usage patterns.
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