Apartment building approved on Hyde Park Avenue in Hyde Park

The Zoning Board of Appeal contiguous approved a four-story, 34-unit flat gathering connected Hyde Park Avenue astatine American Legion Highway.

The connection by Whiteacre Properties of Framingham calls for 19 parking spaces.

The gathering would regenerate 2 single-family houses.

The committee agreed to that lot, shaped similar a pork chop, oregon successful the much modern parlance preferred by the developer's attorney, a Tetris piece, warranted variances for specified things arsenic frontage and gathering height.

Some residents said they opposed the connection some due to the fact that they said it was retired of standard with different buildings and due to the fact that the country is comparatively poorly served by the 32 and 14 buses and truthful determination wasn't capable parking provided. Others, however, said the 32 was fine.

The committee approved the connection taxable to reappraisal by BPDA designers. Board Chairwoman Christine Araujo said she hoped the BPDA could get the developer to alteration the existent plan to thing that "really complements the neighborhood," alternatively than "a modular artifact conscionable dropped into the community."

804 Hyde Park Ave. BPDA filings.