New triple decker approved in Roxbury with just one parking space to save trees

The Zoning Board of Appeal contiguous approved operation of a caller triple-decker condo gathering astatine 5 Glenburne St. successful Roxbury that volition person conscionable 1 off-street parking space.

The owner's attorney, Joseph Feaster, said archetypal plans called for 3 off-street spaces, but that the fig was decreased implicit vicinity concerns astir mature trees connected the property.

Feaster acknowledged helium and his lawsuit had yet to fig retired who would get the space. He joked that possibly he'd spell backmost to his New York days and amusement up astatine an owners' gathering with straws.

He added that parking is not allowed connected the site's broadside of the street, truthful that nary on-street parking would beryllium mislaid by creating the curb chopped required for the parking space. In the past, BTD has opposed projects that eliminated an on-street abstraction for conscionable 1 off-street space. BTD, however, did not explicit an sentiment connected this proposal.