No to Four: Residents Seek Three Story Limit on Cushing Village Building

Abutters and neighborhood group wants height limits on Hyland while developers squeeze exterior a bit more after resident comments.

Just say no, a neighborhood organization that abuts the proposed Cushing Village development is telling the Belmont Planning Board. No, the Cushing Square Neighborhood Association isn't concerned about a decision by Planning Board Chairman Sami Baghdady that by early in the New Year the board would take up possible regulations on any marijuana dispensaries that wish to take up residence in the "Town of Homes." The association wants the board to just say no to a fourth floor on one of the three buildings that make up the $80 million, residential/retail mixed-use project in the heart of Cushing Square being presented by developer Chris Starr and his Smith Legacy Partners development company. The association told the board at its Dec. 11 …

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Neighbors, Residents Question Scale of Cushing Village

Cushing Square Neighborhood Assoc. release list of 10 areas to consider about the proposal.

Despite press coverage indicating the contrary, there are actually broad areas of agreement on the redevelopment of Cushing Square amongst all parties.  All groups want the vacant lots controlled by developer Chris Starr to be redeveloped with a mixed-use infrastructure of a somewhat larger scale than structures now in other parts of Cushing. There is broad support that increasing property taxes to the town is important. Were the proposal in line with what the developer, residents and town officials envisioned during the negotiation and passage of the Cushing Square Overlay District By-Law (CSOD) in 2006, there would be virtually no opposition to the plans. The core disagreement lies in scale: Structures covering nearly the entire site, at…

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