Welcome to You Asked...Patch Answers where we answer readers questions. We recently received questions about the activity on Marblehead Street. Residents want to know why houses were torn down. Here's your answer.
Two or three small houses were torn down on Marblehead Street because a subdivision is being built there. The property will be divided up into five lots, according to Planning Administrator Danielle McKnight.
The subdivision is located at 130-132 Marblehead St. You did not hear about this through a public hearing because the property did not require approval under the subdivision control law. That approval was not necessary because the property contains approximately 6.94 acres of land, and "adequate frontage along Marblehead Street,” McKnight said. Instead, the owner, DUC Residential, went before the Community Planning Commission for "an approval not required."
The owner also requested a special permit for a lot slope ordinance because of the excessive steepness of one lot. Lot number three includes about 800 square feet of protected slope. The purpose of the ordinance is to “preserve as much of the natural landscape as possible," McKnight said. The owners were granted the special permit.
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