The Marion Zoning Board of Appeals met briefly on September 23 to continue the case of Heron Cove, LLC’s Comprehensive Permit application for the construction of a residential development on Wareham Road (Route 6). The continuance, considered at the applicant’s request, was voted onto the agenda for the ZBA’s meeting scheduled for Thursday, November 18, at 6:30 pm.
Because the ZBA’s regular schedule of second and fourth Thursdays of any month would have conflicted in November with Veterans Day and Thanksgiving, Heron Cove will next be heard on the third Thursday in November.
In June, the 40B affordable housing development proposed by Ken Steen of Steen Realty changed course from a prior proposal for 96 residential units to 120 units in order to offset costs associated with infrastructural requirements. The revised Local Initiative Program (LIP) application proposed eight new buildings, each consisting of three two-bedroom, triplex units mainly focused on using an area of land previously reserved for Approval Not Required (ANR) development.
Steen is also building a large, residential-commercial 40R development near the intersection of Route 28 and Route 58 in Rochester.
The next meeting of the Marion ZBA is scheduled for Thursday, October 14, at 6:30 pm.
Marion Zoning Board of Appeals
By Mick Colageo