Crescent Street Treatment Facility Rezoning and Variance
At a glance
What: a proposal to reuse a mill on Crescent Street with a 120-bed residential treatment facility.
Where it stands: The Planning Board denied the IG to DR zone change 4-0 on September 8 as spot zoning. The Council allowed the applicant to withdraw without prejudice on October 20. The applicant now seeks a use variance (Petition 979) at the Board of Appeals on November 12.
Next: Board of Appeals hearing November 12; Councilor Magrath-Smith asked the Law Department for guidance on new state variance rules.
Details
The Ordinance Committee's October 14 agenda included a public hearing on the zone change before it was withdrawn.
Zone change IG to DR on Crescent St (ZC 2026-8; North Country Production; a 120-bed residential treatment facility mixed with mill reuse) was denied 4-0 as spot zoning. See Crescent Street Treatment Facility Rezoning and Variance.
The agenda has 67 items. Public hearings include the zone change for Crescent St (see Crescent Street Treatment Facility Rezoning and Variance), Red Barn Growers and Diablo Man (see Cannabis Hours Pilot and Permits), the native-plantings zoning order and the comprehensive-plan zoning package (see Zoning Overhaul and Comprehensive Plan).
Zone change for Crescent St, IG to DR: leave to withdraw without prejudice adopted, citing state variance-law changes and the applicant seeking another pathway (Board of Appeals Petition 979). See Crescent Street Treatment Facility Rezoning and Variance.
Councilor Magrath-Smith asks for Law guidance on the new state variance statutes after the Crescent St withdrawal. See Crescent Street Treatment Facility Rezoning and Variance.
Petition 979: a residential rehabilitation use variance in an IG district on Crescent St. See Crescent Street Treatment Facility Rezoning and Variance.