According to this week's city council agenda, it appears that the plan to turn the old North Larch BWL Substation (1609 North Larch) into 5 apartments got a special January 22nd planning board meeting after it was introduced at their January 15th meeting. At the previous meeting, the zoning office recommended to the planning board that the special use permit be denied. However, it seems that by the January 22nd meeting, the zoning office changed it's mind writing a new staff report and the the planning board recommended unanimously that the special land use permit be approved.
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In any case, this now it goes through the typical council process. The building will include 1 one-bedroom apartment in the basement, 1 one-bedroom and 1 two-bedroom apartment on the ground floor, and 2 two-bedroom apartments on the 2nd floor. The one-bedroom units will be 700 square feet, and the two-bedroom units will be 950 square feet.