Planning Board backs Broadway layout changes
Chelsea Planning Board recommended Broadway layout alterations and three special permits. Ben Cares, Director of Housing and Community Development, said the city is receiving upwards of $13 million for the downtown rebuild, which he said will take about two years.
Planning Board · Meeting of September 23, 2026
Chelsea Planning Board recommended Broadway layout alterations and three special permits. Ben Cares, Director of Housing and Community Development, said the city is receiving upwards of $13 million for the downtown rebuild, which he said will take about two years. He called the board's role "an administrative motion." The board also endorsed the easement plan and recommended a Lash Street two-family with a six-foot opaque fence and Dark Sky lighting.
It continued a Walmart site plan review to Oct. 27 and heard a Chelsea Palante Master Plan hearing, with an adoption vote expected that day.
In the full story:
- CHELSEA — September 22, 2026 —
- Opening business and the Walmart continuance
- 311 Eastern Avenue: Sauna Suites
- 14 Cheever Street: one-family to two-family conversion
- 58 Lash Street: new two-family
- Chelsea Palante Master Plan public hearing
- Broadway layout alteration and easement plan
- Housing development finance presentation
- Adjournment
- Who Was There
- Organizations And Documents Referenced
- The complete report: 2,046 words
Source: the Planning Board meeting of September 23, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript.
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