June 18, 2025

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Needham Planning Board, 6/17/25


It was an evening of many big projects, from hospitals to the DPW to the latest version of the housing complex being proposed by the Charles River Center. However, the biggest shadow may have been cast by a property not even on their agenda for the night…888 Great Plain Avenue. That lot figured greatly into their conversations regarding Planning Board goals.
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Agenda:

1) Minutes

2) Correspondence

3) Report from Planning Director and Board Members

4) Public Hearing: 66 B Street, 360 First Avenue, 410 First Avenue, and 37 A Street

The Children’s Hospital Corporation c/o Boston Children’s Hospital, Petitioner.
Regarding request for certain modifications to the conditions in the 2021 Amendment.

5) Planning Board Goals, part 1

6) Public Hearing: 1407 Central Avenue
Town of Needham, Petitioner
Regarding proposal for a new building addition, as well as the renovation of the existing storage garage to create a dedicated tire maintenance bay.

7) Informal Presentation: Charles River Proposed 40B project

8) Discussion: 14 and 20 Oak Street
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham
Regarding the possibility of a revision to the Hospital’s approved parking plan through the addition of a valet-only parking lot.

9) Planning Board Goals, part 2

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