Where

Zoom

Scheduled until

10:30 PM

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What's on the agenda

Covers continued zoning requests for properties on Burnside Street and Cedar Street. Also includes an appeal at 1-3 East Collins Street and a six-month extension for a sixty-unit development at 75 North Street.

Agenda items

• Continued: 7 Burnside Street and 5 Skerry Street Court, applicant Graham Wing (formerly Graham Hines). Variances to divide a merged parcel and build a two-family house at 5 Skerry Street Court, with five parking spaces where six are required.
• Continued: 31 Cedar Street, applicants 31 Cedar Street, LLC and Salem Residential Rental Properties, LLC, through Michael Becker. Variances to separately develop two record parcels, keep the two-family dwelling at 31-33 Cedar Street, move the historic dwelling at 259 Washington Street to 27-29 Cedar Street, and build an addition to create a 2.5-story, two-family dwelling.
• 1-3 East Collins Street, applicant Charles Knight. Appeal of the Building Commissioner's decision to permit a building over thirty-five feet tall and a dumpster less than four feet from the abutting property line.
• 75 North Street, 2 Commercial Street, and 3 South Mason Street, applicant 75 North Street LLC. Six-month extension to rights granted in a decision dated December 11, 2023, for a sixty-unit, four-story mixed-use development.
• Introduction of Associate Member Samantha Stringfellow.
• Staff updates on application requirements and standard conditions.
• Board vote on updated application requirements and standard conditions.

The full text is in the city's PDF, linked below.

Agenda posted on the city website (PDF, 158 KB). Saved copy (opens in new tab), saved October 19, 2026.

Terms used here

ADA

Americans with Disabilities Act, the federal law on access for people with disabilities.

M.G.L.

Massachusetts General Laws, the state's laws.

Open Meeting Law

The state law (M.G.L. Chapter 30A, Sections 18 to 25) that requires public boards to meet in public, post notice of their meetings in advance, and keep minutes.

variance

Permission from the zoning board to use or build on a property in a way the zoning doesn't allow, such as closer to a lot line, because of a hardship particular to the property.

All the terms in the glossary

Source

This meeting is listed in more than one place: the same board on the same day, and only one listing gives a time. The listings are shown here as one meeting.

• Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting (opens in new tab), on the city calendar
• Zoning Board of Appeals Agenda 10/21/2026 (opens in new tab), on the city's Agenda Center

First recorded by Salem Publick on October 19, 2026.