After an outpouring of community resistance and a denial of a request for approval of a parking plan, the final kibosh was put on a proposal for a BYO nightclub or “assembly hall” on upper Whalley Avenue.
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Shopping strip at 1330 Whalley Ave. where Kenneth Redding had pitched opening an “assembly hall” (in the right corner commercial space above).
The kibosh came in the form a vote against a special exception for Kenneth Redding’s proposed “assembly hall” at 1331 Whalley Ave. at Tuesday night’s Board of Zoning Appeals meeting.
Redding was not present at the gathering. He attended a zoning hearing a month earlier when neighbors came out in force with concerns not only about parking, but about late-night carousing and drinking, and vagrancy in neighbors’ yards.
“I recall an overwhelming negative community presence based on very late hours, bad behavior,” BZA Acting Chair Alexandra Daum said. “I would concur and move to deny, based on community pushback and the City Plan recommendation.
The vote was unanimous. (Read a previous story on the subject here.)
Agreed. There is already a big problem with the loitering outside the liquor store in the plaza next door. I wish the city would put pressure on the liquor store to stop allowing people to buy alcohol (usually single servings) and let people consume them outside while they hang out. There have already been mulitple alcohol fueled incidents.