As expected, the new owner of the former Testo’s restaurant has formally asked the city’s zoning board of appeals to restore a permit for a controversial 177-unit apartment complex with underground parking issued last fall and cancelled in late July. At issue is the July 27 decision by Paul Boucher, head of the municipal zoning department, to revoke the authorization his office issued last October for Lakhotia’s development, located at Madison and Westfield avenues in the North End. The sale to Lakhotia and subsequent closure of Testo’s was announced last November although that $3.5 million deal did not close until April. It also included a handful of neighboring vacant residential properties owned by Testa and Giacobbe. As a result, neighbors of Testo’s and elected officials and activists from that North End area pressured Mayor Joe Ganim’s administration to intercede and either reduce the development’s size or stop it altogether.
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