Hours after municipal demolition permits were issued for the property, the city’s zoning chief Monday advised the developer and contractor behind a 177-unit apartment complex planned for the former Testo’s restaurant of “serious questions and reservations” with the plan approval his department issued in March 2022. As a result, wrote Zoning Administrator Paul Boucher in a letter Monday night, he temporarily revoked that months-old authorization, which for weeks now has been scrutinized by the municipal law department for potential but so far unspecified improprieties. But on Tuesday workers had begun tearing down two of the homes on the Madison Avenue site anyway. Contractor John Guedes, who designed the apartments and whose local Primrose company is building them for out-of-town owner Amit Lakhotia, continued to maintain in an interview Tuesday morning that “everything was done by the book.”
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