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The commission issued a positive order of conditions for the proposed multi-family development at 245-265 Winter Street after concluding that work limited to previously disturbed buffer areas would reduce runoff and improve water quality. Hearings for a natural gas line relocation on Tower Road and approximately 140-unit Watch Factory Phase 4 improvements were continued to February 26.
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The Winter Street project received approval under the commission’s wetlands-protection process, with standard conditions and no additional site-specific requirements; construction was not expected to begin for 6–9 months. The Tower Road gas-line proposal remains under review pending a letter from the Cambridge Water Department and assignment of a state file number. The commission also followed up on reported snow dumping near wetlands and restoration plantings.
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