Third public meeting set on Fairmount-station apartment proposal

Backers of a plan to replace a condemned parcel next to the Fairmount train station with a 27-unit apartment building hold yet another public meeting to discuss the plans on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Hyde Park municipal building on River Street.

The Southwest Boston Community Development Corp., which proposed the apartments, has already had two public meetings on the plan. Although the plans have not changed in the year since they first became public, proponents will hold the third because ISD says the project needs two variances from the Zoning Board of Appeals, not the one the CDC originally thought.

The plan, which was approved by the BRA in September, goes before the ZBA on Feb. 10.

At the first hearing on the plan, some nearby residents raised the specter of poor people moving into the apartments and then overcrowding local streets when their guests park their cars on them.

Although three units would be set aside for "very low income" residents, such as homeless veterans, three units would be rented at "market rates," while the remaining 21 would be rented to people making up to about $66,000 for a family of three.