Court ruling: Lights must stay off atop Zinc, but apartment owners can ask board anew
By John Hawkinson Thursday, August 17, 2017 A nighttime view of the Zinc luxury apartments from a nearby resident‘s balcony in 2016. (Photo: Marie Saccoccio) The rooftop uplighting at the Zinc luxury apartment building must stay off, Judge Michael D. Vhay has decided in a decision dated Monday . East Cambridge residents and neighbors to the Zinc building at 22 Water St. in NorthPoint complained to the city in 2016 when Zinc added three wide stripes of changing color LEDs across the roofline of the 15-story, 392- apartment building near Charlestown and Somerville; the city ordered Zinc to turn off the lights, and Zinc finally sued the city in the Land Court in October. Oral argument was held Aug. 9 at the Land Court in Boston. Sarah Turano-Flores, an attorney for Zinc, argues in Land Court. (Photo: John Hawkinson ) Sarah Turano-Flores, an attorney for Zinc, argued to the court that even though the final development plan filed by the original developers explicitly barred the us...