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UpdatedMon, Apr 26, 2021 at 2:37 pm ET Replies(5) Resident Ernie Karelas gazes upon what someone wants to make into a two-level home at the end of Montvale Street. (Mike Carraggi/Patch) MELROSE, MA — At the end of Montvale Street, a cramped one-way near Wyoming Cemetery, stands a rock ledge adorning a long slope filled with trees. The slope is so wide and pronounced that it is under a slope protection ordinance. The real estate listing said it was "unbuildable." Now the man who bought it want...

UpdatedThu, Apr 22, 2021 at 9:02 am ET Reply (Mike Carraggi/Patch) MELROSE, MA — When Councilors Shawn MacMaster and Cory Thomas pitched their emergency order last week to require some developers to report weekly acoustic monitoring data to the city for public consumption, they said the developers were already recording the data and it would cost them nothing extra. This order was just to help the city enforce what the developers already agreed to — which is keeping track of the noise comin...

UpdatedMon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:36 am ET Reply(1) This 2018 photo shows construction at 419-429 Main St., one of the major projects that have taken place in Melrose in the last few years. (Mike Carraggi/Patch) MELROSE, MA — The City Council is poised to pass an emergency order requiring many construction projects to provide noise monitoring reports to the city, which must then make the information available on its website. The proposal from Councilors Shawn MacMaster and Cory Thomas comes afte...