Rendering of proposed four-unit house.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by the owner of a fire-ravaged two-family home at 7 Tip Top St. in Brighton's Oak Square to rebuild it into a four-unit house with no parking.

Some neighbors vociferously objected to Prasanna Lachagari's plans, warning the cars the extra residents would undoubtedly have, coupled with all the extra visits by ride-share and delivery drivers, would clog up the small street - and set a precedent that would lead to even more such building, turning a quiet little neighborhood of single- and two-family homes between Washington and Tremont streets into just another stretch of apartments.

Lachagri's attorney, Don Wiest, however, said Lachagari, who doesn't have a car, plans to live in the building herself and

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