Marc Levy The former Darul Kabab restaurant at 2072 Massachusetts Ave., North Cambridge, is due to become an all-affordable housing tower.

Developers of an all-affordable tower at 2070 Massachusetts Ave. defended its height and innovative building materials at an Oct. 7 meeting of the Planning Board.

Original plans faced resistance at nine stories, and the increase to 12 stories, some said, is out of scale with the area and will cast shadows on surrounding buildings. “Twelve stories is an extremely tall building for this area, and I do think that the rendered images are a little bit deceiving,” said one of the wary neighbors, Sean Smeland of Massachusetts Avenue. “At that height, it would be a bit of an eyesore.”

Developers said they increased the height to provide more housing for a c

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