The Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services (ONS) hosted an abutters’ meeting recently for a plan to change a single-family home on 12 Maple St. to a six-unit building.

The West Roxbury Neighborhood Council will be voting on whether or not to recommend this proposal at the Boston Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) on Jan. 27 at 7 p.m. at the District E-5 Station of the Boston Police Department at 1708 Centre St. in West Roxbury.

Attorney Ryan Spitz said he is representing property owners Edward Coyle and Jim Donovan to turn the building on a 15,000-square-foot lot into a six-unit building through a rear and vertical addition. He said the finished project would have 10 off-street parking spaces.

Spitz said the project will need approval from the Boston Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) for multi-family use in a residential subdistrict, insufficient parking, excessive floor area ratio, excessive building height in stories (three proposed 2.5 maximum), and insufficient usable open space (1,800 square feet required per unit).

Spitz said he wanted to clarify that they are in the process of “removing” the parking violation, as the project team believes they are compliant with the requirement.

“The requirement here is that from four units to nine units, the parking requirement is 1.25 spaces per unit and that is for new units of housing, and so the requirement would be 6.25 parking spaces, and as you can see from the plans we’re providing 10,” he said.

Spitz also said the open space requirement “is a very high requirement of 1,800 square feet per unit,” and they are able to provide 1,200 square feet per unit.

Spitz said the plan is still preliminary and changes might come from feedback at the meeting.

“This is the first time we’re publicly presenting this proposal, and a lot of what we’re going to do is sit back and listen to the commentary we hear today,” he said.

Project architect Jonathan Stone said while they’re over the limit in stories, they are at the feet height requirement of 35 feet, and emphasized that the new addition will only marginally increase the height of the current building.

A resident going only by Dianne said she lives nearby and said she felt the number of units was a bad move.

“I think adding this many units to a small one-way street is a disaster,” she said. “I don’t think you’re providing enough parking and not being realistic as to how many people are going to have cars, and the overflow is going to hit us.”

Spitz reiterated that the project is providing more parking than what is required.

“Number one issue straight across the board, I am not going to try to sugarcoat parking in any manner whatsoever, however we are providing more than what is required,” he said.

Resident Lou Murray said the neighborhood is very concerned about parking, but that he was “pleasantly surprised” at the amount being presented.

“As far as my experience with this developer, he is a great neighbor,” he said.

Resident Joan Sheehan said she’s been having issues with the property currently. Spitz said no one is currently living there, but Sheehan said she’s had noise issues.

“Someone is living there, someone with a bad muffler who wakes me up every morning at 4:30 a.m. and goes the wrong way up to Centre Street, every morning,” she said. “I’m obviously very disappointed that everything there is overgrown, it’s been a while since that’s been sold and nothing’s cleaned up. I’m hoping they’re going to be better neighbors once they get what they’re looking for.”

The WRNC will hear presumably updated plans on Tuesday.