Image courtesy of Embarc Studio.

A development team say they have found a way to turn a sloping, triangular parcel crammed between a busy road, a supermarket and a cemetery into housing.

City Realty is proposing to build 49 units of residential housing at 375 Cummins Highway in Roslindale, a 39,106-square-foot, wooded parcel which sees up to 25 feet of elevation change in about 50 feet as it rises from the busy American Legion Highway to its south according to documents filed with the Boston Planning & Development Agency. The $11.84 million project’s immediate neighbors are a Stop & Shop-anchored retail plaza, a small parking structure and the Mt. Calvary Cemetery.

To make the site work, City plans to use the relatively flat northern half of the parcel to build a 49,840-square-foot, 6-story building and turn the steeply sloping southern half into a heavily planted buffer to screen the building from traffic on American Legion Highway. Embarc Studio is the project architect.

The building would have 61 car and 49 bicycle parking spots in a first-floor garage and an off-street drop-off/pick-up spot. Amenity spaces described in the BPDA application include an on-site gym, bicycle repair area, coworking space and two common roof decks. The unit mix includes four studios, 31 one-bedroom units, 13 two-bedroom units and one three-bedroom unit. The application does not specify if the units will be ownership or rental units.

The project may need zoning relief as part of the parcel is zoned for multifamily use, while another is zoned for single-family homes.