The Planning Board Monday night reviewed and took no action on a two-story reconstruction at 7 Pico Beach Road, sending the controversial project back to the Zoning Board of Appeals, which late last year rejected an earlier version of the project.

Medfield resident Alan D’Orlando first requested a special permit to rebuild the home with an additional story and two additional bedrooms in November. At the time, the Zoning Board denied the permit, citing concerns about traffic and the overall size of the project.

The plans brought before the Planning Board on Monday had been scaled back from the first design — three bedrooms instead of five, the elimination of "bump outs," and a 25 percent reduction in second-story floor space.

“What we’ve done is reconfigure the footprint of the house and the number of bedrooms,” consulting engineer Doug Schneider said. “It boils down to the architecture.”

Even so, attorney Marc Deshaies, who represents abutter Heather Hobler, said the reconfigured plans still don’t conform to the Zoning Board of Appeals’ decision.

“You’re going from 1,100 square feet to — very roughly — 2,153 square feet of space,” he said. “The Zoning Board specifically said they denied the project on the grounds of the existing is almost doubling in square footage.”

Schneider said the new plans show 2,028 square feet of living space.

Planning Board members unanimously agreed that substantial changes had been made, and that it wasn’t their place to decide whether or not the project should be built.

“I’m looking at these plans and, in reading the decision, the house is essentially on the same footprint,” board member John Mathieu said. “The revised plans show the rooflines are greatly reduced. They talk about parking and reducing the bedrooms. It’s not our decision if anything is right or wrong. There is enough change to send it back to the Zoning Board.”