fearing a loss of privacy, disruption caused by protests and eviction.

Of those, only loss of privacy is a planning consideration, I think, and it should be a demonstrable thing, such as showing that embassy windows look into homes. So unless they’re saying that the planning board improperly ignored such evidence, I don’t understand what the judicial review will be looking at that might change the decision.

Protests are a policing matter and eviction is a matter of housing law. The building desicn and associated matters don’t come into it much.