Housing Headlines

WESTFORD --- More than 400 rental units loom to be built in town through Ch. 40B and if all are approved, it would double the number of units in town and push the town well past the state's affordable housing threshold of 10 percent. Right now, Westford is at 8 percent.

BOSTON --- Designated by the city as the developer of a piece of surplus land in Dorchester's Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood, the Vietnamese American Initiative for Development Inc.has announced plans to build a mixed-use and mixed-income affordable housing complex with 41 apartments.

HYANNIS --- A developer seeking to build 33 luxury condos on a 1.32 Hyannis' Inner Harbor parcels has asked the town's Planning Board for waivers from its affordable housing, density, height and historic district architecture requirements. Waivers sought include relief from a requirement that 10 percent of the units be affordable, and an increase of the town's density limit of 7 housing units per acre to 25 units per acre.

CONCORD --- The effort to build an 83-unit assisted living facility on land next to MCI-Concord cleared a procedural hurdle recently as the West Concord Advisory Committee OK'd the proposal. The project, proposed by the Grantham Group, would still need the OKs of the Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals.

FRANKLIN --- Responding to neighborhood feedback, the Town Council has voted to deny a Medway developer's request to rezone an 11-acre parcel on Summer St. from rural to residential. Grandis Homes was seeking the zoning so it could build 34 single-family town houses.

FALMOUTH - The Zoning Board of Appeals expressed support for issuing a comprehensive permit for Little Pond Place, a 40-unit housing project on Spring Bars Road, using land purchased with Community Preservation Act money in 2010 for the expansion of local affordable housing and open space.