May
11
2016
BROOKLINE --- While the owner of a property across from Brookline High is moving forward with plans for a seven-story, 99-unit apartment building, town officials voted Tuesday to spend $50,000 to evaluate the property for a potential high school expansion or other municipal use.
May
11
2016
ATTLEBORO --- Little protest was heard during a public hearing before the city council and zoning board on plans to make a zoning change to allow WinnDevelopment to redevelop an old factory into 103 units of over-55 housing, with 51 percent of the units affordable.
May
11
2016
MEDFORD --- Medford’s Community Development Board is reviewing a proposal for a new 490-unit, three-building apartment complex at the former Shaw’s supermarket site across from Meadow Glen Mall.
May
11
2016
SOMERVILLE --- The Board of Alderman have strengthened Somerville's inclusionary zoning bylaw, voting to increase the percentage of affordable units to 20 percent in projects of 18 units or more and 17.5 percent for projects from eight to 17 units. Previously, only 12.5 percent of units had to be affordable for projects of eight units or more.
May
10
2016
TRURO --- Barnstable Superior Court has ruled against the town in its 2014 decision to grant a comprehensive to Habitat for Humanity to create six lots on a 1.78 acre parcel on Rt. 6, siding with an abutter who filed suit claiming she received only a day's notice that the town's Zoning Board of Appeals was voting on the permit.
May
9
2016
SALEM --- Reacting to a recent report that the Bay State's rising housing costs are now spilling over into New Hampshire, the Salem News editorializes that it's time to do something about housing if the region wants to get serious about building an educated, adaptable workforce.