Housing Headlines

ARLINGTON --- A consultant's suggestion that developers be allowed to build housing on "nonconforming buildable lots" around town that don't conform to zoning was eliminated from the town's master plan proposal after residents at a public hearing voiced fears that developers might cram in large homes that would not be in character with the neighborhood.

MEDWAY --- The town's affordable housing trust has purchased the former American Legion building and hopes to turn it into housing "priced for households earning a mix of incomes below the area median.

FOXBORO --- The special counsel for the town's water and sewer commission has advised the town that it must allow the developer of a proposed 248-unit apartment complex to tie into the sewer system if the system has the capacity and if the developer can pay the necessary fees.

BEVERLY --- Windover Construction is trying to gain approvals from several city boards and committees so it can proceed with purchasing the McKay School from the city so it can develop it into 32 apartments.

BROCKTON --- The city's redevelopment of its downtown is beginning to take shape as Trinity Financial has begun leasing 71 market-rate and affordable apartments at Centre 50, one part of the company's $100 million redevelopment of the former Brockton Enterprise newspaper site.

CHARLESTOWN --- The City of Boston has issued a Request for Proposals to gain an idea of what developers might do to rehabilitate the aging Bunker Hill public housing development, the oldest such development in the state.