October
13
2011
ANDOVER --- The Andover Zoning Board of Appeals will be busy for the next several months as it is holding hearing on two applications for 40B comprehensive permits - a 288-unit proposal on 10 acres on Shattuck Road and a 298-unit proposal on the grounds of the Rolling Green golf course.
October
12
2011
PLYMOUTH --- Voters at fall town meeting will be considering a warrant article that calls for 35 acres of town-owned land to be preserved as open space, with 10 acres set aside for the development of eight affordable homes by the Plymouth Affordable Housing Trust and a yet-to-be selected nonprofit.
October
8
2011
SUDBURY --- The town's Zoning Board of Appeals has begun to have public hearings on Westborough-based Moss Development's comprehensive permit (40B) application to build 120 mixed-income rental apartments on the Johnson Farm property.
October
8
2011
HANOVER --- An official groundbreaking ceremony was held recently to mark the start of an $11.5 million affordable housing development that will result in 66 affordable rental apartments for seniors. The 40B development, called Barstow Village, is being developed by the Archdiocese of Boston's Planning Office for Urban Affairs. It is being built on 6.6 acres of town-owned land next to one of the town's housing authority developments.
October
7
2011
LEXINGTON --- In response to recommendations that the town-owned, eight-acre Busa Farm be used for community farming and some affordable housing, a petition drive has begun asking that development on the site be limited to two units.
October
6
2011
SWAMPSCOTT --- The town's Building Oversight Committee will recommend to selectmen a developer's plan to build 19 homes on the former Temple Israel site instead of B'nai B'rith's proposal to build 64 units of elderly housing.