Very interesting, and there will be serious push-back. Note-"That is the message Massachusetts is sending to 175 cities and suburbs in the Boston area, as a bill passed last year to boost housing production begins to take effect <https://mass.streetsblog.org/2022/01/13/new-state-rule-would-force-suburbs-to-legalize-thousands-of-new-apartments-near-t-stops/>. Almost every jurisdiction in eastern Massachusetts, from the New Hampshire border to Worcester to the Cape Cod Canal…”
Certainly some serious pressure will and should be placed on State Reps. once other towns realize the implications. Lincoln already has grasped the implications. For Lincoln, as was shown in a recent article in the Squirrel, the land available, given the map proposed by MAPC and this new growth initiative (NOT a mandate), the proposed 750 units would have to fit into a very small land mass. In order to reach 750 units, we would need to redevelop with 5-6 story buildings, at a minimum. It simply is not feasible. We should all be contacting our current and future State Reps. to ask their positions, and to explain. We have regularly added multi family housing, including affordable housing to our inventory, and, I expect we will continue to do so, but not in this manner. Sara Mattes ------ Sara Mattes > On Jan 24, 2022, at 5:29 PM, Lynne Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > An interesting article for Lincoln. > > https://slate.com/business/2022/01/massachusetts-zoning-apartments-housing-transit.html > > > Lynne Smith > 5 Tabor Hill Road > Lincoln, MA 01773 > 781-258-1175 > Sent from my iPhone > -- > The LincolnTalk mailing list. > To post, send mail to [email protected]. > Search the archives at http://lincoln.2330058.n4.nabble.com/. > Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/. > Change your subscription settings at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. >
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