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The Comprehensive Permit Act [1] is a Massachusetts law which allows developers of affordable housing to override certain aspects of municipal zoning bylaws and other requirements. It consists of Massachusetts General Laws (M.G.L.) Chapter 40B, Sections 20 through 23, along with associated regulations issued and administered by the ...
NEWTON — The Town Council wants to update zoning rules to head off a trend of converting large homes to apartments and boarding houses. The proposed changes, which would limit the number of ...
A first priority: municipal officials "Our first priority is to reach out and make sure municipal officials have the right answers and have places to send people with further questions," said ...
General P. Lincoln Mitchell went as far as to call zoning laws "an advanced form of communism." [2] Others supported zoning laws for their uniform and consistent application, and believed that they would be a force of social equality. The constitutionality of zoning laws was highly debated until the ruling of Village of Euclid v.
It is unclear if the city of Boston is exempt from the Dover Amendment. The Boston Globe has referred to an exemption for the city on occasion. The Massachusetts General Court approved exemptions for the City of Cambridge (Acts of 1979, Chap. 565 and Acts of 1980, Chap. 387) allowing it to regulate educational and religious uses of property, which Cambridge then incorporated into its zoning laws.
Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.It is roughly 8 miles (13 km) west of downtown Boston, and comprises a patchwork of thirteen villages.. The city borders Boston to the northeast and southeast (via the neighborhoods of Brighton and West Roxbury), Brookline to the east, Watertown and Waltham to the north, and Weston, Wellesley, and Needham to the we
The Star Market on Austin Street (briefly renamed "Shaw's") was one of the first projects in the country to acquire air rights for construction; the supermarket is built over the Massachusetts Turnpike. [1] Newtonville was once served by the now defunct Newton Nexus bus, a free service provided by the city of Newton.
The church in 2007 held services in rented rooms at 300 Walnut Street in the Masonic Building., [3] but is now meeting at 1141 Walnut Street, in Newton Highlands. The building has since been divided into 11 condominium units. [4] It is now called the Oxford House, [5] [6] and was the city's first inclusionary zoning project. [7]