Affordable Housing Law Encourages Town Development
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| LEE DELLICKER is the president of Windover LLC (www.WindoverLLC.com) of Manchester-by-the-Sea, a builder and developer of fine housing and commercial construction projects in select communities in New England. |
By Lee Dellicker
Nothing seems to strike fear in the hearts of local planning officials more than the term 40B. Any community with less than 10 percent of its housing stock classified as affordable is vulnerable to 40B. Many believe they will lose control over what happens within their town as developers run roughshod over their zoning bylaws. Abutters of proposed 40B developments are no less frightened and begin immediate hand-wringing, drawing on fears of overcrowded schools, rising crime rates, vagrancy and all manner of social ills.
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