Needham became the latest Massachusetts suburb to shoot down a controversial state-mandated MBTA zoning plan, but its Select Board chairman says the town won’t follow in Milton’s footsteps.

GOOD MORNING. TOWN LEADERS PUT FORWARD AN AMBITIOUS PLAN TO TRY TO MEET THE STATE’S MBTA COMMUNITIES ACT. BUT RESIDENTS HERE IN NEEDHAM SAY THAT THE TOWN NEEDS TO PULL BACK ON THAT PLAN A BIT.

Voters in Needham Tuesday repealed state-mandated zoning that would have paved the way for more housing, sending town leaders back to square one to comply with the MBTA Communities Act.

The suburb became the latest to rebuff a controversial state housing law. The town will now have until July to craft a new ...

Shrewsbury has upheld its MBTA Communities zoning in a referendum vote Tuesday, remaining safely in compliance with state law ...

Opponents of Needham’s plan to allow more multifamily housing under the MBTA Communities law have defeated the measure in a town-wide referendum. While the results are not yet official ...

Needham families and others are paying for more ... finally spur those residents who’ve been wary of complying with the MBTA Act that this is an important part of the ongoing solution to the ...

To vote “no” would be to reject that plan, and risk pushing Needham out of compliance with the MBTA Communities law, which requires cities and towns served by the T to make it easier to build ...

By Lenny Strauss Hometown Weekly Reporter On Tuesday, January 14th, Needham residents voted in a special election to decide whether to enact a zoning plan that if implemented, would see the town as ...

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