As a year-end deadline approaches for 130 Boston suburbs to enact multifamily zoning districts, some communities are seeking to discourage housing production by selecting undesirable parcels for development.The strategy is the latest by local officials to obey the letter, but not necessarily the spirit, of the MBTA Communities law.
Hopkinton voters will take up a pair of town meeting articles Nov. 18 rezoning small sections of the community for multifamily development by-right. But officials have made it clear they picked areas considered tricky development sites, in an effort to discourage population growth and additional burdens on town services.
Source: Towns Using Water, Sewer to Block MBTA Communities Housing
