EVEN AS SHE TAKES Milton to court for flouting the MBTA Communities zoning law, Attorney General Andrea Campbell would like to tamp down murmurings that a rebellion is on its way. Though Campbell and housing advocates publicly consider Milton to be anomalous in rejecting a sweeping housing law requiring multifamily zoning near public transit, the attorney general’s suit aims to establish the state’s ultimate power to create and enforce the law before any other cities or towns start to bridle.“
The bright spots are – and frankly this needs to win the day – Milton is an outlier,” Campbell said on The Codcast. “Most communities are coming into compliance. The rapid transit communities are in compliance, all of them.
Source: In Milton dispute, AG Campbell will work with the town, but ‘the state trumps’ – CommonWealth Beacon
