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Town Votes to Acquire 92.7-Acre Parcel

MIDDLEBOROUGH, MA-The town has decided to purchase a 92.7-acre parcel here on which a developer had been interested in developing a multihousing project with an affordable housing component.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on February 01, 2002

MIDDLEBOROUGH, MA-In a move that will prevent a developer from building an affordable housing development on the site, the town will purchase a 92.7-acre parcel here. The town has the right of first refusal on the site because of its reduced tax classification.

Developer Elliot Schneider had applied for a comprehensive permit to develop a multihousing complex on the site, which he has since withdrawn. The permit would have allowed him to bypass local zoning laws if his project had an affordable housing component and the town had not met its 10% affordable housing requirement. Town manager John Healey says that Middleborough has 4.5% affordable housing.

But Healey insists that the town was not looking to prevent affordable housing from being built in the town but rather on that site. “We didn’t want high density there,” he tells GlobeSt.com. The site is zoned for two-acre lots and Healey points out that the developer wanted to put houses on 20,000-sf lots. He adds that the area, which is about five miles from the center of town, is not hooked up to water or sewer lines. Healey says that the town eventually wants to put a water storage facility on this site.

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