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Friday, January 11, 2013

Stefanelli Appointed SERPDD Rep, Disapproves of Campanelli 40 B

Emphasized that if all approved 40 Bs were developed in town, Norton would be 6 or 7 percent beyond state minimum recommendation.

Selectmen and newly appointed SERPDD representative Ralph Stefanelli will be working together to try to ameliorate the impact of the newest of Norton’s several Chapter 40 B “affordable” housing projects on the town.  The as yet unnamed development, first aired last summer by Lloyd Geisinger of Thorndike Development and Steve Murphy of Campanelli, is designed for about 230  one- and two-bedroom apartments, and will sit a stone’s throw away from upscale Red Mill Village on East Main Street. As an affordable project under the state’s Chapter 40 B “anti- snob zoning” bylaw, the project’s developers have been seeking a single comprehensive permit from the Zoning Board, a process that allows the designers to overstep certain local zoning bylaws …

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