40B Project Back on the Table
New Turtle Crossing developer makes more environmentally acceptable design.
Plans for the Chapter 40 B multiple housing project known as Turtle Crossing have resurfaced after four years on the back burner, recast into what the new developer says is a design with less environmental impact and a more efficient layout. Turtle Crossing’s first developer was Nick Mirrione, and the project was permitted by the zoning board under the state’s Comprehensive Permit regulations in 2008. New developers Roberto Arista and Marc Daigle of Dakota Partners told selectmen the complex will still offer the original 176 units, but will cut the number of bedrooms by 56, because 56 of the units will be changed from two-bedroom to one-bedroom apartments. While the original plans called for multiple two-story buildings that “meandered …
Michael McKenney
1:30 am on Saturday, April 28, 2012
Does anyone ask the Town Hall or these developers what impact 176 new residential units will have on our public safety departments? Both the police and fire departments are stretched to their limits now. The police department has the same number of officers on the road that it did 25 years ago!!!! The fire department isn't much better. I'd like some answers but I don't expect any. more ›