Campanelli Thorndike 40B Project to Move Forward
Turtle Crossing not enough to invoke 2 percent Safe Harbor rule.
The progress on the Turtle Crossing development is not enough to deny the permit application process of Campanelli Thorndike Norton, LLC under the 2 percent Safe Harbor rule. The Zoning Board of Appeals made this determination at a public hearing Monday night, after receiving counsel from the Department of Housing and Community Development. Massachusetts has mandated that at least 10 percent of every city and town’s housing qualifies as affordable. The 2 percent Safe Harbor rule would have allowed the Board to deny the application outright before going through with the rest of the public hearing if it was determined that the town made sufficient progress in the 12 months prior to this application being filed this past fall toward building …
