Housing Headlines

PLYMOUTH --- A local attorney representing developer Saxon Partners has asked the planning board to consider rezoning Colony Place to allow 240 to 280 apartments to be built behind the commercial property. Attorney Bob Betters told the planning board allowing apartments would fetch twice the tax revenue that a commercial development would bring.

BOSTON --- Related Beal's plans to build a $230 million complex with 239 apartments for low- and moderate-income tenants with an adjacent hotel took another step forward last week as the City of Boston approved a tax break for an yet to be disclosed amount.

MARLBOROUGH --- The city council will allow developers of a 60-unit condo development to pay $450,000 to the city rather than comply with the city's inclusionary zoning ordinance requiring that 15 percent of the unit be sold at an affordable price. The funds will be put into a downtown economic development fund.

ARLINGTON --- More than 200 residents packed a special selectmen's meeting held to ask questions about Oaktree Development's plans to seek a Ch. 40B permit to build 219 apartments on land in East Arlington owned by the Mugar family.

HYANNIS --- A letter to the editor by a tourist from Kentucky sparked a widespread debate on social media and in the community about how to handle the large homeless population in downtown Hyannis.

BOSTON --- Mayor Walsh's housing goal of 53,000 units in 15 years has developers eyeballing the city's surplus land while neighborhood groups are concerned these parcels will be awarded before an overall neighborhood plan is put into place. This is especially true in Roxbury, where the highest share of vacant land is located.