[CPEO-BIF] Holliston, Massachusetts condo project

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Holliston drops challenge, OK’s 40B condo project on brownfield site
Town drops challenge citing threat to wetlands

By Jose Martinez |
Boston Globe
December 4, 2011

Holliston’s six-year legal challenge to block the building of a  
condominium complex proposed under the state’s affordable housing law  
on a former illegal dump ended quietly with a shuffling of paper.

The Zoning Board of Appeals in 2006 had cited strict local wetlands  
ordinances in denying Green View Realty’s request for a comprehensive  
permit to build its project on the old Bird property, a substantially  
cleaned up brownfield.

Last week the board approved the document with a few housekeeping  
additions.

"I think you realize our original decision and our support of it had  
nothing to do with any individual involved," the board's chairman,  
Henry A. Dellicker, told Green View developer J. Michael Norton at a  
meeting Wednesday.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/west/2011/12/04/holliston- 
drops-challenge-condo-project-brownfield-site/SEh4yKwZP3dXEXAKLdmeKM/ 
story.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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