Developers Propose Apartment Complex for Route 20 West
The Gutierrez Company wants to build 243 apartments under the state's Chapter 40B affordable housing law.
A developer is proposing to build more than 240 apartments at the intersection of Route 20 and Ames St., a project that seeks to use the state's Chapter 40B affordable housing law to bypass some local regulations.
The Zoning Board of Appeals will open a public hearing on the proposal, known as Brookview Village, on Tuesday, Aug. 7 at 7:30.
The project proposes four buildings with a total of 243 apartments, as well as a club house and swimming pool on 18.7 acres of land. The property is currently zoned for industrial uses.
City Councilor Matt Elder recently wrote an opinion piece for the Main Street Journal on the proposal, saying the sudden influx of housing will put pressure on the city's public safety and educational resources.
Elder also notes that the project was proposed before it was recently announced that as of the release of data from the 2010 census, Marlborough has achieved the state-mandated 10 percent affordable housing threshhold.
Reaching that level means the city has more power to control 40B projects, which otherwise give developers broad leeway to waive local zoning and planning regulations.
Scorpion
11:42 am on Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Just what Marlborough needs is more illegal aliens, section 8 recipients and drug addicts to put us in the same class as Lawrence and Brockton. While they are at it, put a methadone clinic next door.
Barb Nahoumi
10:02 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
No more apartments. We have enough already
Joescarp
11:22 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
That area is already congested with the Hannaford Mall, Boston Market, Wendy's, Linguini's, and scads of other stores already there.
arnold
11:52 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Tell the greedy developer to try some other community.
The dolts on Beacon Hill, who claim to represent us, have mandated that each community have 10% of their housing as "affordable", Marlboro has more than fulfilled its mandated requirement, so its time to be concerned about how the city's taxpayers can maintain their housing at an affordable tax rate. The surrounding communities should either comply or better yet throw the state dictators out of office and rescind the law .
Maureen Matott
11:52 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Enough with the apartments already! Since we moved here 18 years ago, I have watched Marlboro become an annex of Framingham and Worcester. Marlboro has MORE than met their burden (and I am stressing burden here) with affordable housing...it's time OTHER communities step up to the plate...leave Marlboro ALONE!