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Article: New Superior Court Decision Creates Split In Authority About What Happens To Pending Appeals When Town Reaches 10% Subsidized Housing Threshold.(Taylor vs Housing Appeals Comm.)
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- May 4, 2007
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Earlier this month, Mintz Levin's Housing Practice Group issued an advisory regarding an Appeals Court decision that potentially undermined Chapter 40B by keeping alive an abutter group's original appeal of a comprehensive permit to construct subsidized housing even though that permit had been later modified by the Housing Appeals Committee (HAC) and the same abutters group had filed a separate appeal of the modified permit. See Mintz Levin Housing Advisory, "Appeals Court Grants Abutters Two Chances to Appeal Comprehensive Permits; Ruling Raises Practical Questions," April 6, 2007. Now the Massachusetts Superior Court judge handling that parallel appeal, the abutter's ...