As a member of the Select Board’s MBTACA Multifamily Permitting Committee, I suspect we may not see the head-to-head matchup over compliance to the MBTA-CA your story anticipates during Brookline’s fall Town Meeting. This week the Committee presented its interim progress report to the Select Board. And while the Committee has not finalized the details of how we will draw a meaningful compliant district, everyone on the Committee is committed to making sure that district incentivizes at least 700 new housing units.
The Select Board encouraged the Committee to develop a meaningful MBTACA district that supports our commercial districts while encouraging the development of affordable housing as well as middle income housing. In addition to the inclusion of those goals in the presentation by Committee Chair Dick Benka, two members of the Committee, Carol Gladstone and I, spoke directly to the fact that the Committee will continue working to achieve that end.
Katha Seidman
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