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February 2001 It seems like almost every town has a horror story about this type of housing. Just in the area of Grafton, there are problems in many towns. In Northborough, town officials and residents are concerned that a proposed 22-unit condo project for a 5-acre plot on South Street is too dense and will pose numerous problems as well as be an eyesore. Similar circumstances are occurring in Mendon, Uxbridge, Upton and other cities and towns where developers came back to apply for 40B affordable housing permits after planning boards rejected project applications filed for the same sites. In Upton for instance, when the Planning Board rejected a developer’s proposal for a 39 home development, the developer came back with a 40B permit application to build a 100-unit condominium complex which will include 25 units of affordable housing. An article on the local Blackstonedaily.com website laments the way Upton and Grafton can be manhandled by developers who use the law to their advantage. “It seems that this 40B proposal, while meaning well, holds our small towns hostage to non-residents coming in and potentially changing the tone, spirit and environmental composition forever, while scooping up huge profits and abandoning our town with huge infrastructure problems that could increase our tax burdens tremendously.”
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