TiredPistachio

TiredPistachio t1_jd9i5zb wrote

That's probably because towns were able to demand smaller unit sizes to avoid an influx of children. Many towns about 1/2 the budget is schools. Thats why they love 1-2 beds and 55+ communities.

With these new rules they will not be able to kill projects with larger bedroom counts.

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TiredPistachio t1_jd9gugh wrote

Well with the sewage a LOT of these towns straight up have just septic systems. You can build an apartment with septic, but it requires a huge amount of space which will eat into 1) the profit for developers, 2) the # of units built, 3) useful space, although I wonder if they could build green space over the septic. Not sure if you wanna be walking around over leech fields that big though.

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TiredPistachio t1_jd9ahll wrote

Yeah my guess is nothing will really be built there because of this. Not sure why it didn't qualify for the "small community" adjustment. I'm guessing land area is decent. Dover for the small community adjustment and only has to zone for like 100 units. Its ridiculous

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TiredPistachio t1_jd7mtvm wrote

Small towns got a huge break in a re-do of these rules last year. Carlisle for instance, only need to zone for 95 total units (was originally 750!). And again, thats just zoning, nothing needs to be done. If the builders cant deal with water and sewage they wont build. I'm not seeing anything in the rules that says the towns need to provide those services. My guess is a town like carisle will end up building a single apartment building sometime in the next 20 years, but no sooner than 10.

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TiredPistachio t1_jd7jhax wrote

Wherever they want, but I mean they will put them in places that "make sense" for the town. They will also likely put them in parts of their town that already have apartments or density. I dont see anything on the official website that says it has to be new zones. Not sure about Holden though never been.

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TiredPistachio t1_jbksbhm wrote

You are going to need a car. Hopkinton is extremely rural for a suburb. Daily ubers will not scale and it might even be hard to find one out that far on a consistent basis.

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Maybe try to find housing near work so you can walk and then uber into Boston on the weekend?

I know you dont want to dox yourself but not knowing where your work is located makes this extremely difficult to give advice to a non-driver.

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TiredPistachio t1_j6lh9pr wrote

The whopper itself won't be aided by this. Even if they comply it's supposed to be within 1/2 mile of the commuter rail stop. The site for the whopper is further than that. If they do comply hopefully the zones will be near the commuter rail since that was a big component of the legislation.

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