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See below and several other pages on this site have info specific to the Acton 2024 Town Meeting votes to rezone Acton.
NOTE: If there are errors in the Town Meeting info on ResponsibleZoning.org, please know the the authors did not intend to publish errors. The Town refused to provide numbers and we did our best to estimate based on work by local volunteer financial analysts/engineers.
We plan to keep the info below for historical purposes, because it may be useful to people.

Impacts by Zoning Article

Article 12 MBTA Zoning VOTE NO! on MBTA Zoning

We expect MBTA Zoning will : - destroy existing affordable housing and displace tenants - increase carbon footprint - increase taxes - increase traffic - create water problems - increase risk of historic homes being destroyed - NOT create any actually affordable housing The intention of MBTA Zoning is to comply with state law with the intent to address the "housing crisis". And to get grants. It's not clear whether the state will be able to enforce this law or whether it will be deemed unconstitutional. The state has threatened to withhold "grants" [funding] from towns that do not comply. However, the grants that would be withheld would not reduce taxes. Most of these grants don't even pay for infrastructure projects in full. While there are some benefits to these grants, it looks like it'll be less expensive to pay for things ourselves than to suffer the costs of the new building. The grants are largely for developers and infrastructure projects to support developers. The grants are very expensive. Further, it's not clear whether the state will be able to deny these grants. One of the cases that has been filed aganst MBTA Zoning is about whether the state can withhold grants based on zoning status. We will know more in the fall, and urge voters to VOTE NO! until we know if Acton will be forced to implement MBTA Zoning We agree that there is a housing crisis. But we do NOT agree that MBTA zoning will solve this crisis. We believe the crisis is a crisis of pricing, not a crisis of quantity. We do not believe that building more and more housing in a hot market like Acton will ever result in lower housing prices. See more at our Home Page on why MBTA Zoning will make affordability worse, and cause all kinds of other problems for Acton, in particular tenants along Central Street and at Dover Heights, which make up most of the land covered by the propose MBTA Zoning