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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.

We have heard that there may be an effort to AMEND the MBTA proposal at Town Meeting

See our illustration [below] of what we expect to happen to modest income homes [like those on Central Street, River Street, etc], if the MBTA and/or SAV zoning passes. There is an idea that we "could" amend the proposal to be "more than the required 10% affordable", and make it 15% like the state has already approved for another town. OR even make it 20%! The idea is that the state would be under pressure to approve, if another [or more towns!] also pushed back on the level of affordability. So we hope you vote YES! on such an amendment. But of course, we hope you will vote NO! on an unamended MBTA Zoning proposal. It's not only NOT affordable, but it would destroy existing "naturally affordable housing". See below for our explanation
We went parcel by parcel to examine the expected impact on each parcel of land. Here is our illustration of what what we believe is likely to happen on each one acre parcel. We believe these "naturally occuring affordable housing units" will be destroyed under MBTA and SAV Zoning. Many of these smaller homes have tenants living in them. These tenants are not likely to remain if the zoning allows the owner to make millions by selling to developers. It will NOT be affordable and NOT inclusive, especially since a significant number of these existing naturally affordable homes already have diverse families living in them. Please do not believe that ANY of the small parcels will have ANY affordable housing. They will build 8 or 9 units per acre to avoid having to build 10% affordable units.

AND tenants

in these small houses and duplexes

will have increased displacement risk!

Even if it WAS more affordable or even AS affordable where will the tenants live in the meantime?


VOTE NO! for MBTA/SAV Zoning!

to save affordable housing!

Here is another example: