Even an executive of City Realty Group was shocked by how easily a rezoning vote sailed through the Brookline annual town meeting last week.
On Thursday, the town approved the Chestnut Hill Commercial Area Study by a 217-20 margin, easily exceeding the needed two-thirds threshold, Bisnow reported. The passage isn’t the final step in the process, but clears the path towards a major development in the Boston suburb.
“I felt pretty good, but I wasn’t expecting it to that extent, certainly,” chief development officer Clifford Kensington told the publication…