Chapter 40B has some local leaders and lawmakers calling for reform – but Boston.com readers aren’t so sure.
One of the state’s most entrenched (albeit contentious) affordable housing statutes has some local leaders and lawmakers calling for reform – but Boston.com readers aren’t so sure.
At a Charles River Regional Chamber event at the end of May, Congressman Jake Auchincloss suggested Governor Maura Healey could unilaterally alter Chapter 40B regulations, specifically the “safe harbor” threshold that protects certain communities from the law’s impact.
Having the governor alter the law would, he made clear, be “a nuclear option,” but it “would be the kind of stick that could galvanize more local action.” And, it’s not entirely unheard of…