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Comparison Of Density
In comparing the proposed Chapter 40B Local Initiative Program (LIP) Rice Pond Village project with direct abutters, those properties within 300-feet of the proposed project site (as determined by the Millbury Assessor), the proposed Chapter 40B LIP Rice Pond Village project will have 11.8 times greater density than the existing immediate and surrounding neighborhood properties.
Comparisons Of Building Heights
The proposed Rice Pond Village project with three (3) four-story apartment buildings with 192-apartments, as being proposed by Steven F. Venincasa and James Venincasa, is simply inconsistent and out of character with the architectural typology, density and building massing, and integration into existing development patterns in the town of Millbury.
Reasoning For Medfield Meadows Denial
Medfield Meadows was a proposed Chapter 40B project (non-Local Initiative Program (LIP)) originally proposed to have 200-units on two parcels of land on both sides of North Meadows Road (Route 27) in Medfield, Massachusetts, that was scaled-down to 183-units before it was outright denied by MassHousing. It is true, not all Chapter 40B projects get approved. Below are direct excerpts from the official denial letter.
Partnering On Local Initiative Program Projects
The Town of Harvard, Massachusetts has a defined a Procedure for Partnering on Local Initiative Program (LIP) Projects, that is transparent and engages with the public. Why doesn’t Millbury have something similar?
When Town Officials Gaslight
Why then after December 27, 2023, did Mary Krumsiek, Chairperson of the Millbury Board of Selectmen and Sean Hendricks, Town Manager, tell multiple individuals in multiple separate conversations that the Chapter 40B LIP agreement was either not ready for execution, because it was still with town council or that it had not been executed?
Chapter 40B Can Be Scaled-Back Or Denied
Proposed Chapter 40B projects can be mitigated, scaled-back, and in some cases denied. Anyone who thinks that Chapter 40B projects are a given and there is nothing that you can do, simply have a defeatist mentality, and should be ignored.