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.

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.