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Sullivan's Permitting & Land Use Practice Group and Litigation Department have released the second issue of their Zoning and Development Newsletter. The publication aims...

READING - With the petitioner’s architect pledging to preserve the historic character of the building and confer with neighbors about other design details, the Community Planning and Development Commission (CPDC)

READING - In a plan submitted some five months after the town declined an opportunity to buy the vacant drugstore, the North American Foundation of Islamic Services recently unveiled a

WOBURN - The City Council for the second straight occasion took no action on a special permit request to covert the old China Pearl restaurant by the Woburn Village site

The court found while the RV park is not intrinsically religious, the court has taken the broad view that the RV park facilitates the religious purpose of Hume NE camp by house the families and staff that attend and operate the religious camp.

Caritas Communities wants to replace two homes with a 34-unit building of efficiency apartments on Winter Street.

Officials with Oak Bluffs and Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School say that the attorneys with the school have presented a possible settlement over the turf field lawsuit. Ewell Hopkins, chair of the Oak Bluffs Planning Board, and Robert Lionnette, chair of the MVRHS school committee, both confirmed that there is a settlement proposal on the […]

A week after West Tisbury voters opted not to approve the town’s share of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s (MVRHS) budget for the upcoming fiscal year, Chilmark officials are following suit. At a Chilmark finance advisory committee meeting Thursday afternoon, committee members voted to rescind their previous recommendation to approve the town’s MVRHS budget, […]

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell’s Municipal Law Department issued a decision disapproving two sections of the Town of Wendell’s amended zoning bylaw. Attorney General Campbell has taken the position that the Dover Amendment protects battery storage systems.

On March 1, 2023, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell’s Municipal Law Department issued a decision (pdf) disapproving two sections of the Town of Wendell’s amended zoning...