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Attorney General Andrea Campbell escalated a state dispute with Milton to Massachusetts’ highest court, where she asked a judge to force the town to come into compliance by zoning at least one district for multi-family housing.
The suit, filed Tuesday, makes good on Campbell's threat to take legal action on the town for failing to comply with the law, which requires communities to allow for more housing near MBTA services.
Milton now faces the politically delicate task of writing yet another new zoning plan, while living under legal limbo for violating the state’s most ambitious housing law in decades.
Milton is sharply split on a sweeping new zoning plan designed to loosen the grip of single-family housing on the proudly residential suburb. It is a vote that will reverberate far beyond the town borders.
Voters in Milton will go to the polls Feb. 13 to decide the fate of a land-use plan adopted in December to satisfy the town’s legal obligations under the MBTA Communities Act.