(Editor’s note: the headline to this story was amended on November 30. See this clarification for details.) Utile, the town’s planning consultant for Housing Choice Act rezoning, said this week that Option E would not pass muster with the state because it does not meet the law’s requirements. With Utile’s help over the last eight…
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My Turn: Look at all the options for HCA rezoning
By Peter Braun In the interest of enhancing rational discussion about the proposed rezoning options, I am repeating and elaborating on the gist of a comment I posted a couple of days ago in the Lincoln Squirrel in response to Ruth Ann Hendrickson’s article. This is not just an Option C vs. Option E debate….
Correction
In the November 22 article headlined “Panel adds fifth rezoning option after pressure from citizen group,” a quote was misattributed. It was David Cuetos, not Ben Shiller, who said, “We’re trying to avoid actively talking about the spirit of the law, because it has no real meaning when you think about it profoundly.” Cuetos then…
My Turn: In support of Option C
By Ken Hurd At one of the recent forums hosted by the HCAWG (Housing Choice Act Working Group), one particularly insightful resident posed a poignant question to the proponents of an alternative Option E. She asked, “What is it you stand for?” Although there was no immediate response, we now know the answer, according to the…
My Turn: Reject Option E if you support fairness in Lincoln
By Jonathan Soo All Lincoln residents should feel threatened by how Option E supporters changed the rules so that they could force a plan developed in secret by an unaccountable private group onto the December 2 Town Meeting ballot and making what should have been an unofficial survey into a binding vote* for the plan…
How will you vote on Saturday? Take a Lincoln Squirrel poll
How do you plan to vote on the three issues at the Special Town Meeting on Saturday, Dec. 2? Or if you don’t plan to attend, how would you have voted? If you aren’t a Lincoln Squirrel subscriber, see the item between the red stripes near the top of the right-hand sidebar on this page….
My Turn: In support of Option C and more housing at the mall
By Ruth Ann Hendrickson I support new and more affordable housing in Lincoln, and I’d like to see most of it in the area of the train station and the Lincoln Mall. I will therefore be supporting option C at the Special Town Meeting on December 2. 1. Option C is the best hope for…
Correction
In the November 22 article headlined “Panel adds fifth rezoning option after pressure from citizen group,” the Housing Choice Act Working Group vote on whether to recommend that the Select Board add Option E to the December 2 ballot was reported incorrectly. HCAWG member Kathy Shepard changed her initial vote from “abstain” to “no.” In…
My Turn: Option E and more new housing
By Lynne Smith I support new and more affordable housing in Lincoln and I’d like to see some of it developed as the town has always done it, especially at the Lincoln Mall owned by the Rural Land Foundation. I would also like to see the preservation of our small retail area and a more…
Panel adds fifth rezoning option after pressure from citizen group
(Editor’s note: this article was updated on November 26 with the correct vote totals.) Residents will have a fifth Housing Choice Act option to choose from in the vote at the Special Town Meeting on December 2 — an option that adds allowed-by-right multifamily housing in various parts of town but removes them from the…