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Town staff says Lakeville in housing 'safe harbor' after state certification; board debates 40B implications
Summary
Town planning staff told the Zoning Board on Oct. 16 that Lakeville has received housing-production-plan certification from the state and is in a two-year safe harbor after surpassing the 10% affordable-housing threshold.
The Town of Lakeville received a housing production plan certification from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities and, as staff reported at the Oct. 16 Zoning Board meeting, the town has exceeded the 10% affordable-housing threshold required for a two-year "safe harbor."
"The town received it for the record ... we have hit our 10%. We are just over 11%," the planning staff member told the board, adding that the town is in safe harbor for two years from the February date the inventory reached the threshold.
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