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Council authorizes affordable housing settlement step to resolve fourth-round obligation
Summary
The Town Council authorized counsel to settle a procedural dispute with state officials so Westfield can move forward in the fourth-round affordable housing compliance process.
The Westfield Town Council on March 31 approved a resolution authorizing the town's affordable housing counsel to sign a settlement agreement related to the state's fourth-round (Round 4) affordable housing compliance process.
A council member described the authorization as a procedural step necessary to resolve a technical dispute with the Department of Community Affairs about the town's preliminary obligation numbers and to avoid builder's-remedy litigation that could allow out-of-scale development. The council member…
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