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Southborough adopts 2025–2030 housing production plan; select board reappoints two trust members
Summary
The town's Affordable Housing Trust presented a draft housing production plan and won approval from the Planning Board and Select Board. The plan sets a five-year target of 255 homes and requests joint action on removing a 55+ cap in the fall town meeting.
Southborough's Affordable Housing Trust presented a draft 2025'to'2030 housing production plan Monday night and both the town's Planning Board and Select Board voted to approve and adopt the plan.
The plan, prepared with consultant CommunityScale, recommends a numerical target of 255 homes over five years (51 per year), including 28 units that would count on the state Subsidized Housing Inventory. The plan highlights large increases in typical home prices since 2010 and details nine goals with aligned implementation strategies, the trust said.
Why it matters: an approved and state'endorsed housing production plan can produce a temporary "safe harbor" that gives local permitting boards legal support to deny new Chapter 40B comprehensive permit projects for a limited period if the town is making demonstrable progress toward production goals.
Doug Mann, chair of the Affordable Housing Trust, opened the presentation and introduced Ellen Myra and CommunityScale consultant Sarah Brent McCoy,…
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