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MBTA Communities working group urges Duxbury to pass overlay zoning at June 16 special town meeting while pursuing lawsuit
Summary
A working group presenting to the Duxbury School Committee outlined a two‑track approach to the state'mandated MBTA Communities Act: propose an overlay that limits new development to already dense sites and preserve eligibility for state grants, while the town pursues litigation seeking an exemption or relief.
Megan Driscoll, a member of Duxbury's MBTA Communities Working Group, told the School Committee the group will ask voters at the June 16 special town meeting to approve an overlay zoning plan required by the MBTA Communities Act that the group says would locate the town's 50 acres of required multifamily zoning over already dense properties so the zoning would not create material new building potential.
The working group presented the overlay proposal and its broader strategy Thursday night: prepare a zoning bylaw that satisfies the state law while simultaneously pursuing litigation challenging the law's application to towns like Duxbury. "We're going to try to be compliant and we're going to try to fight the law at the best we can," Driscoll said.
The nut graf: Duxbury faces a mid‑July deadline from the state to adopt MBTA Communities zoning. Committee members heard the working group's reasoning for…
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