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Danvers residents press planning board to revisit zoning changes, urge master plan
Summary
Residents who filed three citizens petitions at the May town meeting urged the Danvers Planning Board to study recent zoning changes tied to MBTA-related legislation, raise concerns about density and traffic, and explore a townwide master plan.
The Danvers Planning Board on Aug. 12 heard about three citizens petitions presented at the town’s May 2025 town meeting asking the board and other town bodies to reconsider or study recent zoning changes tied to state MBTA-related legislation.
The petitions — according to presenters at the planning board meeting — ranged from a request to rescind the town’s MBTA-related zoning changes to a request for a study into the impacts the petitioners said residents were seeing from higher-density development. The petitions were defeated at town meeting, presenters said, and they came to the planning…
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