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Tenants and ZBA clash over Pine Grove mobile-home variances; board declines permits
Summary
After hours of testimony from tenants and park managers, Peabody's Zoning Board of Appeals declined variance requests to place two new mobile homes at Pine Grove Mobile Home Park, citing unresolved health and safety concerns raised by residents and the Board of Health.
PEABODY, Mass. — On Oct. 20, 2025, the Peabody Zoning Board of Appeals declined a request to grant variances that would have allowed two replacement mobile homes at Pine Grove Mobile Home Park, 261 Newbury St., after tenants and a board member described ongoing sanitary and safety problems at the park.
The vote came after residents, represented at the meeting by the tenant association, urged the board to deny the requests while criminal sanitary-violation proceedings and outstanding Board of Health orders remain unresolved. Deborah Bingle, a Pine Grove resident and tenant association trustee, read the association’s written objections and told the board the group “ask that the zoning appeals board deny the zoning of variance appeals before you this evening” and said the community is seeking enforcement of existing violation orders rather than approval of new placements.
The tenant association’s statement, read aloud at the hearing, said in part: “Paglia and Dakotas do not have a valid…
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