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Millis Select Board fields broad public comment on proposed land transfer for affordable housing
Summary
At an informational hearing, the Millis Select Board heard hours of testimony for and against transferring town land (two candidate parcels) to the Millis Housing Authority to enable about 45 deeply affordable units; neighbors raised wetlands, sewer capacity, traffic and process concerns while housing advocates and some neighbors urged action to keep local residents in town.
The Millis Select Board on March 23 held an informational public hearing on a proposal to transfer town-owned land to the Millis Housing Authority (MHA) so the authority can pursue a developer and state funding to build roughly 45 affordable housing units.
MHA Executive Director Candace Avery told the board the authority operates 83 units in town and that demand is high: “Our wait list for housing is over 9,000 people deep,” she said, adding that MHA tries to prioritize local applicants. At the meeting planning-board members and other speakers cautioned that the 9,000 figure is the centralized, regional/statewide wait list; MHA also said about 94 local applicants (including veterans) were reflected as local preferences on its list during recent leasing cycles.
The board outlined two candidate parcels: the Brun property on Village Street (approximately 23.1 acres, with roughly 6.7 acres proposed for transfer) and Cassidy Farm on Exchange…
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