The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council has sued the city and a developer to try to block a high-end condo development at the former site of the Home for Little Wanderers.
The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council has responded to a developer’s motion to dismiss the council’s lawsuit, which attempts to block a 196-unit development at 161 S. Huntington Ave., the former site of the Home for Little Wanderers. In the opposition, filed in Suffolk Superior Court against developer Boston Residential Group and the city Zoning Board of Appeal, the council argues that the defendant’s claim that the council cannot sue because it is not a municipal board is not true. The document, signed by council chair Benjamin Day and council lawyer and member Jeffrey Wiesner, asserts that, according to the city zoning code, a group that has responsibility for zoning matters can be considered a municipal board and that the council is …
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The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council filed a lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court last week to try to block the development planned for 161 S. Huntington Ave.
The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council is intent on stopping the development at the former site of the Home for Little Wanderers. JPNC has filed a lawsuit alleging the Boston Zoning Board of Appeal should not have approved necessary variances, which would allow the 169-apartment project to take place. At a November meeting, JPNC member Joseph Wight said the site at 161 S. Huntington Ave. is going to have 60 or 70 units per acre at a site only zoned for 16. Originally, JPNC drafted an open letter to the ZBA explaining their displeasure with the process. Now, they’ve taken it a step further. Do you want to see the development go up as planned, or was JPNC right to file the lawsuit?
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Damian Fabia
3:44 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Good lord here we ago again.......reminds me of all of the hoopla around Whole Foods coming into JP. God forbid we have a nice new building that would attract more middle class people into the community and probably be better for the local economy.. more ›