MASS GOP: BEATING THE SAME DEAD HORSES!
THE COMMONWEALTH BEACON WROTE ABOUT ANOTHER CHALLENGE TO THE CHARLIE BAKER'S MBTA COMMUNITIES ACT....CLEARLY EXPLAINED: MBTA Communities fight heads back to the SJC December 18, 2025 By Jennifer Smith The deadline for the final batch of communities to submit plans on how they expect to boost multifamily housing near transit is now just two weeks away, but the controversial MBTA Communities housing law saga will drag into 2026. Most cities and towns, the state housing office regularly emphasizes, have gotten on board and submitted plans to zone for a district of multifamily housing near MBTA service areas, as called for in the 2021 law. But a group of holdouts is banking on the very court that declared the legislation mandatory – and enforceable – in January to rule that the mandate is illegal without dedicated funding included in the law. Marshfield was one of a bundle of towns that wanted a Plymouth County Superior Court judge to declare they cann...
