Needham became the latest Massachusetts suburb to shoot down a controversial state-mandated MBTA zoning plan, but its Select Board chairman says the town won’t follow in Milton’s footsteps.

GOOD MORNING. TOWN LEADERS PUT FORWARD AN AMBITIOUS PLAN TO TRY TO MEET THE STATE’S MBTA COMMUNITIES ACT. BUT RESIDENTS HERE IN NEEDHAM SAY THAT THE TOWN NEEDS TO PULL BACK ON THAT PLAN A BIT.

The suburb became the latest to rebuff a controversial state housing law. The town will now have until July to craft a new ...

Voters in Needham Tuesday repealed state-mandated zoning that would have paved the way for more housing, sending town leaders back to square one to comply with the MBTA Communities Act.

Opponents of Needham’s plan to allow more multifamily housing under the MBTA Communities law have defeated the measure in a town-wide referendum. While the results are not yet official ...

Shrewsbury voters upheld the town’s MBTA Communities zoning that was passed last year, keeping the town in compliance with ...

In a previous Special Town Meeting in October, the Town of Needham had adopted new zoning by-laws to comply with the MBTA Communities Act, which requires 177 communities near T and Commuter Rail ...

Needham families and others are paying for more ... finally spur those residents who’ve been wary of complying with the MBTA Act that this is an important part of the ongoing solution to the ...

To vote “no” would be to reject that plan, and risk pushing Needham out of compliance with the MBTA Communities law, which requires cities and towns served by the T to make it easier to build ...

By Lenny Strauss Hometown Weekly Reporter On Tuesday, January 14th, Needham residents voted in a special election to decide whether to enact a zoning plan that if implemented, would see the town as ...

A person who was stuck under a train at the North Shore station in Boston was rescued on Monday, resulting in the temporary ...