The primary reason why the Commie Commonwealth of Massachusetts is so completely F#$%&* UP is because for decades it has been a one-party state governed/run by incompetent DemocRAT ideologue morons unable to make it in ‘The Dreaded Private Sector.’
Don’t believe me? Then check out this 13 November 2024 letter from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (MASSEOHLC) (that name itself is a F#$%&*@ JOKE unless you’re an illegal immigrant drug-dealing rapist-murderer living off Massachusetts taxpayers by being housed and fed in a local motel or hotel by delusional DemocRAT Twit Governor Maura ‘Hold It’ Healey and her sycophant minions) to Sterling’s useless, superfluous, make-work so-called Town Planner, Stephen Wallace–
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Here’s the key language authored by one of MASSEOHLC’s resident morons, Caroline “Chris” Kluchman, Director, ‘Livable Communities Division’—
“EOHLC identified the following issues which may affect the MFOD’s compliance with Section 3A: 1.
EOHLC cautions that the definition of “Family” in Section 301-5.4 of the zoning bylaw could be construed as an impermissible cap on the number of occupants per dwelling unit. Section 3A does not allow for zoning-based caps on unit occupancy” (emphasis added).
That’s right folks, were Sterling voters ever stupid enough to approve, at a future Town Meeting, a so-called ‘MBTA Multi-Family Zoning District’ even though Mass.Gen.Laws Ch. 40A, Sec. 3A is inapplicable to the Town of Sterling because it has no land within 0.5 miles of a transit station or terminal as described in that statute set forth below, the Town of Sterling would be barred from limiting the number of occupants per dwelling unit in such a Zone. I guess craven twit Gov. Maura ‘Hold it’ Healey’s new plan is to clear illegal immigrants out of Massachusetts-taxpayer-gravy train-funded motels and hotels and cram them into MBTA Zoning District dwelling units. Ya, Ya, some more PURE F#$%ING BRILLIANCE on her part.
“Chapter 40A, Section 3A: Multi-family zoning as-of-right in MBTA communities
Section 3A. (a)(1) An MBTA community shall have a zoning ordinance or by-law that provides for at least 1 district of reasonable size in which multi-family housing is permitted as of right; provided, however, that such multi-family housing shall be without age restrictions and shall be suitable for families with children. For the purposes of this section, a district of reasonable size shall: (i) have a minimum gross density of 15 units per acre, subject to any further limitations imposed by section 40 of chapter 131 and title 5 of the state environmental code established pursuant to section 13 of chapter 21A; and (ii) be located not more than 0.5 miles from a commuter rail station, subway station, ferry terminal or bus station, if applicable.
[ Subsection (b) effective until May 30, 2023. For text effective May 30, 2023, see below.]
(b) An MBTA community that fails to comply with this section shall not be eligible for funds from: (i) the Housing Choice Initiative as described by the governor in a message to the general court dated December 11, 2017; (ii) the Local Capital Projects Fund established in section 2EEEE of chapter 29; or (iii) the MassWorks infrastructure program established in section 63 of chapter 23A.
[ Subsection (b) as amended by 2023, 7, Sec. 152 effective May 30, 2023. See 2023, 7, Sec. 298. For text effective until May 30, 2023, see above.]
(b) An MBTA community that fails to comply with this section shall not be eligible for funds from: (i) the Housing Choice Initiative as described by the governor in a message to the general court dated December 11, 2017; (ii) the Local Capital Projects Fund established in section 2EEEE of chapter 29; (iii) the MassWorks infrastructure program established in section 63 of chapter 23A, or (iv) the HousingWorks infrastructure program established in section 27 of chapter 23B.
[ Subsection (c) effective until May 30, 2023. For text effective May 30, 2023, see below.]
(c) The department of housing and community development, in consultation with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, shall promulgate guidelines to determine if an MBTA community is in compliance with this section.
[ Subsection (c) as amended by 2023, 7, Sec. 153 effective May 30, 2023. See 2023, 7, Sec. 298. For text effective until May 30, 2023, see above.]
(c) The executive office of housing and livable communities, in consultation with the executive office of economic development, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, shall promulgate guidelines to determine if an MBTA community is in compliance with this section.”
As you can see, Mass.Gen.Laws Ch. 40A, Sec. 3A refers EXPLICITLY to “multi-family housing” BUT Ms. Kluchman and MASSEOHLC are SO WARPED AND INTELLECTUALY DISHONEST that they disregard outright that clear language and would bar the Town of Sterling from determining just what constitutes a ‘family’ for purposes of ‘Multi-family housing’ units. That’s the kind of totalitarian double-speak absolute insanity that the late, great George Orwell warned all of us about but that is so prevalent in DemocRAT-dominated Massachusetts.
The intelligent, honest and sane among us–apparently a minority in the Town of Sterling now given the fact that lying airhead Komrad Kamala Harris’s Sterling voters outnumbered Trump voters by about 200–hope that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Attorney General vs. Town of Milton et al.— Mass Appellate Courts – Public Case Search –rules that the MASSEOHLC’s so-called ‘MBTA Zoning Guidelines’ are ultra vires and unenforceable as being in outright derogation of the clear statutory language and having been issued without following requirements set forth in the Massachusetts Administrative Procedure Act.
Stay tuned.
J.G.
STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH 