Communities across eastern Massachusetts are under pressure to rezone parts of town to allow more multi-family housing near public transportation, thanks to the MBTA Communities Act. Aimed at ...

Since the MBTA Communities Act was passed in 2021 ... The law does require the multi-family zoning district to be a “neighborhood-scale district, not a single development site,” according ...

Healey is taking Campbell’s side, that the MBTA Communities Act is not an unfunded mandate. The governor said in a statement Friday that 119 communities have already adopted zoning under the law.

Gov. Maura Healey says she doesn’t want to see Massachusetts cities and towns “penalized” because of the controversial MBTA zoning law but is not backing away from withholding grants from ...