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Wellesley Fire Chief Richard DeLorie Wins Regional Leadership Award
Chief DeLorie honored with Theodore Mann Award at MAPC Annual Meeting in Boston For Immediate Release: Wednesday, June 5, 2019 Amanda LinehanCommunications DirectorMetropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC)617-933-0705alinehan@mapc.org BOSTON – Wellesley Fire Chief Richard DeLorie received the Theodore Mann Regional Leadership Award at the Annual Meeting of the Metropolitan Area Planning […]
Read MoreStudy: Local Zoning Rules Block Multi-Family Housing in MA
Cities & towns making it difficult to build housing even amid housing shortage and affordability crisis, research finds Boston – Over the past 15 years, despite many changes in local zoning, it remains difficult if not impossible to build multi-family housing in cities and towns across Metro Boston, according to […]
Read MoreHelp Plan for Duxbury’s Future!
Join us for a public forum on Tuesday, March 26, 2019 to help put the finishing touches on the town’s next master plan, “Envision Duxbury.”
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Metro Mayors Coalition urges Legislature to act quickly on improving education funding formula
Metro Mayors Coalition urges Legislature to act quickly on improving education funding formula For immediate release: Tuesday, March 5, 2019 BOSTON – Mayors and managers from 15 cities and towns in Greater Boston’s urban core today joined together to urge the Legislature to move quickly on significant overhaul of the […]
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Statement of the Metro Mayors Coalition on the Governor’s Housing Bill
Statement of the Metro Mayors Coalition on the Governor’s Housing Choice Bill The Boston region is in the midst of a housing crisis. The communities of the Metro Mayors Coalition represent over 1.4 million constituents in the urban core of Metropolitan Boston. Sale prices and rents in our communities […]
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Amanda Linehan
Communications Director
617-933-0705
alinehan@mapc.org
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