I hope polar is aware of this this drama and how much us masshole redditors love them.

This is dumb.

The densities required (15 units/acre) hardly fall under enormous and there are a lot of people working from home now.

Making some areas require zoning that allows 15 units per acre is not even close to building up like Boston. A big change from some suburban areas that have 1 acre zoning? Yes. Boston like density? Definitely not.

He probably is, which is why we don’t hear from him otr.

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I've heard of people in Somerville raising chickens at home!

The development amounts required by this law are about the farthest from dense you can get. It's only 15 units per acre. See the images in this link to get an idea of what that density means:

https://mrsc.org/stay-informed/mrsc-insight/april-2017/visualizing-compatible-density

That is an excellent suggestion I didn't even check to see if there was a Worcester subreddit. Thanks!

If you are living in MA and spend most of your time in MA, the car must be registered in MA. Most importantly, not doing so is actually a form of insurance fraud and could result in your insurance being dropped.

Thanks for those recommendations I'll check them out!

Why is it Boston proper’s job to house everybody?

Why do surubanites feel so entitled to live right next to a major city, but to not have to live near other people?

Your suburb doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

Exactly. How is more people riding the solution here? This also reeks of the "Olympic solution," they floated a few years back. "If we hold the Olympics, the MBTA will be forced to get better."

These people are sociopaths.

Also, I assure you, every single one of them drives to work.

Wow! That's a thing?!

I love the vagueness of this post too. Anyone with a backyard could pretty easily have a chicken coop.

Proof that this is a rural town simply incapable of supporting a couple apartment complexes is that they have a few chickens and they live next to a farm. Sure, this could be the far flung frontiers settled sparsely by rugged, independent frontier-farmers, or just some suburb that allows backyard chicken coops. There are towns within the 495 belt that allow chickens for Christ's sake, this is a meaningless claim about rural living.

If this area is as rural and farm focused as claimed I very much doubt there's any real market interest in intense housing development. Somehow I doubt this is quite the pastoral community as being described.

The septic excuse is a time honored nimby cop-out. Refuse to build sewer systems then cite the inherent limitations of septic systems to impede further development.

This is a good thing because it will cause even more wealthy people to flee the state…and further erode the tax base. 😀👍🏼

No, absolutely not sad and he had an amazing sense of humor.

Sad is the last adjective I would use to describe him.

Oh yeah, it’s my native land. I had the misfortune of working during the storm last week.

This was Old West Shaft rd that night.

While looking at my photo roll I found photos I took of the fire in Williamstown while out on a job, weird few days.

And I will never understand their snobbery. They are rich, for the area, and have a college. Oh wow, so special, us plebes should bask in their glory. Dumbasses, you’re in the Berkshires and suck just like the rest of us. You just get to do it with a bit more income.

Only a little salty and done with their shit.

Literally just a “not in MY backyard” argument

Developers aren’t going to start massive housing projects where there isn’t sewage or water available. If your town is at sewage capacity than the simple solution for everyone would be to increase sewage capacity instead of limiting housing development.

There is no reason to live in Charlemont.

No interstate, no college. No downtown. No housing. No jobs.

I vote to have u/ky1e to be next MBTA general manager

He handed out dreams like candy

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Got mine at Market Basket in Oxford

From what I understand, the recently ousted mods of this subreddit had lived no more than 6 months in Mass.