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The lawsuit has prompted the Massachusetts School Building Authority, which was paying some $118 million of the $375 million project, to pause payments. (Jenna Fisher/Patch)
WALTHAM, MA — A group of abutters to the new high school project under construction filed a lawsuit in the Middlesex Superior Court in December accusing the Waltham Zoning Board of Appeals of improperly approving zoning variances and the city of violating private property rights.
The lawsuit has prompted the Massachusetts School Building Authority, which was paying some $118 million of the $375 million project, to pause payments.
"In accordance with MSBA policy, and pursuant to section 4.13 of the Project Funding Agreement for the Project... the MSBA is placing reimbursements for the Waltham High School project on hold at this time because of the Pending Litigation," MSBA Executive Director John McCarthy told Mayor Jeannette McCarthy in a letter dated Jan. 14, obtained by Patch.