LOWELL About a dozen Billerica residents sat in the courtroom gallery in Middlesex Superior Court Monday afternoon in the first hearing for a lawsuit against the Billerica Select Board in response to the board’s decision to reject a petition to put the controversial town center rehabilitation project to a townwide vote.
BILLERICA A lawsuit was filed against the Billerica Select Board Monday in response to the board’s Oct. 26 vote to reject a petition that would have triggered a townwide vote on the controversial town center project.
Residents filled the seats in the Select Board meeting room in Billerica’s Town Hall Nov. 6, and many sounded off against the board during the first opportunity for public comment since the board voted 3-2 Oct. 26 to reject a petition to bring the town center project to a town wide vote.
BY TUESDAY at 8 p.m., when the polls close in Lowell, the 2023 election for the City Council and School Committee races will be over, and a new era of governing in the city will begin in January 2024.
Some residents have been expressing outrage after the Billerica Select Board voted 3-2 to reject a petition with at least 2,299 signatures after a campaign to put the $20 million town center project to a town wide vote after it had narrowly been approved at the fall Town Meeting.