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Plan to increase affordable housing topic of joint meeting in Easthampton
Easthampton Municipal Building, 50 Payson Avenue GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
By JACQUELYN VOGHEL
EASTHAMPTON The City Council will hold a public hearing with the Planning Board on Wednesday night to adopt a plan intended to promote housing for low-and moderate-income families and individuals, reduce housing production barriers in the city, and address local and regional housing needs.
The city last released a Housing Production Plan in 2014. But according to City Councilor Tom Peake, the council at the time did not reach many of the goals laid out in that plan. The plan, detailed in a 102-page draft document, seeks to address continuing concerns in the city surrounding affordability and housing choice.
Easthampton, Amherst to hold onto pot mitigation fees
Owner Mark Zatyrka stands at the counter inside the INSA marijuana dispensary in Easthampton in April 2019. Mayor Nicole LaChapelle said the city currently doesn’t have plans to end marijuana community impact fees. INSA, the first recreational marijuana outlet to open in Easthampton, has generated almost $1 million. STAFF FILE PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Published: 2/9/2021 7:39:49 PM
Last month, Northampton became what is likely the first community in the state to waive the impact fee that cannabis businesses are required to pay their host cities or towns.
Two other area communities with burgeoning recreational cannabis industries say they are not currently considering a similar measure, but that cannabis retailers have made significant impacts on local departments and resources.
Thousands with OUI convictions to be offered new trials over unreliable breath tests
Published: 2/8/2021 8:18:04 PM
NORTHAMPTON Thousands of people in Hampshire and Franklin counties who were convicted of drunken driving between 2011 and 2018 may soon be eligible for a second trial due to unreliable breath test results, the office of the Northwestern district attorney announced Monday.
The office will send out letters to 3,100 residents of the two counties this week notifying them of their right to challenge a conviction for operating under the influence (OUI) from this period. Statewide, an estimated 27,000 people will receive notices.
Massachusetts District Court Judge Robert Brennan determined in 2017 that blood alcohol content test devices enacted by the state’s Office of Alcohol Testing from 2011-14 did not produce scientifically reliable results, making these tests inadmissible in court. In 2019, Brennan determined that the Office of Alcohol Testing had intentionally
Thousands with OUI convictions to be offered new trials over unreliable breath tests
Modified: 2/9/2021 3:11:12 PM
NORTHAMPTON Thousands of people in Hampshire and Franklin counties who were convicted of drunken driving between 2011 and 2018 may soon be eligible for a second trial due to unreliable breath test results, the office of the Northwestern district attorney announced Monday.
The office will send out letters to 3,100 residents of the two counties this week notifying them of their right to challenge a conviction for operating under the influence (OUI) from this period. Statewide, an estimated 27,000 people will receive notices.
Massachusetts District Court Judge Robert Brennan determined in 2017 that blood alcohol content test devices enacted by the state’s Office of Alcohol Testing from 2011-14 did not produce scientifically reliable results, making these tests inadmissible in court. In 2019, Brennan determined that the Office of Alcohol Testing had intentionally w