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Swampscott selectmen question safety of Glover House property
Call for inspection comes after the Jan. 26 basement fire
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The Swampscott Board of Selectmen has asked local public safety officials to determine whether or not the town should condemn potentially unsafe structures on the old General Glover House site after a small fire broke out on the town-deemed blighted property.
Selectmen’s informal charge follows more than a year’s worth of enforcement actions from the office of the Swampscott Building Commissioner to force the property’s owner, Sunbeam Development Limited Partnership (Sunbeam), to put the rundown commercial property, 299 Salem St., in compliance with Swampscott’s blighted property bylaw.
The Town of Bourne and the Massachusetts Maritime Academy have reached agreement on a draft document to share resources. The memorandum of understanding, or MOU, between the two entities includes residential use of academy parking lot space and town use of office space in one of the academyâs Main Street buildings.
The agreement also includes assurance from the academy that it will not resort to eminent domain to obtain additional property for its campus.
The MOU was discussed during the Bourne Board of Selectmenâs remote meeting on Tuesday, February 2. Rear Admiral Francis X. McDonald and Vice President of Operations Captain Allen G. Metcalfe Jr. represented Mass Maritime during the meeting.
Elm Place proposal gets thumbs down from Swampscott selectmen
128-unit residential building too large for site
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The Swampscott Board of Selectmen has chosen not to support WinnCompanies’ 128-unit housing development proposed for the town, voting to express its opposition to the residential project’s current iteration in a so-called site-eligibility letter to the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development.
The selectmen’s site-eligibility letter to the state comes as WinnDevelopment undertakes a process to obtain a Chapter 40B comprehensive permit and state financing to construct the 152,000-square-foot building with 109 parking spaces at 21 Elm Place.