AG Campbell threatens ‘legal action,’ loss of funding if Milton referendum tanks new zoning plan

Source: bostonglobe.com

Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell warned Milton officials in a strongly worded letter this week that the town could face “legal action” and lose “a wide variety of state funding” if a referendum vote next month succeeds in nullifying the town’s most ambitious zoning proposal in nearly 100 years. Voters in Milton will go to the polls Feb. 13 to decide the fate of a land-use plan adopted in December to satisfy the town’s legal obligations under the MBTA Communities Act, a law passed almost three years ago that compels communities served by the transit agency to create zoning for multifamily housing.

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