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LWVN Requests a Review of the City’s Comprehensive Plan

On January 19, 2022, LWVN sent a letter to the Mayor and the City Council urging them to convene a Comprehensive Plan Committee, and fund a consultant to work with such committee in Fiscal Year 2023, to review and update the City’s Comprehensive Plan.  The Comprehensive Plan was first adopted in 2007, and since then has had only one minor modification in 2011.

Read the entirety of the letter below and the reasons LWVN believes the Comprehensive Plan is long overdue for a review.

LWVN Comprehensive Plan Request

LWVN Provides its Recommendations Regarding West Armory Proposals

On December 1, 2021, President Marcia Johnson sent a letter to Mr. Eamon Bencivengo, Housing Development Planner and the City’s Department of Planning & Development, on behalf of LWVN, expressing its preference for the Caritas Communities proposal for the redevelopment of the West Newton Armory.  T he Caritas proposal provides the most units at the lowest Area Median Income and will serve the chronically homeless, a population that is currently underserved by Newton’s housing stock.

Read the entirety of the letter, and other recommendations made by LWVN below.

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