Affordable Housing & Recreation Land in Boxford

According to the Tri-Town Transcript, the next Boxford Town Meeting in May will look at three proposed land division articles put forth from the Haynes Land Advisory Committee.  The proposal, which also already gone through an informal process with the Conservation Commission, is asking Boxford voters to officially split the 75-acres of land into a passive recreation parcel, an active recreation parcel, and an affordable housing parcel. Boxford town officials first proposed the separate articles after a joint article narrowly failed approval during the last fall Town Meeting.

If approved, the warrant article asking to designate nearly 26 acres of the Haynes land as a recreation parcel would place the piece of land in the custody of the Boxford Athletic Association. The article asking for the splitting of conservation land would put the parcel in the custody of the Boxford Trails Association/Boxford Open Land Trust. The 13-acre housing parcel would stay under the control of the Selectmen.

Read the entire Tri-Town Transcript article.