State-wide ballot question asked voters if they wanted to repeal 40B.
Arlington Population: 42,844
Symmes Advisory Committee Recommendations to Special Town Meeting recommends that the town pursue a strategy of redeveloping the site “at the lowest intensity that can accomplish, insofar as possible, the various goals, preferences and desires stated herein, including adherence to fiscal constraints.”
“Oldsmobile/Old Bile” site (Mass. Ave and Mill Street) development. After the town rejected a proposal for a chain drug store, a redevelopment of 46 units, 7 of which would have been Affordable, was proposed. After community opposition and revisions, 18 units (9 two-family houses) are built. None are Affordable.
Arlington Population: 42,389
Ballot Question 9, Massachusetts Rent Control Prohibition Initiative, prohibiting rent control for most privately owned housing units, passes 51.3% to 48.7% statewide.
Town Meeting establishes R0 districts.
Arlington Population: 44,630
Arlington commissioned a study titled Overview of Affordable Housing: Challenges and Opportunities. It noted many of the same issues we are having today: demand outstripping supply, rapidly rising home prices creating a cost burden for new homeowners, and insufficient housing choice. The report mentioned a number of possible measures to be taken including Accessory Dwelling Units, small modest housing units, smaller units and manufactured homes and home-sharing. No action appears to have been taken based on this report.
Cusack Terrace, Arlington Housing Authority’s most recently constructed property, is opened.