71 Sandy Pond Rd. — Jamie N. Atkins Trust to Jisuo Jiang and Yangcai Li for $1,598,000 (August 29) 11 Farrar Rd. — Norma Barkamian to Marlen Morgus and Benjamin Bolotin for $1,760,000 (August 23) 73 Old County Rd. — Janna P.Hadley Trust to Dabid Barron and Kristin Budde for $900,000 (August 7) 66 and…
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New HCA options would move some allowed units from south to north Lincoln
Editor’s note: this article was amended on October 26 to include mention of the upcoming public forums. Faced with a torrent of protest over the “Lincoln Station only” option for allowing multifamily housing, town officials discussed three more options that include subdistricts in north Lincoln and fewer units allowed around the train station. The Housing…
New Housing Choice Act options to be presented on Oct. 24
Town officials will review two new Housing Choice Act rezoning options at a Planning Board meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 24. The town has already forwarded Option C — which clusters all the rezoned subdistricts in South Lincoln — to the state for a pre-adoption compliance check. But at a well-attended multiboard meeting on October 10,…
My Turn: Rally highlights opposition to Hanscom proposal
By Trish O’Hagan and Alex Chatfield Lincolnites were out in force at a State House rally that one of us (Alex) MC’d on Monday, Oct. 2 and took part in presenting Gov. Maura Healey with a petition opposing private jet expansion at Hanscom Field or any airport. Over 10,000 Massachusetts residents from around the state…
The Commons returns with another expansion proposal
The Commons in Lincoln is proposing to add 28 independent living units to its campus, down from 47 it sought in 2022. The earlier proposal was withdrawn in February 2023 after vehement protest from current Commons residents, who said they were blindsided by the plan and wanted significant input on how (or even if) to…
Third multifamily rezoning option omits North Lincoln
Thanks to a change in state guidelines for complying with the Housing Choice Act, Lincoln now has the option of creating a single multifamily district around the train station without involving parts of North Lincoln — unless residents decide they want to rezone those areas. Residents will see three rezoning options at the State of…
Property sales in July 2023
15 Oak Meadow Rd. — Sean Crovetti to Taylor Ortiz and Veronica Lei for $1,407,500 (July 31) 5 Red Maple Lane — John P. Neri Trust to Xida Sun and Yuan Zhao for $895,000 (July 26) 11 Sunnyside Lane — Chung Yao Chao to Brett Cramp and Maria Obolensky for $961,000 (July 25) 154 Chestnut…
Property sales in May 2023
8C North Commons — Shanshan Yue to Aditi Agashe and Radhakrishnan Srinivasan for $445,000 (May 30) 82 Virginia Rd. #A102 — Anne Coyle to Harold Posgate for $216,706 (May 31) 47 Deerhaven Rd. — Thomas Griggs Jr. to Clary Realty Trust for $1,100,000 (May 1) 24 Sandy Pond Rd. — Geoffrey Hargreaves Heald to Douglas…
New zoning option includes more South Lincoln land
To comply with the Housing Choice Act, town officials are considering a new multifamily zoning district in addition to those that were previously examined after consultants refocused on the village center in response to feedback at two public forums on June 16 and June 20. The HCA requires Lincoln to approve new zoning that would…
Property sales in April 2023
140 Lincoln Rd. #111 — Correia Family Limited Partnership to Elizabeth Szekely for $575,000 (April 29) 38 Lincoln Rd. — Matthew Cummings to Thomas and Hayley Wilcox for $1,623,000 (April 28) 110 Concord Rd. — Frank Forti to MDEpaula LLC for $780,000 (April 21) 80 Trapelo Rd. — Anthony Buendia to Kevin Kingman and Abigail…