Affordable Housing Trust tackles Elm Street constraints, pushes Board of Selectmen for clarity.
Affordable Housing Trust · Meeting of February 9, 2026
SALISBURY — Affordable Housing Trust confronts sewer-plant constraints on flagship Elm Street property. The Board of Selectmen determined land is needed for sewer expansion and possible future Department of Public Works use, forcing the trust to identify buildable land adequately distant from the facility. Guest B.
Luster presented alternative locations and state programs for affordable housing development. N. Harrington will notify the two groups that submitted proposals for Elm Street that circumstances have changed.
The trust reported no progress on 39 Beach Road, where the Commonwealth attorney declined to modify the purchase and sales agreement, and on Habitat for Humanity housing, where deed restrictions remain unconfirmed pending legal consultation.
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Source: the Affordable Housing Trust meeting of February 9, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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