A proposal for an affordable housing complex on a swath of open space in the northeast corner of Belmont, MA, does not violate environmental standards and would not significantly impact wildlife habitats, the Department of Environmental Protection said last week.
The recommendation, likely to be the basis for a final decision in the coming weeks, reaffirms a previous DEP ruling that Pennsylvania-based O’Neill Properties’ plan to build a 299-unit housing complex meets environmental standards. Beverly Coles-Roby, the DEP’s presiding officer in the case wrote that environmental expert witnesses testifying for O’Neill Properties "made a particularly striking impression [with] the compilation of numerous reports based on calculations accepted as standard industry practice.”
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