Massachusetts fire officials express concern over new grant rules linking fire safety funding to compliance with controversial housing law.

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Fire safety grants at risk if communities don't comply with MBTA housing law: officials

Needham became the latest Massachusetts suburb to shoot down a controversial state-mandated MBTA zoning plan, but its Select Board chairman says the town won’t follow in Milton’s footsteps. Needham residents voted Tuesday to repeal zoning that would have made the Greater Boston town compliant with the MBTA Communities Act – a plan that carried much more weight than what the state law requires. “God bless, Needham, but we have to overachieve,” Se…

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Andover, North Andover, Lawrence, Methuen and Haverhill are all in compliance with MBTA Communities Act — with at least one coming in just under the wire and before this week’s

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Fire chiefs speak out about the controversial law that ties state funding to a transit, housing requirement for municipalities

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Mass. fire chiefs balk over safety grants being linked to municipal transit-oriented housing law

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Fire safety grants at risk if communities don't comply with MBTA housing law: officials

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