Given the dramatic increase in softwood lumber prices, builders should consider adding an escalation clause to contracts in order to address unexpected price increases in building materials. Lumber prices have…
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Three years of advocacy by Governor Baker, Lt. Gov. Polito, Housing and Economic Secretary Kennealy, and lobbying by the HBRAMA, came to fruition on January 14 when the governor signed…
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In two separate cases, two Land Court judges recently held that the cost of educating school-age children who might move into newly constructed housing units is not a valid ground…
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Just two weeks after Governor Baker vetoed an omnibus bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and advance the development of clean energy, the Legislature re-enacted it and sent it back…
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One day after hearing oral argument in the case of Murchison v. Zoning of Sherborn Board of Appeals (SJC-12867), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed that an abutter must suffer…
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