Protect your interests with Mass Housing on the Corcorran development at Weiss Farm

Below you will find a sample letter to voice your concerns as residents of Melrose on the Commons at Weiss Farm. It is vital that the Commonwealth on a project TOO BIG for this area meets your needs and concerns.  Please let Mass Housing know your concerns and protect your interests.

Mass Housing

Gregory Watson

One Beacon Street

Boston, MA 02108

Dear Gregory Watson:

Date:

RE: New England Fund Site Approval Application (Project Eligibility) for The Commons at Weiss Farm/170 Franklin Street

Please deny project eligibility under CH 40B to the Corcoran Group.

Although this project is being built in the town of Stoneham it will create serious problems to the City of Melrose.  Franklin Street connects Melrose to Stoneham and provides an access route to the major highways of Routes 93 and 128.  Franklin St, is also a gateway to Melrose as well as Stoneham and the density of population on this street is significant in Melrose since we have single family residences, multiple dwellings, an apartment complex, the Melrose Highlands Congregational Church, the Faith Evangelical Church, the Italian -Boston Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Highlands Nursery School, and the Franklin Early Childhood Center

Corcoran has failed to address serious concerns of:

* Flooding to surrounding neighborhoods of Stoneham and Melrose

* Grave concerns of water contamination and sewerage

* Acute density of the area with pre-existing real estate

* Serious depletion of soil due to massive soil erosion from constructing buildings of these sizes

* Totally against the topography and chemistry of surrounding neighborhood

Corcoran showed up May 19th on your mandate and met with Stoneham residents but showed no intention of working with the community in creating a beneficial housing development for Stoneham, their neighbor Melrose and the Commonwealth to address the need for low-income housing.

This development does not meet the principles of CH 40 B since it violates public safety and health for both communities and prospective inhabitants of this development.

Sincerely