inbatteries without using a football field length of carcinogens like typical battery creation. So we’ll take it. That’s great news.” HOUSING CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Like many communities Billerica is facing the challenges of housing affordability and availability. Malgieri imparts, “Most recently, the state of Massachusetts came out with a law to try to address housing. So for any town like Billerica that has transit access to the city, we needed to put in better zoning that actually allowed for more apartments. We chose places that were next to our train station as well as next to the highway corridor, because those are the really big employment sectors where, if you want to live somewhere close to work, you want to live in one of those two areas.” 200 units of housing are currently under construction at the former Billerica Mall site, but Maynard stresses 42 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 06, ISSUE 10
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