Despite selectmen calling another affordable-housing project in a single-family home neighborhood not an ideal scenario, they approved on 4-1 vote a 40B Local Initiative Project agreement -- which will bring up to 179 units and more than $1 million in mitigation to the town. If they had rejected the Alpine Village agreement, a proposal at the corner of Alpine Street and Boston Road in North Billerica, then the town would have lost out on mitigation and the developer could have built a much denser apartment complex.
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