Needham voters have soundly rejected new zoning meant to allow more housing development, just a week after the Supreme Judicial Court upheld a law requiring them to do so. The zoning would have gone ...

Needham, categorized as a commuter rail community because of its four stations on the Needham Line, was required to approve and submit a zoning map to the state by Dec. 31, 2024.

In a closely watched special election Tuesday night, Needham voted to repeal new zoning that would have made the town compliant with a controversial Massachusetts law that aims to create more ...

Many business owners are advocating in favor of the plan. Dan Goodman, a Needham resident for 20 years who started his smart home technology company there 14 years ago, knows how hard it is to ...

NEEDHAM — Voters in Needham Tuesday soundly rejected a plan that would have paved the way for the production of more multifamily housing in this suburban town of 32,000 and aligned it with a ...

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.

Voters in Needham Tuesday repealed state-mandated zoning that would have paved the way for more housing, sending town leaders back to square one to comply with the MBTA Communities Act.

Voters in Needham, Massachusetts, rejected a plan that would have added re-zoned areas for new multifamily housing and bring the town into compliance with the MBTA Communities Act. The special ...