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Mass. celebrates win in MBTA Communities ruling

An MBTA commuter rail station on the Hamilton/Wenham line. Both North Shore communities fought a state zoning law making it easier to build multifamily zoning.

A Superior Court judge has ruled in the state’s favor in a lawsuit filed by nine Massachusetts towns that looked to not have to abide by a law requiring denser residential zoning in communities with MBTA transit access.

The ruling on Friday dismissed the lawsuit by Duxbury, Weston and other towns that hoped to have the MBTA Communities law ruled as an “unfunded mandate,” among other complaints, and one whose requirements they wouldn’t need to meet.

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