Three residents (representing two households) who live near the Dunstan East mixed-use development project in West Newton filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Massachusetts Superior Court to appeal the Newton Zoning Board of Appeals comprehensive permit for the 40B project. Newton Patch reports.
 
| Newton MA News and Politics BlogAs always seems to be the case in these situations, opponents say they don’t object to development, just this development
 
Nor do they make a case that the project violates 40B, which to this layperson seems like the only plausible path towards prevailing in court. 
 
Dunstan East  would transform a dilapidated block in West Newton into 234 desperately-needed apartments (59 permanently affordable) along with 8,500 square feet of ground floor commercial and retail space and 290-underground parking spaces.
 
As part of the project Mark Development agreed to provide $3.4 million in community benefits, including a major clean-up and other improvements (including a boardwalk) to the unsightly Cheese Cake Brook, an affordability subsidy, energy efficiency enhancements, needed bus shelters and other transportation improvements, plus a sewer upgrade.