Lynnfield Restricting Adult Communities

Lynnfield may be the only town resticting an adult community to 60 years old or older. Due to its present agreement with the Lynnfield Intervention for the Elderly the two subsidized elder housing facilities have seniority lists for 60 years an older. In the past few years Lynnfield has been involved in the building of several adult communities. Heritage Woods is now complete and is selling upscale market rate condominiums to the 60 and over crowd. The upscale condos are selling slowly and the developers are anxious to present the question of lowering the adult community age requirement. Although the question was to be asked at last Monday's Town Meeting, the question was removed at the last minute due to the required 2 years since last voted when the developer was starting the project. Question will be moved to the Fall Town Meeting in October, it appears that LIFE administrators feel that the change would not affect adversely the town's elderly community.