Royal Crest Developer Cuts Proposed Housing Units By 20%

NORTH ANDOVER, MA — The developer behind the proposed Royal Crest Estates redesign reduced their proposed housing total by 20 percent.

Responding to resident complaints about density, building heights and other issues, the developer told the Planning Board Tuesday that they had cut 63 proposed townhouse units, 100 age-restricted 55+ units and 169 multifamily units from the proposal.

The new version would result in 1,309 units, down from 1,641 in the original proposal.

Currently, the 50-year-old property has 588 units.

The cuts do not affect the 385 proposed mixed-income units that count toward the town's 40B metrics or the 250 student units.

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