Developers Seek Approval for Avalon Housing in Sudbury

The Avalon Bay project is moving forward.

Sudbury planners announced that they received an application for project eligibility to the Massachusetts Housing Partnership (MHP) for a new comprehensive permit development being proposed by Avalon Bay.

The development is planned is for an 18-acre portion of the Raytheon property at 526-528 Boston Post Road, and would make way for the construction of 250 rental units in 32 buildings, each containing between four and 16 units, and a clubhouse.

Access to the housing would be from a newly-built road stemming off of Route 20 situated across from the west side of the Shaw’s Plaza driveway.

The 40B project will contain 163 units of market rate housing, and 87 units of housing affordable to households making 80 percent of the area median income.

Preliminary site plans and building elevations have been submitted with the MHP application. The town has approximately 30 days to issue comments on the proposal to MHP as part of their review of the project for eligibility.

If MHP approves the site, the applicant is then eligible to submit an application to the Zoning Board for a Comprehensive Permit.

Photo: Avalon Bay in Northborough, by Charlene Arsenault