Marblehead Current Editorial Board

No one should have been surprised by last week’s news that the Attorney General’s Office had sued Marblehead and eight other towns in Suffolk Superior Court over their failure to comply with the MBTA Communities Act. As readers no doubt know by now, the five-year-old MBTA Communities Act, passed towards the end of Gov. Charlie Baker’s second and final term, aims to address the state’s housing shortage by requiring communities served by the MBTA to adopt a zoning district or districts in which multi-family housing…