Massachusetts General Laws

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 121B, § 9 (2026)

Urban renewal agencies

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Section 9. The operating agencies having the powers and subject to the limitations provided in sections forty-five to fifty-seven, inclusive, to be known as urban renewal agencies, shall be:—

(a) each redevelopment authority;

(b) each housing authority of a city or town in which no redevelopment authority has been organized; provided, however, that no housing authority shall initiate an urban renewal project until the municipal officers of a city or an annual or special town meeting shall have determined that there exists in such city or town a need for urban renewal;

(c) each housing authority of a city or town in which a redevelopment authority has been organized, but only with respect to projects initiated by such authority before the organization of a redevelopment authority and subject to section fifty-one.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 8 cases, 1972–2015 · leading case: Lafayette Place Assocs. v. Boston Redevelopment Auth., 694 N.E.2d 820 (Mass. 1998).

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Lafayette Place Assocs. v. Boston Redevelopment Auth., 694 N.E.2d 820 (Mass. 1998). · cites it 2× “See G. L. c. 121B, § 9. If a community chooses to establish a redevelopment authority, the governance of that authority is the same as that which applies to a housing authority, G.”

Mahajan v. Dep't of Env't Prot., 464 Mass. 604 (Mass. 2013). “121B, § 4, and an “urban renewal agency” under G. L. c. 121B, § 9. 5 Additionally, it serves as the planning board for the city of Boston and monitors private development under G.”

Benevolent & Prot. Order of Elks, Lodge No. 65 v. Plan. Bd., 531 N.E.2d 1233 (Mass. 1988). “See G. L. c. 121B, § 9 (a). 7 The Department of Community Affairs is a subdivision of the EOCD.”

Williams v. Hanover Hous. Auth., 871 F. Supp. 527 (D. Mass. 1994). “This Court holds that, in the limited circumstances which obtain here — where an eligible tenant cannot find housing within the confines of a city or town which has organized a public housing authority and the tenant thereby runs the risk of losing Section 8 housing assistance —…”

Navy Yard Four Assocs., LLC v. Dep't of Env't Prot., 37 N.E.3d 46 (Mass. App. Ct. 2015). “121B, § 4, and an ‘urban renewal agency’ under G. L. c. 121B, § 9. Additionally, it serves as the planning board for the city of Boston and monitors private development under G.”

Boston Redevelopment Auth. v. Charles River Park \C\" Co.", 490 N.E.2d 810 (Mass. App. Ct. 1986). “The BRA, an “urban renewal agency” as defined in G. L. c. 121B, § 9, inserted by St. 1969, c.”

Comm'r of the Dep't of Cmty. Affairs v. Boston Redevelopment Auth., 289 N.E.2d 867 (Mass. 1972). “The BRA is an urban renewal agency as defined in G. L. c. 121B, § 9, and a planning board as well, established under St.”

Cent. Steel Supply Co. v. Plan. Bd., 447 Mass. 333 (Mass. 2006). “In 1980, the SRA, acting as the city’s urban renewal agency and redevelopment authority pursuant to G. L. c. 121B, § 9, and its board of aldermen, found that the Assembly Square area was a “substandard, decadent, or blighted open area” and qualified as an eligible project area…”

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