Norton Select Board Backs $200 Million Senior Housing Campus, Recommends Downtown Redesign

NORTON -- April 16, 2026, Norton Select Board unanimously backs $200 million senior campus redevelopment and downtown intersection study at April 16 reorganization meeting. Newly elected Chair Roger Maussan led the board as it voted to authorize Town Manager Mark Gould to sign a letter of support for the Daggett Crandall Newcomb Home's Local Initiative Program application, a required step before the state will accept the filing, for a proposed 251-unit senior living community on a 92-acre Newland Street campus that attorneys project would generate $2.6 million in annual tax revenue at full build-out and add 128 units to Norton's subsidized housing inventory. The board also voted unanimously to support Article 24, recommending Option 1, a Taunton Avenue extension rerouting traffic to the right of the town common's church, for the long-debated reconstruction of the Route 140 and Route 123 intersection, backed by a $140,000 study with $100,000 anticipated from a state earmark. On stormwater, the board backed Article 25, a $100,000 appropriation for design and construction of a drainage fix at 44 South Worcester Street, after homeowners Trevor and Christine McPherson showed video of repeated basement flooding they have reported to the town since 2019. James Rich was elected vice chair over Denise Luciano, 3-2, and Bob Kimball was elected clerk over Luciano, also 3-2.