Mass Superior Court: New HCA Law Does Not Apply Retroactively
July 22, 2024
The court also held that the old Host Community Agreement law does not require the city to document “reasonably related costs”
The court also held that the old Host Community Agreement law does not require the city to document “reasonably related costs”
“Just from my preliminary review, I have not seen a single compliant HCA.”
“We did a lot of reviews of HCAs that are out in the industry and that have been used—whether you would call them good HCAs, or bad HCAs, or indifferent HCAs, we read a lot of them.”
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