You see, if you're going to put down more than half a million dollars (actually, more than 3/4's of a million dollars) on a new home, you might want to make sure they're not going to be putting a 26-acre office complex outside your back door.

I smell lawsuit!

Barbara Safran moved to Framingham from Atlanta in August, thrilled to have found a home in an oasis of serenity right off the Massachusetts Turnpike.

The town says the proposal shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

Kathleen Bartolini, Framingham's director of planning and economic development, said that the developer's plans for the property were well publicized when the special permit was issued in 2002, and that the concerns are coming from people who have built homes nearby in the years that followed.

Complete story: Residents alarmed by Pike complex - By John C. Drake, The Boston Globe