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Brian Benson Daily News Staff @bbensonMWDN NATICK - Another housing development could be coming to Speen Street to the north of Rte. 9. Developer Josh Katzen of Cloverleaf Mall and Cloverleaf Apartments is eyeing building about 125 apartments in the same area off Speen Street. The Cloverleaf West Apartments would be built under Chapter 40B and include affordable units . It would be a 10-story building like the existing apartments, Katzen said. "We’re at the very early stages," Katzen told the Planning Board recently . The Massachusetts Housing Partnership needs to sign off before it would go before the Natick Zoning Board of Appeals, he said. Chapter 40B is designed to spur the creation of affordable housing . Because Natick is above a state requirement for affordable housing units , a developer who proposes a Chapter 40B project loses an opportunity to appeal a zoning board decision to the state Housing Appeals Committee . But the zoning board can still consider 40...