A Suffolk Superior Court judge yesterday rejected a request to immediately block work to convert the former Stonhedge nursing home on Redlands Road in West Roxbury into "congregate" apartments for up to 120 people, who would live there for at least a month as they try to get back on their feet and find more permanent housing.

Opponents filed suit just 30 minutes after the Zoning Board of Appeal voted Oct. 28 to uphold ISD's OK of plans by the building's owners and a Fitchburg non-profit to convert the building just off Centre Street into 40 residential rooms, with shared bathrooms and kitchen space, charging that the project violates the lot's zoning, is based on illegally altered plans and was really meant to stick a homeless shelter for vagrants in a family neighborhood.

Along with the

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