ARB members press for pragmatic, walkable guidance in draft design standards
Board members gave detailed, implementation-oriented feedback to consultants drafting design guidelines, asking for clearer map keys, lot-depth data, walkability metrics, and affordable-building precedents, and urged the guidance be specific enough to be useful to staff and developers.
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During the consultants’ presentation on draft design guidelines, ARB members spent substantial time offering technical edits and policy priorities. Steve Birgolak requested clearer labeling and map keys (including the three centers represented), Vincent Beaudoin asked for the metric to read as units per parcel rather than a vague notion of density, and other members urged that the guidelines provide different levels of guidance appropriate to building scale.
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