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Southborough draft housing plan sets 5-year target of 255 new homes, outlines ADU, zoning and infrastructure strategies
Summary
A draft Housing Production Plan presented to the Town of Southborough’s Affordable Housing Trust recommends adding 255 dwelling units by 2030, including 28 subsidized units to meet a 10% SHI goal. The plan emphasizes ADUs, use of MBTA Communities overlay capacity, Route 9 redevelopment, wastewater planning, and tracking outcomes.
Sarah Brent, a consultant with Community Scale, presented a draft Housing Production Plan to the Town of Southborough Affordable Housing Trust, saying the plan “really has three main components,” including a housing needs assessment, community goals and strategies to reach them.
The draft concludes Southborough should add 255 dwelling units, including 28 subsidized housing inventory (SHI) units, between 2025 and 2030 to maintain a healthy housing market and preserve 40B Safe Harbor status. Brent summarized the analysis that led to the target: projected net household growth of 171 households plus additional units needed to maintain healthy vacancy rates and replace aging stock.
The plan breaks strategies into “production” actions that add homes and “nonproduction” steps to strengthen the local housing ecosystem. Brent identified five priority production strategies discussed by the committee: encouraging accessory dwelling units (ADUs) under recent state legalization, using capacity in the MBTA Communities…
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