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Commission explores using historic 'contributing resources' and small-lot rules to encourage townhouse-style infill
Summary
Planning commissioners and staff discussed maps and options to legalize and incentivize townhouses and small-lot infill in areas identified as contributing historic resources, aiming to align zoning with the borough's comp plan and promote attainable housing choices while protecting character.
Commissioners spent an extended segment of the April 29 meeting reviewing a presentation on how the borough might legalize and incentivize townhouse- and small-lot residential forms that match the borough's historic, pedestrian-scale fabric.
Planner Bill (presentation name in record) showed maps of existing contributing resources and argued the borough currently discourages the very house types that define its neighborhoods, because zoning and subdivision rules do not permit the narrow-lot, attached…
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