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Planning board reviews ADU, multifamily and workforce housing options, plans public outreach
Summary
Contractor team and town planners briefed the Brentwood Town Planning Board on accessory dwelling units, multifamily zoning and workforce-housing options funded by a $60,000 Housing Opportunity Planning grant; board agreed to develop outreach materials and schedule a public meeting before summer.
Steve Whitman, a contractor with Resilience Planning and Design, told the Brentwood Town Planning Board that the town’s $60,000 Housing Opportunity Planning grant will fund a year of work to explore possible regulatory changes on accessory dwelling units, multifamily zoning and workforce housing.
The presentation, led by Crystal Kidd, a planner with Resilience Planning and Design, summarized options the consultant team reviewed and said the immediate goal is to get direction from the board before public engagement. “We don’t need to craft an actual regulation yet. We want to start to get some direction, some understanding, and before we go out and engage with the public,” Kidd said.
Why it matters: Brentwood must reconcile its zoning with recent state housing guidance and its own Master Plan housing chapter, board members and staff said. The consultants recommended exploring detached ADUs, changes to size and parking requirements, zoning updates to enable “missing middle” multifamily near Route 125, and workforce-housing mechanisms the state toolkit describes.
On accessory dwelling units, Whitman said Brentwood currently allows only attached ADUs and the…
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