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Planning staff reports 2,100+ net new units since 2019 zoning update; Central Broadway zoning study proposes MR‑6 and intermunicipal coordination
Summary
Planning presented permit and unit data since Somerville's 2019 zoning reform and a Central Broadway corridor zoning study recommending targeted upzoning, coordinated permitting with Medford and updated pedestrian‑street guidance; staff offered to provide more granular unit counts by district on request.
Somerville planning staff provided an update on transit‑oriented development (TOD) and post‑2019 permit activity at the May 1 Land Use Committee meeting and presented a separate Central Broadway corridor zoning study that recommends coordinated upzoning and regulatory fixes for parcels split between Somerville and Medford.
Samantha Carr, legislative analyst, summarized permit data since the 2019 comprehensive zoning update: the city recorded a peak volume of permits in 2021 and staff counted "the total coming to slightly over 2,100 units since December 2019." Most permitting activity by count has…
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