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Worcester County planners detail growth-area mapping and warn sewer capacity will limit buildout
Summary
County planning consultants walked the planning commission through a buildout methodology for identified growth areas, estimated potential residential capacity and said sewer infrastructure — not zoning — is likely to limit new development.
At a virtual Worcester County comprehensive plan work session, county planning consultants reviewed draft growth-area boundaries and the methodology they used to estimate potential residential and nonresidential buildout. Nick, an AICP-certified planner working with the county, presented the mapping, assumptions and conversion of developable acreage into equivalent residential units.
The presentation described a multi-step method: remove environmentally constrained acreage (the consultant said developers commonly subtract about 15–25% of gross acreage for constraints), apply density ranges by land-use type, and then convert nonresidential acreage to “equivalent residential units” using existing consumption and account data. Nick said the analysis produced…
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