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Planning Board reviews draft housing and workforce-housing ordinance changes; asks for clearer formulas and edits
Summary
Brentwood planning officials and consultants reviewed a comprehensive draft of housing and workforce-housing zoning changes, focusing on density, definitions and practical implementation details; the board asked for clearer formulas and examples to show how density bonuses would work in practice.
Planning Board members and consultants conducted a detailed, page‑by‑page review of proposed housing- and workforce-housing ordinance changes and associated fact sheets. Topics included accessory dwelling units (ADUs), district boundary changes, multifamily definitions, density caps (six units per developable acre vs. an eight-unit bonus for workforce housing), septic and well constraints, setbacks from Route 125, and design guidance (rooflines, massing, buffer and façade modulation).
Several members questioned how the workforce-housing bonus…
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