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Planning Board backs broad LD 1829-driven zoning updates, pilots changes in Office Commercial South
Summary
The Cumberland Planning Board recommended a package of ordinance amendments to comply with state housing laws, piloting LD 1829 changes in the Office Commercial South district to allow mixed uses, smaller lots and reduced setbacks; the board noted infrastructure, traffic and growth-cap implications and asked that the Town Council and town attorney review the package.
The Cumberland Planning Board on Nov. 18 voted to recommend a package of zoning ordinance changes to the Town Council intended to bring the town into compliance with new state housing laws, including a pilot revision to the Office Commercial South (OCS) district that would allow additional residential and commercial uses and smaller lot standards.
Bridgette, planning staff, told the board the packet included a redline and a clean version of proposed changes and that the OCS pilot was intended to test LD 1829-driven adjustments in one zone. "We pilot the LD 18 29 changes in 1 zone," she said, and staff proposed edits to setbacks, side-yard rules and common-wall allowances to permit townhouses and mixed-use development.
The board heard contrasting public comments. Nina Weil of Hebert Development, representing owners of about 30 acres in the OCS zone, said the changes would make housing and neighborhood-serving businesses financially feasible: "These density provisions…
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