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Acton staff recommend larger by-right expansion or square-foot cap to ease ZBA burden
Summary
Planning staff reported a 98% ZBA approval rate for nonconforming-lot expansion requests since 2012 and proposed raising the by-right cap (40''50%) or switching to a square-foot cap; the boards favored a square-foot or footprint exemption approach with continued public-notice protections.
Planning staff presented findings that since the town adopted a 15% by-right cap for additions on nonconforming lots in 2012 the Zoning Board of Appeals has reviewed 56 applications and approved 53 in full. Staff said the median granted increase has been about 38% (approximately 1,000 square feet), and that a percent-based cap can…
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