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Needham working group favors lot‑specific sliding formula for coverage and FAR, not a single hard cap
Summary
A Town of Needham zoning working group discussed replacing tiered lot‑coverage steps with a lot‑size formula and agreed to finalize equations for Planning Board review after testing alternative numbers; no formal vote was taken.
A Needham zoning working group on Dec. 20 moved closer to recommending a lot‑size‑tailored approach to lot coverage and floor‑area ratio (FAR), favoring a sliding formula over a stepped tier system while leaving precise numbers to be finalized for Planning Board review. Speaker 1 opened that portion of the meeting by saying the group needed to “work through those questions that are outstanding about how we're gonna manage the attic” and to finalize the coverage and FAR equations.
Members discussed whether to cap house size on lots larger than 15,000…
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