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Brentwood planning board settles on ADU limits, readies multiple public hearings for Jan. 8
Summary
The Brentwood Town Planning Board agreed to present accessory-dwelling-unit (ADU) language at a Jan. 8 public hearing, keeping a roughly 1,100-square-foot footprint cap to preserve the 'accessory' intent while removing ambiguous "encouraged" phrasing from notices; multiple ordinance revisions will be publicly noticed.
The Brentwood Town Planning Board on Monday agreed to forward proposed ordinance edits — including an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) rule that preserves ADUs as subsidiary to the primary home — to a public hearing set for Jan. 8.
Board members spent the meeting debating measurement and scope for ADUs, repeatedly emphasizing the intent that an ADU remain "accessory," not a second primary house. Members settled on presenting language that treats the 1,100-square-foot figure as a footprint guideline (rather than only livable area), and agreed that attached garages should generally be…
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