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Brentwood Planning Board debates zoning edits for Pine Road, Route 27 and ADUs; schedules second public hearing
Summary
At a work session, the Brentwood Planning Board discussed proposed map and ordinance changes that would clarify where multifamily housing is allowed, whether Pine Road should be exempted from multifamily, ADU size limits, and workforce-housing provisions; staff will draft RSA language and a follow-up hearing is set for tomorrow at 7:00 p.m.
The Brentwood Planning Board spent more than an hour on Tuesday parsing proposed zoning-map and ordinance changes that would determine whether multifamily housing is permitted on three commercial corridors and how to define industrial uses.
Board members debated whether to remove the word "industrial" from the Route 27 district and whether to explicitly exclude multifamily from Pine Road, where the ordinance currently states that "no dwelling shall be permitted in the commercial industrial district of Pine Road." Speaker 4 told the board the text and the zoning map must align and said the town can cite state law exemptions if it wants to exclude housing on Pine Road.
The discussion centered on balancing the state mandate to allow multifamily in commercial districts with local preferences to keep heavy industry and housing separate. Speaker 2 argued against removing industrial on Route 27, citing existing businesses and the Prescott…
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