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Brookfield planning board backs slate of state-driven zoning edits, including ADU changes and parking reductions
Summary
The Brookfield Planning Board unanimously approved a package of warrant articles (2–7) to align local zoning with state law — covering household definitions, detached ADUs, childcare as accessory use, camp building heights and reduced parking requirements — and added explanatory language after public questions.
The Brookfield Planning Board voted unanimously Jan. 12 to recommend a set of zoning amendments that update town rules to match recent state law changes, the board said at a public hearing.
The board advanced amendments (warrant articles 2 through 7) that replace references to "family" with a new definition of "household," allow detached accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and remove a requirement for an internal connecting door, permit family and group-family child care programs as accessory residential uses, limit residential facilities in summer youth camps to two stories, and reduce on-site parking requirements for multifamily workforce housing from two spaces to one per dwelling unit. Each article passed the board with recorded outcomes of 6–0–0.
Board Chair read the language for each article and said…
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