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Braintree adds site-plan review for projects invoking Dover Amendment and clarifies ADU rule
Summary
The Town of Braintree unanimously adopted a zoning text amendment requiring site-plan review when applicants invoke M.G.L. c.48, s.3 (the Dover Amendment) and clarified that accessory dwelling units (ADUs) remain governed by the town's ADU bylaw.
The Town of Braintree council on Tuesday unanimously approved a zoning text amendment that adds a site-plan review process for proposed uses that invoke the Dover Amendment, and clarified that accessory dwelling units (ADUs) will remain governed by the townADU bylaw.
Planning Director Maschak told the council the amendment is intended to create a public site-plan review step for "exempt uses" protected under the Dover Amendment so abutters are notified and the planning board may apply…
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