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Planning board advances height and setback articles, delays FAR/lot-coverage decision after lengthy debate
Summary
After hours of technical presentation and debate about two FAR/coverage options, the board agreed to send height and setback changes to Town Meeting and to postpone a final decision on floor-area-ratio and lot-coverage changes for additional validation and modeling.
The Needham Planning Board voted to advance proposed height and setback zoning changes to Town Meeting while postponing a decision on floor-area-ratio (FAR) and lot-coverage reform after a multi-hour technical presentation and vigorous debate about modeling, market impacts and distributional effects.
Lee Newman presented modeling from the Large House study committee that compared two policy options. Newman summarized the modeled impacts: "under option A, actually a reduction of around somewhere between 7 to 8%" on an example 7,800-square-foot lot, whereas "option B"…
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