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Plymouth meeting lays groundwork for housing chapter; consultants recommend zoning fixes, incentives and 'missing‑middle' options
Summary
At a community meeting hosted by the Plymouth Planning Board, consultants summarized HOP grant work and a housing needs assessment and recommended clearer zoning, incentives for affordable units, and policies to enable 1–4 unit 'missing middle' housing. Public input will inform a draft to the board in June.
Consultants and the Plymouth Planning Board on Thursday reviewed work on a new housing chapter for the town's master plan, telling residents the document will build on earlier HOP (Housing Opportunity Program) grant work and a zoning audit that identified regulatory barriers to building more housing.
The meeting featured a presentation of the needs assessment and recommended next steps. A consultant summarized the community's vision from the 2018 plan, quoting that Plymouth's aim is to be “a place that has it all,” and said the HOP grants and a recent audit showed a gap between what many Plymouth households…
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