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Planning board reviews NEMCOG regional housing strategy priorities and asks members to pick local focus areas
Summary
A board member summarized the NEMCOG "Home in Greater Lowell" report and urged the board to prioritize among 17 strategies, highlighting missing‑middle housing, a regional housing service office, an expanded homebuyer program, and a regional infrastructure/sewer plan as local priorities.
A board member briefed the Planning Board on Northern Middlesex Council of Governments’ (NEMCOG) "Home in Greater Lowell" findings and strategies and asked the board to identify which tools it would like NEMCOG to develop further for Westford.
The presentation summarized key findings: an aging and shrinking household base, housing production lagging demand, widespread housing cost burden,…
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