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Planning Board recommends Brockton’s form‑based code to council after condensed presentation
Summary
Planning Board heard a streamlined presentation on a proposed form‑based zoning code covering four neighborhood subareas and voted to recommend the ordinance favorably to City Council. Presenters said the package includes a MuniCode text, an illustrative guide and advisory design guidelines; design guidance will return to the board in May.
Emily Keys Enis, a consultant with Nennis Land Strategies Group, told the Planning Board on April 7 that the proposed form‑based code packages zoning text, an illustrative guide and advisory design guidelines intended to shape building form, massing and streetscape across four neighborhood subareas: downtown/Troutbrook, Campello, Montello and Love at Brookbrook. “There are three documents that form this whole set of tools,” Enis said, describing a text‑based MuniCode version, a more readable illustrative version for the public and separate design guidelines…
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