[Massplanners] Zoning amendments for 2-family houses etc.

[Chris Rembold]

GB did this 6-8 years ago.  You can have a two-family by right on a single conforming lot in any district. It can be in two structures or in one structure.

Then we realized it seemed as if we required twice the acreage and twice the frontage. So we went to TM and passed an amendment to clarify that is not required.

These all passed easily.

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Christopher Rembold, AICP

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So, let’s take this a bit further, Dennis “allows” two-family by-right. Sorta Kinda. Our zoning requires 40,000 sf per dwelling unit. So, a by-right one-family structure requires 40,000 sf, but if you have 80,000 sf you can build a two-family.  I hardly view this as providing for the missing middle housing.

Are the communities that have responded so far looking at two-family homes being allowed by-right on lots that meet the same requirements as a single family home?

Thanks in advance!

Dan Fortier
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Interim Dennis Planner

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Subject: [Massplanners] Zoning amendments for 2-family houses etc.

Bedford would be interested in hearing from any towns that have amended their zoning to make it easier to build 2-family houses in traditionally (or most recently) single family districts. This might mean allowing them where they've been prohibited or reducing the restrictions/ conditions that apply. The only one I'm aware of is Concord.
Also we're interested in examples of towns that have reverted to earlier denser zoning for residential areas that have mainly non-conforming lots.

Catherine Perry AICP
Assistant Planner
Town of Bedford

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