[Massplanners] Housing Density and Design Review

[Wayne Feiden]

In Northampton, starting 20 years ago, the redevelopment of the Northampton State Hospital certainly became much easier when we put strong design standards in our zoning. 

Last year, design standards for two family homes helped pave the acceptance of two family homes all formerly single family home zoning districts.

Carolyn Misch oversaw the recent creation, with a consultant, of form based codes adopted a couple of months ago downtown and in a second village (Florence) with the hope that this will make density more acceptable, but no project has gone through the process yet so we can’t evaluate that success for a while.

Wayne Feiden

Forgive typos.  This from my small phone.

On Jun 3, 2022, at 3:24 PM, Chris Skelly via MassPlanners <massplanners at masscptc.org> wrote:


I am looking for examples where having design review was useful in moderating opposition to increasing housing density.  I’d especially like to hear of examples where housing density was substantially increased but would be interested in hearing whatever examples are out there.  

Chris Skelly
Skelly Preservation Services
Community Planning and Preservation
www.skellypreservationservices.com
ccskelly12 at gmail.com

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