[Massplanners] Question on Mixed-Use Overlays

[Chris Rembold]

GB has one called the Village Center Overlay Districts.  It made some mixed use allowances, reduced parking requirements, but on the other hand added a special permit process for design review.  It’s worked ok over the last 8-10 years.  We also revised the use table in the underlying zone.

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Christopher Rembold, AICP

Assistant Town Manager /

Director of Planning and

Community Development

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Town of Great Barrington

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Great Barrington MA 01230




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I agree with Dan. Sometimes, overlays create 2nd options and do not address the core changes that you seek. In Tewksbury, we just reduced our number of overlays from 13 to 5. They became very confusing to applicants, board members and the general public. Our new Town Center District does allow for mixed uses without the use of an overlay.


Steve Sadwick, FAICP
Assistant Town Manager
Town of Tewksbury




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Dennis rezone Dennis Port and West Dennis Village Centers. We did not ho the overlay route. We wanted to get rid of the 1970's strip zoning that existed in that area, not just give a second option.  Our zoning sought to return to more historic land use patterns for the two villages.

Dan Fortier
Retired
Interim Dennis Planner

On Wed, Sep 7, 2022, 2:47 PM Curtin, Jennifer via MassPlanners <massplanners at masscptc.org<mailto:massplanners at masscptc.org>> wrote:
Hello all,
Have any other Towns established mixed-use overlay districts in their downtowns and if so, could you send me some examples?

Best regards,

Jennifer Curtin (she/her/hers)
Assistant Director of Planning and Land Use
Town of Lincoln
781-259-2610
curtinj at lincolntown.org<mailto:curtinj at lincolntown.org>


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