[Massplanners] Percentage of Non Residential in Mixed Use Districts

[Schreiber, Gideon]

We have one requirement in our CB zone that allows no more than 15% of the ground floor to be used for residential specific use.  Shared spaces like lobbies and bathrooms open to the businesses would not be counted.  We have another district PSCD-2 where the goal was to have more commercial in general so the s.f. is based on the total gross s.f. of the project.  That district requires 15% of the total gross s.f. be commercial but does not specific how or where that space is located.  I think having only a percent can be somewhat difficult since it does not relate to actual s.f. needed to create successful commercial spaces.

Gideon Schreiber, AICP, Assistant Director of Planning
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Thank you all so much for the helpful information!

Sarah L. Raposa, AICP

Director of Planning & Development

Mansfield, MA

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On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 3:49 PM Darlene Wynne <dwynne at beverlyma.gov<mailto:dwynne at beverlyma.gov>> wrote:
Hi Sarah,
We have a defined geographic area where we require ground floor activated uses<https://ecode360.com/29283349> for approximately 80% of the lot width and 100% of the building frontage. However, ground floor activated uses allows for 25% of the uses to be residential (e.g. lobby, gym, etc) as long as it is designed to be transparent and/or pedestrian friendly.  See also: https://ecode360.com/32533935#32533935

Darlene Wynne, AICP
City of Beverly
Director of Planning & Development
978-605-2341
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On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 2:33 PM Bill Nemser via MassPlanners <massplanners at masscptc.org<mailto:massplanners at masscptc.org>> wrote:
Hi Sarah,

We just did this last year.  We require over 50% of ground floor space be non-residential.  See page 76:  Town of Maynard Protective Zoning By-Laws (townofmaynard-ma.gov)<https://www.townofmaynard-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/224/Zoning-By-Laws-PDF?bidId=>

Bill


Bill Nemser, AICP, LEED AP
Planning Director
Office of Municipal Services
Town of Maynard
195 Main Street
Maynard, Ma. 01754
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Subject: [Massplanners] Percentage of Non Residential in Mixed Use Districts

Hi all - I am working with the Mansfield Planning Board on an update to their existing multi-family zoning bylaw. They currently have 15 units/acre by-right and then are proposing to up that to 30 units/acre by-right and up to 60 units/acre with a mixed use component and other incentives.

For a number of qualitative reasons, the PB thinks that 25% of the ground floor area should be non-residential. Feedback from a couple landowners say that is too high. In lieu of a bona fide market analysis, I thought I'd poll my peers...

If you have a mixed use district, what are your non-residential requirements?

Many thanks,
Sarah

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