[Massplanners] [External] Re: Friday afternoon question

[Cousineau, Christine]

Jeff and Carolyn,

Northampton is a great example of a city using several zoning tools to allow for more housing. Eliminating single-family zoning citywide is very impressive! The same feat as Minneapolis without the national headlines.

Attached are sources on upzoning and other measures to allow more housing. Not all are examples of cities and towns using these tools (some are more context pieces) but still food for thought.

Best,
Christine

Christine Cousineau, AICP, Lecturer
Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
Tufts University
Bromfield-Pearson Hall, Room 117
503 Boston Ave
Medford, MA 02155

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Subject: [External] Re: [Massplanners] Friday afternoon question

Jeff,
Northampton has made several changes to its zoning based upon objectives and directives in our Sustainability Plan.  The most recent changes included eliminating single-family only zoning throughout the City.  We also created more flexibility to create multiple small detached structures on a single lot, created flexibility to have a combination of unit types on a single lot and reduced frontage, lot size, open space and parking requirements.


Carolyn Misch, AICP
Director
City of Northampton Office of Planning & Sustainability
210 Main St
Northampton, MA  01060
 413-587-1287
cmisch at northamptonma.gov<mailto:cmisch at northamptonma.gov>
www.northamptonma.gov/plan<http://www.northamptonma.gov/opd>

[http://www.northamptonma.gov/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=8538]




On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 4:58 PM Jeffrey Robert Levine via MassPlanners <massplanners at masscptc.org<mailto:massplanners at masscptc.org>> wrote:

For a project I am working on with a regional planning agency out of state:



What are some examples of towns that have increased allowed density to allow for more housing and more housing types? Preferably of their own volition, more or less, not in response to any state mandates like 40B or 3A.



Thanks,



Jeff



Jeff Levine, AICP (he/him)

Lecturer of Economic Development and Planning

Program Head, Housing, Community & Economic Development

Department of Urban Studies & Planning

Room 9-511

jrlevine at mit.edu<mailto:jrlevine at mit.edu>

Personal Zoom Room: https://mit.zoom.us/my/jeff.levine

Levine, J. (2021). Leadership in Planning: How to Communicate Ideas and Effect Positive Change (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429279287

(617) 817-0424

[MIT]



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