<div dir="ltr">Jeff,<div><br></div><div>Newport, RI did a plan for a second downtown a few years back. <a href="http://cityofnewport.com/neup">cityofnewport.com/neup</a> The project won a national economic development award from APA last year. <a href="https://economic.planning.org/awards-scholarships/best-practices-economic-development-awards/">https://economic.planning.org/awards-scholarships/best-practices-economic-development-awards/</a> We are now working on a plan to add housing density in the rest of the city. <a href="https://patch.com/rhode-island/newport/newport-invites-residents-discuss-improving-housing-stock-city">https://patch.com/rhode-island/newport/newport-invites-residents-discuss-improving-housing-stock-city</a></div><div><br></div><div>Peter Friedrichs</div><div>Libra Planners</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 4:57 PM Jeffrey Robert Levine via MassPlanners <<a href="mailto:massplanners@masscptc.org">massplanners@masscptc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-8945500375951010990">





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<p class="MsoNormal">For a project I am working on with a regional planning agency out of state:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jeff <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jeff Levine, AICP (he/him)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lecturer of Economic Development and Planning<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Program Head, Housing, Community & Economic Development<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Department of Urban Studies & Planning<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Room 9-511<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:jrlevine@mit.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">jrlevine@mit.edu</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Personal Zoom Room: <a href="https://mit.zoom.us/my/jeff.levine" target="_blank">
<span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://mit.zoom.us/my/jeff.levine</span></a> <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Levine, J. (2021). Leadership in Planning: How to Communicate Ideas and Effect Positive Change (1st ed.). Routledge.
<a href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429279287" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429279287</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(617) 817-0424<u></u><u></u></p>
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