<div dir="ltr">Jeff,<div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Carolyn Misch, AICP </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><em>Director</em><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><em>City of Northampton Office of Planning & Sustainability</em></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><em>210 Main St</em></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><em>Northampton, MA 01060</em></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> <em>413-587-1287</em></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:cmisch@northamptonma.gov" target="_blank">cmisch@northamptonma.gov</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.northamptonma.gov/opd" target="_blank">www.northamptonma.gov/plan</a></div></div><div><br></div><div></div><div><img src="http://www.northamptonma.gov/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=8538" width="96" height="48"><br></div><div><br></div><div> <br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 4:58 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-879845257810387742">
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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 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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