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Jeff and Carolyn,</div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Corbel, Skia, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Medford, MA 02155</span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 29, 2024 12:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jeffrey Robert Levine <jrlevine@mit.edu><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [External] Re: [Massplanners] Friday afternoon question</span>
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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.</span></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 4:58 PM Jeffrey Robert Levine via MassPlanners <<a href="mailto:massplanners@masscptc.org" id="OWA9d3324d1-6785-0446-e39b-cbc8193961b7" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly">massplanners@masscptc.org</a>>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For a project I am working on with a regional planning agency out of state:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thanks,</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jeff</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Lecturer of Economic Development and Planning</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Program Head, Housing, Community & Economic Development</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Department of Urban Studies & Planning</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Room 9-511</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="mailto:jrlevine@mit.edu" id="OWA837befa4-2552-320f-cdd6-73bb6fdc4cd3" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">jrlevine@mit.edu</a></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Personal Zoom Room:
</span><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="https://mit.zoom.us/my/jeff.levine" id="OWA7641f6de-c694-5663-a5bd-10bd14da5b20" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://mit.zoom.us/my/jeff.levine</a></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Levine, J. (2021). Leadership in Planning: How to Communicate Ideas and Effect Positive Change (1st ed.). Routledge.
</span><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429279287" id="OWA9ee7654e-7053-75ca-20bd-64a8d96225dc" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429279287</a></span></p>
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