SUMMARY:
Continued Public Hearing, the public hearing was opened on February 1st. The Planning Board will hold a continued hearing to discuss further and begin deliberating after the comments from the February 1st meeting.
The Planning Board's Zoning Bylaw and Zoning Map proposal is to create village overlay districts permitting multi-family housing with inclusionary housing requirements, and allows mixed use in some districts under specific conditions. Articles 34 and 35 will be discussed together because they are related articles.
These article implement the requirements of M.G.L. c. 40A § 3A by establishing new overlay zoning districts on the Zoning Map and amending the Zoning Bylaw to permit multi-family housing, and mixed-use developments (in some areas), with an as-of-right approval process within those new districts. The Planning Board's zoning proposal will create new Village Overlay Districts in Section 7.5 of the Bylaw and on the Zoning Map as Village Low Rise Overlay (VLO), Village Mid Rise Overlay (VMO), and Village High Rise Overlay (VMO).
More info and background here: http://lexingtonma.gov/MBTAZoning
The presentation from February 1 is attached. The zoning proposal draft as presented on 2/1 is attached.
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