Present: Dellorco, Kelly, Bissanti, Vallee, Padula, Feldman, Williams, Pfeffer
Absent: Mercer
Planning Board: Halligan
Finance Committee: Dewslap, Conley
ZBA: Hunchard
Copy of handout to be added later
Note: while this session is being recorded, I won;t be able to participate for the full session due to a work commitment).
1 - neighborhood commercial zoning district
discussion on addition of small pockets of commercial to allow for neighborhood milk, convenience stores
2 - multi-family zoning
multi-family by law means apartments not just condos
we don't have anything to address 3 unit or more except in Downtown C1
we had an old zone 6
I am not arguing about writing it, where do you want to put it
Kelly - put it near the train stations to enable walk to the train to go to Boston
Nutting - down by Thompson Press, where there is an industrial zone including the lumber yard
the sense is in the downtown area
take zone 6 out of your head, you can still have multi-family but not do what that did which doesnt work
could change to zone 5, 1,000 sq ft per unit
that is one option for housing
what about Cottage/Union St?
changing the zoning would allow the owner to bring in apartments
multi-family by law is either or condos or apartments
zone 7 forces the developer to build separate building rathe than all attached in the same building
Kelly - I am trying to drive more traffic downtown, by putting more apartments there you get the downtown busier
there are two things economic development or property taxes; that is the question for the Council
concensus to consider this? yes
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