What it means: Within the Town Center District, structural dimensions are being relaxed somewhat in order to encourage more residential building and to thus ease the housing shortage. Differences such as allowing four stories where there once was allowed only three, or removing the requirement that the number of dwelling units per structure should be no more than eight. This could improve the financial outlook for housing development in the Town Center and potentially increase availability of affordable housing.
The changes incorporated in Article 2 are highlighted at this link:
No one spoke for or against this Article at Deliberative Session, other than to explain it.
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