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Brockton resident Od Teixeira plans to take full advantage of a new state law that requires cities and towns to allow accessory dwelling units by building his mother an ADU in his backyard at 125 ...
A planning and zoning commission is a local elected or appointed government board charged with recommending to the local town or city council the boundaries of the various original zoning districts and appropriate regulations to be enforced therein and any proposed amendments thereto. In addition, the Planning and Zoning Commission collects ...
A Standard State Zoning Enabling Act" (SZEA) was a model law for U.S. states to enable zoning regulations in their jurisdictions. It was drafted by a committee of the Department of Commerce and first issued in 1922. This act was one of the foundational developments in land use planning in the United States.
Contract zoning in the United States, also referred to as "zoning by contract", "rezoning by contract", or "rezoning subject to conditions" [1] is a form of land use regulation in which a local zoning authority accommodates a private interest by rezoning a district or a parcel of land within that district to a zoning classification with fewer restrictions based on an agreement that the ...
Fans of Brockton's libraries: Library trustees meet Tuesday about the library's budget for fiscal 2025. Clarkson has been invited to speak at the meeting, which is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at the ...
Geoffrey Anatole, a developer whose Brockton projects include XLVII West Elm, speaks in favor of a different developer's plan to redevelop the old Brockton Fairgrounds at a public meeting at West ...
All municipalities in the state of Massachusetts are subject to that state's General Laws Chapter 40B, which allows developers to bypass certain municipal zoning restrictions in those municipalities which have fewer than the statutorily defined 10% affordable housing units. Developers taking advantage of Chapter 40B must construct 20% ...
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