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Lakeville Journal : Salisbury  

Overlay zone will allow for smaller lots, more houses
By PATRICK L. SULLIVAN
September, 24, 2009
SALISBURY — The Northwestern Connecticut Regional Planning Collaborative has issued a preliminary report on creating an Incentive Housing Zone for affordable housing in Salisbury.

An Incentive Housing Zone is an overlay zone that does not change existing regulations, but allows property owners additional options. The zones allow smaller lots (or higher density); state law requires a minimum density of six units per acre for single-family detached housing; 10 units per acre for townhouses or duplexes; and 20 units per acre for multi-family dwellings.

In any event the zone must be 25 percent more dense than the existing zoning in the area covered by the overlay zone.

Planners Chris Wood and Jocelyn Ayer are concentrating on the village centers in Salisbury and Lakeville, Ayer said, in part because the grant for the study specifies “what the state defines as a village center.”

The planners have met with the Planning and Zoning Commission already, and are focusing on three sites — two vacant, one with buildings. All three are in the Salisbury and Lakeville village centers, in walking distance to shopping.

“We’re talking with landowners now, and if they are agreeable then we will do more detailed studies and develop an IHZ regulation for the site or sites, to take to Planning and Zoning and the public,” Ayer said.

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