Arlington Sets Design Rules For New Households, Additions

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Arlington set its Household Design Tips just after a yr-extensive enhancement procedure.

ARLINGTON, MA — The town has set its Residential Structure Pointers just after a 12 months-prolonged progress approach, outlining local community-knowledgeable layout choices for new design of and additions to solitary-household and two-family households in low-density residential zoning districts.

The system incorporated virtual general public workshops, surveys and remote enter alternatives. Whilst the guidelines are advisory in mother nature, they will be thought of by the Zoning Board of Appeals when analyzing requests for Unique Permits.

The intention of the tips is to stability the “streetcar suburb” background of Arlington’s household neighborhoods with the modifying requires of the group inspire inventive, sustainable renovations and additions that enhance the house and neighborhood in scale and type stimulate new homes that are constant with the neighborhood and retain, protect protect and boost historic and assorted cultural assets.

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The Household Design Tips can be viewed on the town’s internet site. They will be integrated as a reference doc into construction checklists, offered at the Inspectional Services Division, and shared with community realtors, builders and builders.

The DRWG is collaborating with DPCD on identifying additional possibilities for informing the group about this new useful resource, so it can be included early into the design of residential initiatives.

Venture info may be discovered on the Design and style Evaluate Doing the job Group’s web-site.

For far more info, call Kelly Lynema, Senior Planner in Arlington’s Department of Organizing and Local community Enhancement at 781-316-3096 or klynema@city.arlington.ma.us.