North Reading Master Plan
The Town of North Reading is creating a Master Plan for the next ten years in order to shape how cert
The final Master Plan is published!
Nine overarching consensus goals that received the most community interest and support guided the plan's recommendations, goals, and strategies:
- Attract private investment and redevelopment with desired uses and traditional walkable Main Street streetscape form.
- Make desired leisure-retail and needed condos/apartments viable by investing in and/or supporting wastewater infrastructure.
- Create a shopping district with leisure-retail uses along an inviting streetscape with outdoor seating areas and upper-story homes and offices that reinforce ground-floor retail uses.
- Address housing demand by allowing more options, including market-rate small lots/dwellings, that also enliven mixed-use/retail development.
- Create an attractive roadway and new robust town center to attract private investment and desired development type.
- Make zoning clearer to allow desired and/or needed uses, as well as compact, vertically-integrated mixed-use that can eventually help support goals such as local mass transit, affordable housing, and leisure retail
- Support water and wastewater infrastructure to in turn support desired physical landscape and uses along Route 28.
- Protect drinking water quality by preventing runoff and contamination
- Encourage economic development by attracting more retail, commercial/office and light industrial development in order to ease the residential tax base.
North Reading Master Plan – MAPC North Reading Master Plan Posted on August 2, 2018 at 12:53 pm. Written by Elise Harmon By John Phelan - CC BY 3.0 North Reading Master Plan CHANGE FONT SIZE MAPC >> Resources >> Land Use >> North Reading Master Plan North Reading Master Plan 2018-2028 About the Project In 2018 and 2019, MAPC prepar...