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
02/12/2019
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.
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