Heat and Cool Your Town More Efficiently with Clean Technologies
…on home heating – $2,400 if they live in an area without natural gas. Heating with oil, propane, and electricity can be significantly more expensive than heating with natural gas….
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Downtown Foxborough Business Visioning 2017
…Master Planning process, community members identified revitalizing Downtown Foxborough as a key goal. In January, we held a visioning workshop with a focus group consisting of Foxborough business owners. There,…
Creating a “Park Once” District
…a car-oriented strip mall area. Creating the type of environment where its easy for people to walk between destinations involves both good urban design and parking policies. If each destination…
Oversupply: Parking Taking up Valuable Space
…parking and transportation demand management). Use excess parking areas during non-peak demand times for activities that draw people to the downtown area – farmer’s markets and weekend festivals, for example….
Local Examples: Waiving Parking Requirements
…public streets. In the event of the enlargement or change of use of an existing structure, the regulations set forth in this section shall apply only to the area added…
Examples of Recent Local Parking Studies
Three local examples are provided. The Belmont, Mass. and Lexington, Mass. parking study examples are studies that target commercial areas and focus exclusively on parking issues. The Norwood, Mass. example…
Parking Issues and Questions
…and strategies that may help in its resolution. There is not enough parking in the downtown area; customers have trouble finding spaces and frequent double-parking blocks spots and causes congestion…
Eliminating Minimum Parking Requirements
…A 33 (1999): 549-574. Available as a free download from https://shoup.bol.ucla.edu/. Donald Shoup, The High Cost of Free Parking (2005), Planners Press, American Planning Association. Available for purchase from https://www.planning.org/APAStore/Search/Default.aspx?p=1814….
Winter Council Meeting: Sustainable Communities Accomplishments
…February 26, 2014. Courtesy Marilyn Humphries. MAPC Winter Council Meeting, Boston, Mass., February 26, 2014. Courtesy Marilyn Humphries. Shirronda Almeida Chandler, the Steering Committee Chair of MetroBoston Sustainable Communities,…
Danvers Town Meeting Unanimously Passes Tapleyville Overlay District Article
…a small industrial area near the downtown and adjacent to the bike path. Congratulations to many at MAPC, which provided the town with the updated zoning text and also visualizations…