East Milton Square Mixed-Use Overlay Zoning

Overview

The Planning Board and the Department of Planning & Community Development are working with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) to develop a mixed-use overlay zoning district in East Milton Square. This effort continues years of planning and visioning in the neighborhood, most recently the East Milton Square visioning work that led to Looking Forward: East Milton Square.

Mixed-Use Zoning is zoning that allows for a deliberate mix of housing, civic uses, and commercial uses, including retail, restaurants, and offices. This is in contrast to traditional zoning that separates allowable uses from each other. 

This zoning initiative is an "overlay" district. This means that the current underlying zoning remains in place. Property owners may choose to develop according to the underlying zoning or, alternatively, according to our new mixed-use zoning provisions. The overlay encourages coordinated, cohesive development.

Community Survey

We have developed a brief community survey to help guide this planning process, and we are grateful for the time taken to fill it out.

There is a brief follow-up survey following our Community Meeting on March 25th available at https://mapc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6F40c1pn1xIfDN4.

Analysis of the survey responses will be conducted by MAPC staff and used to inform our planning process.