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Andover's first zoning by-law was enacted at the March 9, 1936 Annual Town Meeting. <ref> Estimate $29.50 rate; zoning law passed, ''The Andover Townsman'', March 13, 1936. </ref> | Andover's first zoning by-law was enacted at the March 9, 1936 Annual Town Meeting. <ref> Estimate $29.50 rate; zoning law passed, ''The Andover Townsman'', March 13, 1936. </ref> <ref> Andover Zoning Law Approved, ''The Boston Globe,'' April 12, 1936. <ref> The Town of Andover's first Planning Board had been voted into law ten years earlier. <ref> [https://archive.org/details/annualreporto19261929ando/mode/2up Annual Report for the Town of Andover, 1926] </ref> In 1960, Andover adopted 'cluster zoning,' the first town in Massachusetts to create special development by-laws that allowed sub-divisions of ten acres or more to create residential lots sized smaller that the required two acres and for them to have frontages that were less than the required existing laws permitted. <ref>[https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/73317 Clement, John Roland. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1966. M.C.P] </ref> | ||
Revision as of 13:17, 26 March 2024
Andover's first zoning by-law was enacted at the March 9, 1936 Annual Town Meeting. [1] Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag In 1960, Andover adopted 'cluster zoning,' the first town in Massachusetts to create special development by-laws that allowed sub-divisions of ten acres or more to create residential lots sized smaller that the required two acres and for them to have frontages that were less than the required existing laws permitted. [2]
- ↑ Estimate $29.50 rate; zoning law passed, The Andover Townsman, March 13, 1936.
- ↑ Clement, John Roland. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1966. M.C.P