Zoning in Andover Massachusetts

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Andover's first zoning by-law was enacted at the March 9, 1936 Annual Town Meeting. [1] [2] The Town of Andover's first Planning Board had been voted into law ten years earlier. [3]

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. [4] [5] [6] [7]

  1. Estimate $29.50 rate; zoning law passed, The Andover Townsman, March 13, 1936.
  2. Andover Zoning Law Approved, The Boston Globe, April 12, 1936.
  3. Annual Report for the Town of Andover, 1926
  4. Clement, John Roland. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1966. M.C.P
  5. First cluster zoning in state The Boston Globe, January 21, 1962.
  6. All eyes on Andover cluster development, The Boston Globe, November 20, 1961.
  7. New cluster zoned houses for Andover, The Boston Globe, January 14, 1962.