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Carlisle Alliance for Preservation

MFCC at a Glance

The Planning Board has extensively studied and promoted what they refer to as their multi-family conservation cluster plan, or MFCC.

This plan calls for creating 32 or more rezoning overlays throughout town on land already developed. These properties could theoretically be redeveloped into small clusters of 3 units or more.

The top 3 photos below are from the Loomis Street MBTA development in Bedford.

Planning Board's Current Potential Sites
for MBTA Community Development

Previous zoning overlay by the Planning Board of areas under consideration.

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The Risks that the MFCC Plan Poses for Carlisle

The MBTA law allows up to 15 units to be constructed by right, which means the town’s zoning cannot impose a more restrictive limit.
The Planning Board’s MFCC plan assumes that Title V will allow them to limit the number of units to three. However, the law does not permit them to do so with zoning bylaws, and there are ways to develop for more density with newer septic technologies that are already available. Also, if a public wastewater treatment facility was constructed, there would be nothing to constrain the development of 15 housing units on an acre.

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Bad for Preservation

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Bad for Sustainability

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Bad for Abutters

Housing Development

Bad for Health & Safety

Bad for Your Taxes

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