Public Records
See below for correspondence between
Carlisle's Town Planner and the EOHLC
Our Town Planner was told conclusively in August that the "development area" strategy could only be used for a single parcel. But the Planning Board proceeded with the Legal Ad and consultant work on both the cluster and scattered options anyway.
The Town Planner was warned in July that the "development area" concept could only be used for a single parcel.
But all 3 of the considered strategies relied on using the development area concept to limit the buildable space on a larger parcel. Here it is being used on a "cluster."
The Planning Board knew in May that Carlisle's MBTA zoning strategies would have to meet the 50% contiguity requirement, but they did not share this with the public until after Town Meeting and the town election.
At that time they were only seriously pursuing the scattered strategy, and they knew it was not compliant.
In March, our Town Planner was in discussions with EOHLC about whether land could be excluded based on nitrogen loading. It can't. The scattered strategy relied entirely on this exclusion then.
This email discusses other compliance matters such as building size.
The Planning Board was certain they could write a condition that would make multi-family developments ineligible for a Protected Use ADU.
They can't do that either. Any parcel with multi-family units built using the MBTA Communities overlay zoning will also be eligible for a Protected Use ADU.
