If Lowell is your home, this is your place

Maybe they’ll convene another group to tackle the bigger issue. Getting the City Council to read the recently published zoning audit that showed almost 50% of existing houses in Lowell don’t conform to current requirements. If a neighborhood has 50’ frontages; the requirements are 55’. If the existing lots are 30’ the requirement is 35’. The same applies for lot size. We don’t need a brain trust to develop a solution; we’ve know the solution for decades. Form Based Code. Not only will our current zoning not spur development; it’s implicitly written to restrict any reasonable neighborhood development. It’s plainly “Anti-Housing”. We still have “single family” zones in almost every neighborhood! Lowell is in the zoning Stone Age. The idea that the current city council would implement ideas that come from this summit is like saying the ancient Egyptians are going to colonize Mars. We need representation that actually wants more housing, not a panel of experts to tell us we need it.