Alternatives to MFCC Plan

Rezone the Minimal Amount of Land

The Planning Board owes it to the Town to present an option for MBTA Communities

compliance that minimizes impacts. The best way to do that is to rezone the minimum

amount of land required by the State. That’s only 6.3 acres.

• On 6.3 acres, particularly if an appropriate site is selected, there is very little chance 95 housing units could be built.

• There just isn’t room for the septic system, buildings, and recharge area for a large public well.

The current proposal from the Planning Board, Multi-Family Conservation Cluster plan, will spread multi-family housing across town on vastly expanded acreage. There is no way to limit development if extra acreage is rezoned. Look what just happened in Lexington. Lexington rezoned for over ten times as many housing units as required. The uptake was breathtakingly rapid, with over 1100 housing units in the pipeline by year-end. On March 17, Lexington Town Meeting voted overwhelmingly to curtail its ambitious MBTA Communities plan and scale back its multi-family housing districts. Carlisle may face a similar unfortunate situation if additional land is rezoned.

Overview of alternatives to the MFCC Plan

#	Possible Outcome at Fall Town Meeting
1	Non-compliance
2	MFCC
3	Mid scale on three 15 acre sites
4	Mid scale on many 5 acre sites
5	Large scale on 6.33 acre with added infrastructure.
6	Large scale on 6.33 designed to fail if/when development begins.
7	Mid Scale on total of 6.33 acres via Article 97