Please
see yellow highlighted areas for comments submitted by Rich Lemoine, for 5-7-03
meeting.
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Preserve the
town’s rural character.
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Enhance the town
center.
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Provide buffers
between residential and other land uses.
· Maintain existing overall residential and commercial densities.
· Reference the towns present Zoning By Laws and make recommendations for update
· Protect, promote and improve appropriate access to natural and cultural resources with special emphasis on the river.
* Specifically look at Middlesex Road for prudent build out opportunities.
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Encourage new
housing development to fit into the existing design and character of the
community.
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Maintain existing
housing stock in good condition.
· Provide a diversity of housing types affordable to people with a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds.
· Recognize Tyngsborough’s DHCD Affordable Housing Plan as a tool to provide systematic growth and new housing opportunities.
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Provide excellent
public services and facilities; improve the relationship between schools and
the community.
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Increase the number
and type of social gatherings, community events and cultural activities.
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Identify if additional
public buildings or capital improvements are required (ie: senior center, fire
station…)
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Protect existing open
space and increase recreational facilities and opportunities.
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Preserve key open
space parcels.
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Improve public
awareness of open space and access to it.
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Maintain and manage
recreational resources efficiently.
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Develop trails and
greenways to link open space and provide access.
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Improve the Town
Center with open space elements.
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Protect upland buffers
to water and wetlands.
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Protect and enhance
wildlife habitat in and around water resources
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Identify the adequacy
of recreation fields for youth sports.
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Improve access among
locations within the Town and enhance access and connections to surrounding
communities.
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Provide additional
cross-river access.
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Improve traffic
safety.
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Provide appropriate
pedestrian and bicycle facilities.
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Increase public
transportation options.
Preserve the town’s rural character and enhance the town center.
· Preserve rural character.
· Retain farmland; support local growers and producers
· Hold events of traditional rural character (i.e. bean suppers, 4-H clubs)
· Have annual town day
· Identify those features of the Town which make it unique and define its character
· Enhance the town center
· Connect the various components of the center with walking paths and green space.
· Consider making the town center more dense.
Protect, promote and improve appropriate access to natural and cultural resources with special emphasis on the River.
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Maximize
the potential of the River as a recreational resource, focal point of the Town,
and explore its potential commercial benefits.
· Support ___ plans to develop bicycle/walking paths along the River’s edge.
· Work with the GLTS to develop a plan to increase access to the River.
· Promote recreational uses of the River.
· Acquire new property along the river while improving management of currently-owned property.
· Develop an outreach plan and expand media programs to educate citizens on the Town’s history and heritage.
· Promote/provide information about existing natural resources.
· Develop a natural and cultural resource management plan.
Expand the economic base in order to provide additional employment opportunities, goods and services currently lacking and to make Tyngsborough a destination location instead of a pass through Town.
· Increase cultural and artistic venues to attract visitors.
· Develop a marketing plan identifying natural and cultural resources and their connections so that visitors are given the sense of multiple reasons to come to Tyngsborough.
· Develop a plan to identify and encourage the type of businesses that would make the Town a destination location.
· Make better use of existing resources including open space, the old Town Hall and other resources as a way of attracting visitors.
· Identify and develop necessary infrastructure to support business growth.
· Consider developing commercial clusters in neighborhood locations.
· Expand, improve and promote historic district as a way to attract more businesses and shops as well as visitors.
· Develop business-friendly policies.
· Attract anchors and long-term establishments.
· Review potential economic development role of Middlesex Road area.
Provide a diversity of housing types affordable to people with a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds.
· Provide programs to assist first-time home-buyers.
· Develop grant structures to encourage the restoration and maintenance of older homes.
· Continue with the current CPA program.
· Consider limiting “tear downs” and rebuilding of very large homes (“mansionization”).
· Consider zoning and other land use regulations to help increase housing densities in locations identified as desirable for such housing (e.g. inclusionary zoning, incentive zoning, cluster zoning, encouraging accessory apartments)
· Delineate areas of town where multi-family housing is appropriate and desirable.
· Develop a pro-active plan for 40B housing to guide such development in a way that is best suited to the Town.
Provide excellent public services and facilities; improve the relationship between schools and the community,; increase the number and type of social gatherings, community events and cultural activities.
· Increase community involvement in the schools.
· Incorporate local history into the school curriculum.
· Involve students in community activities.
· Open schools after hours for use by the community.
Increase the number and vary the type of social gatherings, community events and cultural activities.
· Provide appropriate space for social and community events.
· Increase the number and types of activities available.
Provide efficient and effective services and well-maintained facilities.
· Improve water and sewage services and infrastructure.
· Improve emergency response time in some neighborhoods.
· Support proposal to combine Senior Center, Fire Station and Police sub-station.
Protect existing open space and increase recreational facilities and opportunities.
· Increase access to the River and develop a bicycle/walking path.
· Develop a system of open spaces linked by bicycle and walking trails.
· Improve public awareness and access of existing resources by providing information regarding existing resources.
· Develop a plan which prioritizes open space parcels in terms of their desirability for protection measures.
· Explore various means of protecting open space including alternatives to purchasing.
· Create more open space in the Town Center.
· Protect remaining large parcels, scenic and cultural landscapes.
· Ensure environmentally healthy water and wetland resources.
· Ensure efficient management and maintenance of open space and recreational areas.
Improve access among locations within the Town and enhance access and connections to surrounding communities.
· Establish a railroad train station.
· Enhance LRTA services.
· Improve transportation connections with Lowell and Nashua.
· Develop a sidewalk plan prioritizing needed links between pubic facilities, schools, and other centers of activity and neighborhoods.
· Support plans for constructing a second bridge.
· Improve traffic flow by improving signage, enforcing traffic laws, introducing traffic calming measures and other means.
· Plan for temporary traffic problems by requiring that developers submit projected traffic impacts of construction projects.
· Identify problem areas and upgrade major secondary roads which need improvements.