JAHC makes recommendations for Jericho Town Plan

The JAHC presented recommendations for the Town Plan to the Jericho Planning Commission on August 1st in response to the first draft of Volume 1. Read the document and see the presentation slides here.

The Town of Jericho needs to commit to:

Creating the conditions necessary for growing and diversifying our population by offering housing choices for all - to be affordable to and meet the needs of a wide range of individuals and household types in order to achieve Jericho’s Housing Target Resolution by:

- Land use regulations that support the creation of compact and diverse housing that is affordable to low- and middle-income households in all of Jericho, appropriate to the land use area priorities by June 2024

- Using Natural Resource and water/wastewater mapping to inform land use and identify areas appropriate for new housing, available by November 2023

- Ensuring our development regulations and review procedures are clear, predictable, sensible and timely to increase the rate of new dwelling unit construction to goal of 30 new housing units per year starting in 2024

- Investing in community infrastructure critical to support infill and denser development in compact mixed-use centers. Completing the first community wastewater project by 2028.

- Increase municipal capacity to facilitate and enable steps necessary to meet the above commitments for vote at 2024 Town Meeting.