Norton Juster, Amherst’s late, great author, is famous for his fantastic story, “The Phantom Tollbooth.” It would amuse him to know that now Amherst has its own phantom tollbooth. Well, not exactly a tollbooth. It’s a phantom parking garage.This North.
Norton Juster, Amherst’s late, great author, is famous for his fantastic story, “The Phantom Tollbooth.” It would amuse him to know that now Amherst has its own phantom tollbooth. Well, not exactly a tollbooth. It’s a phantom parking garage.This North.
AMHERST Rasif Rafiq often hears complaints from his customers at Bistro 63/Monkey Bar that too little parking exists close to the North Pleasant Street restaurant.“I can’t say enough how helpful another parking lot would be in Amherst,” Rafiq told.
AMHERST Rasif Rafiq often hears complaints from his customers at Bistro 63/Monkey Bar that too little parking exists close to the North Pleasant Street restaurant.“I can’t say enough how helpful another parking lot would be in Amherst,” Rafiq told.
Zoning changes to mandate more affordable housing in Amherst
Amherst Town Hall GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST As Amherst continues to miss its goal of developing around 50 affordable housing units annually, town planners are crafting zoning revisions requiring developers to include homes in their projects for low- and moderate-income households.
In what members of the Planning Department describe as a significant amendment, all development of townhouses, apartments, mixed-use buildings and planned unit residential developments, or PURDs, with more than nine units, will be required to include affordable units as well as market-rate housing.
“This is a really big change,” Senior Planner Nathaniel Malloy told the Town Council during a presentation this week.