Amendment ID: S3050-267

Amendment 267

Housing Production Incentives

Messrs. Finegold and Cyr move that the proposed new draft be amended by adding the following section:-

SECTION X. All discretionary or competitive grant programs made available in this act for which eligible recipients include municipalities or other regional public entities comprised of municipalities shall include a preference modifier for applicants or prospective recipients that have zoning or land use policies, as determined by the executive office of housing and livable communities, that encourage the production of housing sufficient to meet commonwealth housing goals. Said polices may include, but need not be limited to, as-of-right zoning capacity for multifamily housing that provides real opportunity to build housing in appropriate areas, the elimination of parking minimums for residential use, the elimination of restrictive lot size requirements, and wastewater and wetlands standards that do not exceed state health or environmental standards. A regional or other partnership of 2 or more municipalities shall only be eligible for such preference modifier if the applicable requirements in all included municipalities are met. The executive office of administration and finance, in consultation with the executive office of environmental affairs and the executive office of housing and livable communities, shall issue guidelines to administer this section.