One of the biggest issues in the greater Boston area is the close proximity of single family suburbs to the downtown area…however, the difference between metro Boston and the seacoast is about 3 million people. Their crisis is rooted in centuries of slow development from single, to double, to triple family homes.

Vertical building on the seacoast likely would consist of 3-4 story townhomes or apartment complexes, rather than 15-20 story highrises. Dover and Portsmouth aren’t high rise cities surrounded by well established suburbs, it’s basically suburbs surrounded by undeveloped land. The seacoast runs the risk of establishing spread out suburbs doing stuff like OP posted.

Rather than pigeonholing itself into slow development, the seacoast area could be relatively innovative and prioritize townhomes, triplexes, and apartment buildings, rather than standalone single family homes. This would allow people currently living in the city to stay in the city that they enjoy

Boston is dealing with an even worse affordability/ availability crisis at the moment, so I can’t imagine “handing over” part of a state is good for much other than a thinly veiled meme excuse for “keeping things the way they are”, which is typically bad for business, diversity, education, investment, ecology, etc…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. This isn’t the type of building that really helps take a chunk out of the work-force-housing availability/affordability crisis. These aren’t anywhere near walkable jobs, aren’t own-able, and are a inefficient in terms of utilities.

To really make a dent, these cities and towns need be building vertical, high density, multi-story/multi-family housing.

Conway planning and zoning dept is a meme. Just give the guy an after-the-fact sign permit and move past it.

Jeez, people will do anything to avoid building high density/multi family structures.

I’m willing to bet tygarts puts up a temporary fence across the 5 yard line for game day

I would say that geographies features would be necessary border conditions

Wasnt there a court case about this earlier in the pandemic? I don’t recall the outcome though

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