Cohousing-L Mailing List: Need Zoning Law Expertise

[Ellis Cohen (e.cohen]

We're planning to build a dense 30 unit cohousing project on a 
relatively small plot of land near the downtown area of a small city in 
the Boston area.  To facilitate permitting, our supporters on the city 
council are trying to define a new cohousing zoning category. However, a 
number of them are concerned about finding a legal and enforceable way 
to define this category, that would, at the same time, preclude a 
developer from creating a dense rental apartment building with similar 
dimensional characteristics.

If you know of someone who is doing or has done research on zoning law, 
that could be helpful to our situation, I'd appreciate it if you could 
put us in contact with one another.

Thanks

Ellis Cohen
e.cohen [at] acm.org
Bay State Commons