By Doug La Rocque
With several two-family and multi-family housing applications before the Brunswick Planning Board in 2021, residents and some Planners started expressing concerns about density, especially with some of these proposed housing units in areas they felt were not a good fit. The concern reached the Town Board, who decided they should review their zoning as to where and where not these projects might be allowed. Thus, the moratorium came into being while that zoning study took place.
One plan that was proposed resulted in a full zoning law change, but met with some push back at a public hearing, and Board members decided to pull it. The next change that was proposed dealt with only the areas of concern and instituted a density calculation factor that Planners would have to incorporate into any site plan deliberations on housing. That zoning change was approved in December and the moratorium was no longer needed. At the Thursday, January 12 Town Board gathering, a local law repealing the moratorium was approved.