Under the direction of the Urban Land Institute’s Boston District Council, the Marlborough Technical Assistance Panel (TAP) convened in Marlborough on September 18, 2013, bringing together stakeholders, including city, business, and community leaders, and a panel of land use and development professionals to focus on the Downtown and the lower French Hill Districts, specifically on strategies to strengthen and revitalize both districts and to effectively attract appropriate new development.
The panel was also asked to examine the current land use and zoning regulations,
and to consider strategies to incentivize new development through possible zoning amendments and/or creative finance methods. The report that follows summarizesthe TAP recommendations in ve chapters.