What this decidesWhether a town is about to cap, phase or slow the permits a project depends on.
Where and how fast a town allows development: growth caps and rate-of-growth ordinances, phasing, service-area boundaries, and the comprehensive-plan work behind them.Our definition of the class.
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Likely to gain: planning consultants (caps and service-area boundaries are set through commissioned comprehensive-plan work).
Likely affected: residential developers and builders (a rate-of-growth cap decides how many permits exist in a year, whatever the zoning allows).
Worth watching: landowners holding entitled parcels (phasing changes when an approval can actually be built).
The same class at a wider scope: Growth management in Maine · Growth management in New Hampshire · Growth management in Vermont · Growth management in Massachusetts · Growth management across the country.
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