CONWAY — To encourage cluster construction of affordable smaller homes, a zoning amendment proposed by first-year Conway Planning Board member Earl Sires would cut in half Conway's minimum lot size from one half acre to one quarter acre and allow double the density on additional square footage of a lot.
Entitled “Special Exception for Compact Cluster Housing Developments,” the proposed ordinance will be addressed by the planning board along with other proposed and petitioned special articles at a public hearing at the board’s next meeting Jan. 28.
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