Comprehensive Planning

Master Plan

Town of Lynnfield, MA

Building on an earlier public participation process defining the town’s goals and objectives, the Collaborative prepared a comprehensive master plan for the Town of Lynnfield, MA.
Lynnfield had some specific issues with regard to the future of its development. First, Lynnfield is a town with very little remaining vacant developable land. Second, it is a town that wants to achieve a better balance in its property tax base. Third, Lynnfield has relatively large areas devoted to open space, some of which are important wildlife “core habitat” resource areas. Taking these specific concerns to mind along with other planning issues, the Collaborative created a complete plan for the development of Lynnfield, detailing the means and tactics to achieving sustainable development in the years to come.

This is best summed up by Richard O’Neil, Chairman of the Lynnfield Planning Board when he remarked, “You have presented us with a fresh approach to problems that seem to be descending on Eastern Massachusetts towns at an alarming rate. Your anticipation of these problems helped us greatly to foresee how to turn what may initially be perceived as problems into opportunities. The possibilities and solutions present in your report forewarned and informed townspeople as even now the realities are coming before us.”