Purpose, Program Overview

(1) 760 CMR 69.00 establishes rules, standards, and procedures for an optional housing program for Massachusetts municipalities called the Starter Home Zoning District Program created by M.G.L. c. 40Y. EOHLC is the regulatory agency for the program and is authorized to issue regulations to explain and to provide specifics of the program and its operation. (2) 760 CMR 69.00 describes the process by which Municipalities may propose, for review and approval by EOHLC, new Starter Home zoning provisions that allow As-of-right development of modest-size single-family homes up to 1,850 square feet, including homes affordable to households with annual incomes less than 110% of the Area Median Income, at a minimum density of four units per net acre of Developable Land within corresponding, EOHLC-approved base or overlay zoning districts.