1. What is Your Vision for Newburyport?

2. “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”
Yogi Berra
Why do We Need a Vision?
Newburyport's Master Plan Update Project – Community Meeting, March 12, 2014

3. Environmental Quality
Vision
Shaping Our Future,
Honoring Our Past
Guiding Principles
Environmental Quality
Economic Vitality
Social Equity
Newburyport’s 2001 Plan
Newburyport's Master Plan Update Project – Community Meeting, March 12, 2014

4. 2001 Priorities for Action Central Riverfront Concerns Actions
Relationship with central business district
Public open space
Retention of adequate parking
Actions
Conduct feasibility study
Create new parking facilities
Improve pedestrian and vehicular circulation
Progress?
Partial
2001 Priorities for Action
Newburyport's Master Plan Update Project – Community Meeting, March 12, 2014

5. 2001 Priorities for Action Industrial Park Concerns Actions Progress?
Encourage growth in park
Growth = Environmental Threat?
Comprehensive wetlands mapping
Revise zoning to encourage appropriate development
Create better access to park
Progress?
Ramping Up
2001 Priorities for Action
Newburyport's Master Plan Update Project – Community Meeting, March 12, 2014

6. Residential Subdivisions
Actions
Concerns
Inappropriate design
Loss of open space
Create residential design review criteria/process
Identify key open spaces for protection
Progress?
Partial
2001 Priorities for Action
Newburyport's Master Plan Update Project – Community Meeting, March 12, 2014

7. Infill Development in Older Neighborhoods
Concerns
Actions
Inappropriate building expansion
Demolition of historic structures
Increase in physical density
Create an LHD
Adopt Demo Delay
Create “McMansion” zoning
Progress?
Substantial
2001 Priorities for Action
Newburyport's Master Plan Update Project – Community Meeting, March 12, 2014

8. 2001 Priorities for Action Affordable Housing Concerns Actions
No “starter homes”
High rental rates
Loss of economic diversity
Adopt Inclusionary zoning
Incentives for developers
Reuse of surplus City property
Progress?
Moderate
2001 Priorities for Action
Newburyport's Master Plan Update Project – Community Meeting, March 12, 2014

9. Preservation of Newburyport’s Historic Character
Actions
Concerns
Few regulatory controls
Zoning does not “match”
Create an LHD
Adopt design review
Amend zoning – setback requirements
Progress?
Moderate
2001 Priorities for Action
Newburyport's Master Plan Update Project – Community Meeting, March 12, 2014

10. Infrastructure Investments
Concerns
Actions
Capacity of water supply system
Aging wastewater treatment system
Ability to accommodate growth
Create Capital Improvement Program
Budgeting for long-term maintenance
Maximize use of existing facilities
Progress?
Substantial
2001 Priorities for Action
Newburyport's Master Plan Update Project – Community Meeting, March 12, 2014

11. Are these priorities still relevant?
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12. What Actions Should the City Continue to Work On?
= Stop Working on This
= Keep Working on This
What Concerns and Actions Should
be in the 2014 Plan?
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14. Questions or Comments? Visit
for more information, including:
A link to the 2001 Master Plan
Project Schedules
Meeting Agendas
Committee Lists and Contact Information
Andy R. Port, AICP Director of Planning
Kate Newhall-Smith Staff Planner
Questions or Comments?
Newburyport's Master Plan Update Project – Community Meeting, March 12, 2014