Building Housing Over Single-Story Retail in Downtown or Main Street

Building Housing Over Single-Story Retail in Downtown or Main Street: Code Challenges and Alternatives By Shaler Campbell Master of City Planning, 2023 Department of Urban Studies & Planning Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA & Jeff Levine Lecturer Department of Urban Studies & Planning Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA

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Building Housing Over Single-Story Retail in Downtown or Main Street

Published on Aug 9, 2023

MIT DUSP

This memo is intended for municipal planners and officials who may not know all the details of building code but have an interest in promoting housing built over or within commercial uses. We seek to distill essential considerations for constructing housing above retail in a straightforward, singular document. Small municipalities do not always have architectural support in their planning departments, and this can get in the way of due diligence for complicated code and constructability projects. This memo seeks to clarify the litany of challenges that such a decision would create. We would always recommend that local planners and officials also consult with code enforcement officers and fire code experts in looking at this complex issue.

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