Planning Board Seeks Public Input on Winchester Town Center Initiative

Photo Credit: Winchester Town Center website.

Residents are invited to help plan the future of downtown Winchester at a meeting in February.

The Winchester Planning Board is holding their first Community Conversation to discuss the Center Business District rezone effort.

The rezone effort plans to improve the housing and businesses of the Winchester Town Center, according to the Winchester Town Center website.

Some aspects of the downtown that need to be improved, according to the Town’s Master Planning process, are the limited parking, inadequate pedestrian circulation paths, poor business recruitment and marketing, fragmented ownership, out-of-date zoning and building codes and flooding.

The meeting was originally scheduled for Tuesday, but it was rescheduled due to the 29 inches of snow that fell in Winchester.

The Community Conversation will be held at 7:30 p.m on Tuesday, Feb. 10 in the Board of Selectmen’s room at the Winchester Town Hall, 71 Mount Vernon St.

The Winchester Planning Board has finished their draft for release to the public for the CBD rezone effort.

This meeting will be the first of several information sessions that will be held throughout the next three months leading up to the Spring Town Meeting of 2015, according to the Town of Winchester website.

For more information on the future of downtown Winchester, visit the Winchester Town Center website.

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