Community Housing Survey Available

Open Wednesday February 22nd through Sunday March 19th

The Town of Chatham, along with Consultants Barrett Planning Group and Dodson & Flinker, have issued an ONLINE HOUSING SURVEY as part of a community engagement and visioning process to look at possible affordable and attainable housing development scenarios for the recently purchased properties on Main Street, West Chatham (the former Buckley property) and Meetinghouse Road, South Chatham (the former Diocese of Fall River property). 

The survey follows two community outreach forums in December and February, where several design concepts were presented to illustrate the development potential of each site. The concepts presented, which are available on the Town of Chatham’s Housing webpage, do not represent official plans for either property, but rather are for discussion purposes to allow the community to respond to a range of options for housing types and overall site configuration. 

The survey provides the opportunity for the Chatham community to provide feedback directly to questions on each of the concept designs, as well as more nuanced visual preference questions relating to architecture, landscaping, building form and type, and site layout. This will allow Dodson & Flinker to refine preferred concepts based upon community feedback received from the February meeting as well as the online survey.

Click here to take ONLINE HOUSING SURVEY

Next Steps

Following the online survey, the Select Board/Affordable Housing Trust/Town Staff will determine preferred concepts for Dodson & Flinker to refine, incorporating input from both community meetings and the online survey. Revised preferred sketches will be shared at the third and final community engagement meeting of this process this spring, date to be announced. The design concepts for each site will ultimately inform Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for future development in keeping with a grounded, feasible community vision for each site. This visioning exercise is the beginning of a longer-term development process; following this engagement effort, the Town will begin to focus on the development of each parcel.