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Taunton Today Also Suggests a Range of Opportunities for Taunton Tomorrow Including the Following TAUNTON TODAY Existing Conditions Report for the Taunton Tomorrow Master Plan Prepared for: City of Taunton Consultant team: Stantec’s Urban Places Hodge Economic Consulting Bonnie Heudorfer Housing Consultant September 2017 Table of Contents 1.0 TAUNTON IN TRANSITION .............................................................................................. II 2.0 THE TAUNTON COMPREHENSIVE MASTER PLAN .......................................................... 1 3.0 DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIOECONOMIC TRENDS ..................................................... 4 4.0 DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS AND LAND USE ................................................................. 12 5.0 TAUNTON’S NATURAL HERITAGE ................................................................................ 18 6.0 TAUNTON’S HISTORIC RESOURCES ............................................................................. 23 7.0 HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOODS ............................................................................ 26 8.0 TAUNTON’S ECONOMY .............................................................................................. 29 9.0 COMMUNITY SYSTEMS ................................................................................................ 37 10.0 COMMUNITY FACILITIES AND SERVICES..................................................................... 48 11.0 LAND USE REGULATION .............................................................................................. 49 i 1.0 TAUNTON IN TRANSITION Taunton is one of Massachusetts’ “Gateway Cities,” a mid-sized city transitioning from its historic identity as an industrial powerhouse for more than 150 years to a new, 21st century role as a complete city that combines a vibrant downtown core, a diverse mix of opportunities in housing and jobs, and exceptional access to nature recreation. At times the transition has been difficult, but with diligent efforts and strong partners the city has been laying the foundation for transformation through investment in industrial parks, infrastructure, downtown revitalization, brownfields remediation, and environmental improvements. Taunton was among the earliest European communities in colonial Massachusetts, dating from 1638 when settlers from Plymouth purchased land from Native Americans in today’s East Taunton. Taunton became a manufacturing center early in its history. Shipbuilding and iron production were important by the end of the seventeenth century. The ironworks led to production of nails, stoves, and ironware and, in the nineteenth century, brick mills, cotton textile mills, silversmiths were established and surrounded by worker housing in the Weir, Whittenton, Hopewell, Westville, and East Taunton. Population grew quickly as immigrants from Ireland, England, Canada, Portugal, Italy, and Cape Verde arrived to work in the factories. The Taunton River and, after 1835, the Taunton Branch Railroad shipped grain from rural areas and Taunton’s manufactures to the rest of the country. In the twentieth century, despite some industrial decline, Taunton weathered the Great Depression of the 1930s with resilient industries such as stove and furnace production. The city’s population stagnated through the 1920s and 1930 but continuing small but steady growth through the 1970s helped the city support major capital improvements such as water and wastewater treatment plants and establishment of the Myles Standish Industrial Park. The 1980s and 1990s brought a modest surge of population and business growth and interstate 495 connected the industrial park to the region, helping it become very successful. The Silver City Galleria Mall thrived in the 1990s but devastated downtown retail. The Great Recession of 2007-2009 hit Taunton hard and it has taken ten years for the city to begin to recover. New housing production slowed even before the recession and is gradually growing. The mall has struggled as a retail destination, replacing closed stores with new tenants, such as Bristol Community College. The combination of public improvements, property owners joining in a business improvement district, and enhanced promotion has renewed the potential for downtown. The Myles Standish Industrial Park—very successful and now the largest in New England—has expanded into the former Paul Dever State School site. At the same time, services have become the biggest employment sector in Taunton, as is the case in the state overall. City investments in water, wastewater, and transportation infrastructure are building the foundation for future success, in some cases replacing pipes from the 1870s. Since 2010, Taunton leaders and many residents placed their hopes for Taunton’s transformation in two new projects—a South Coast Rail commuter rail station at Arlington Street near downtown and a resort casino. As of this writing, the outcome for both these projects is unclear. A commuter rail station in the east side of Taunton near the mall, which would not support downtown or Taunton’s urban core, is slated for an interim Phase 1 of South Coast Rail, with the Arlington Street station to open later under an as-yet unfunded Phase 2. The Mashpee Wampanoag casino project, which would provide payments to city government and jobs, is in litigation, with negative court decisions so far. ii The Taunton Tomorrow master plan is an opportunity for Taunton residents, businesses, and other stakeholders to understand where Taunton is today, create an inspiring vision for where they want Taunton to be in 2040, and develop the strategies and actions needed to pursue that vision. While Taunton has made strong progress in recent years, it still faces many challenges. This report on Taunton Today also suggests a range of opportunities for Taunton Tomorrow including the following: . Continued revitalization of downtown with housing, arts and culture, and entertainment . Continued brownfields remediation to help create destination clusters in historic villages . Enhancement and promotion of Taunton’s nature recreation opportunities with biking walking, and boating connections . Diversification of economic development and job creation, including new industrial park opportunities iii iv v vi vii 2.0 THE TAUNTON COMPREHENSIVE MASTER PLAN A. What is A COMPREHENSIVE Master Plan? State Requirements The purpose of a comprehensive master plan is to MGL, Chapter 41, Section 81D requires influence the future—creating a framework to help a Massachusetts municipalities to prepare and adopt community be proactive to achieve a desired future, a master plan including these elements at a especially the long-term physical development of the minimum: community. Master plans typically have a time horizon . Goals and policies statement, based on an of ten to twenty years. The Taunton Tomorrow plan is interactive public process. Land use plan element, current and proposed looking forward to 2040. Taunton’s comprehensive distribution of land use. master planning process has three basic parts: . Housing element, existing and forecasted housing needs and objectives. Visioning. Taunton community members will . Economic development element, for the develop a consensus around a positive vision of a expansion or stabilization of the local economic future shared destiny. What are our values? What base and the promotion of employment opportunities. kind of community and place do we want . Natural and cultural resources element, Taunton to be in the future? What should we with an inventory of the significant natural, preserve and what do we need to change? cultural, and historic resource areas and strategies for the protection and management . Planning. In order to achieve the vision, we need of such areas. broad goals for a variety of interrelated topics and . Open space and recreation element, with an inventory of recreational and open space areas a set of strategies to reach the goals. and strategies for the management and protection of such areas. Implementing. The plan will include an . Services and facilities element to analyze implementation plan to put the strategies into existing and forecasted needs for public action: priorities, responsible parties, a timeline facilities and services. and resources. Circulation element, with an inventory of existing and proposed circulation and transportation systems. The 2017 Master Plan project also includes creation of . Implementation program element which a separate Housing Production Plan to help Taunton defines and schedules the specific municipal provide affordable housing and work towards the actions necessary to achieve the objectives of state goal of 10% affordable housing units. each element of the master or study plan. A master plan is adopted by a Planning Board vote B. THE 1998 TAUNTON MASTER PLAN after a public hearing and can be amended by the Planning Board after a public hearing. Taunton’s last master plan was adopted in 1998. The plan’s introduction began with a brief vision statement: “Taunton residents envision a city that grows and changes in a manner that preserves Taunton’s unique urban/rural setting, nurturing a vibrant downtown, village centers, and peaceful residential areas. We envision a City that protects the community’s historic character and develops so that new growth shares that same quality of design. “ 1998 Master Plan Community Priorities During the community planning process, the following priorities emerged. Although much progress has been made on some of these priorities, others continue to be important to the future of the city. Open
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