Dover Rezoning Committee meets Thursday
Planning Board subcommittee plans to finalize zoning recommendations
![Dover Assistant City Manager Christopher Parker has assisted with city's rezoning committee, which may make its final recommendations at its meeting Thursday. [John Huff/Fosters.com file]](/gcdn/authoring/2019/06/05/NFDD/ghows-FD-8a99bea9-edb0-1350-e053-0100007f0f75-b1da76da.jpeg?width=660&height=455&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
DOVER — The city’s rezoning committee may meet for its final time Thursday evening as it plans to finalize its recommendations to the Planning Board.
The Planning Board subcommittee has been meeting for the past year with a mission to find areas along traffic corridors that could be suitable for commercial uses. Any recommendations the committee makes would have to be approved by the Planning Board and then by the City Council.
The areas of land the committee has expressed support for rezoning at its meeting last month are around exits 7, 8 and 9 of the Spaulding Turnpike. The committee also voiced support for sections on Route 108 and Route 9.
In total, the committee could recommend rezoning about 360 acres of land in the city from residential to non-residential uses. That would decrease the overall property zoned residential by 2 percent and leave Dover with 81 percent of its land zoned residential, according to city documents. Parker said he would ask the members to prioritize their recommendations at the next meeting.
The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. in at Dover City Hall in its second-floor conference room.