{"id":3701,"date":"2025-03-25T12:19:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/planning\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2025-03-25T12:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:19:54","slug":"accessory-dwelling-unit-bylaw-updates","status":"public-archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/planning\/2025\/03\/25\/accessory-dwelling-unit-bylaw-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessory Dwelling Unit Bylaw Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Planning Board held a Public Hearing on Wednesday, February 26, 2025 to review and recommend an amendment of Section 5500 &#8211; Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU) in Residence Districts and Section 7110 \u2013 Definitions and word usage. The proposed changes to the ADU Bylaw are in response to the passage of the Affordable Homes Act, which requires all municipalities in the Commonwealth to allow the creation of ADUs By-Right.<\/p>\n<p>Please click <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.sudbury.ma.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/328\/2025\/03\/ADU_Revision_of_article_format_FINAL.pdf?version=482a8ed803332e5d0c2a5f3690f9dd5b\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to view FINAL version of the Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU) Bylaw that the Planning Board has recommended for the May 5, 2025 Annual Town Meeting. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accessory Dwelling Unit Bylaw Updates &#8211; May 5, 2025 Annual Town Meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/planning\/2025\/03\/25\/accessory-dwelling-unit-bylaw-updates\/\" aria-label=\"Read full article about Accessory Dwelling Unit Bylaw Updates\">Read full article<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":3703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1,6,114],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3706,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions\/3706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}