Foxborough, Mass.

What Is Planning?

Planning involves looking at multiple aspects of what comprises a community and figuring out the desired types and quantity of development to occur within that community and how best to achieve those goals through zoning and other means. Aspects to analyze include financial needs, infrastructure, conservation, recreation, transportation, residential, retail, and industrial uses and growth, and more.

Planning Information

Covid19 Grants & Information
• Small Business Covid19 MicroGrant Information
• Small Business MicroGrant
• SBA: Shuttered Venue Operators Grants - FAQ
• FY22 Small Business Technical Assistance Grant Program , Empower Digital Grant, & Biz-M-Power Grant


Municipal
• The Town adopted a Master Plan in 1971 and a new one was completed in 2014.
• Foxborough at APA MA Chapter
• The Board Of Selectmen created the Downtown Revitalization Committee on January 25, 1994.
• The Downtown Design & Zoning Implementation Committee was formed on January 25, 1995.
• Housing Production Plan Meeting on February 11, 2020
• Foxborough Housing Production Plan Draft #2 2021
• Foxborough Housing Coalition Show on #FCATV (31.29 minutes; you can watch or listen to it)
• Foxborough Housing Virtual TV Open House Summer 2020 on #FCATV (40.23 minutes; you can watch or listen to it)
• Housing with P. Duncan July 9, 2020 on #FCATV (28.13 minutes; you can watch or listen to it)
• Foxborough Housing Production Plan 2012
• Foxborough Housing Production Plan Draft 2020


• Zoning By-laws
• General By-laws
• Wetlands By-laws
• Fall 2011 STM Proposed By-Laws Articles
• Town of Foxborough Open Space & Recreation Plan & Conservation Land Rules & Regulations
• 2012 RFP – Town of Foxborough Economic Development Chapter & Downtown Strategic Plan
• 2013 RFQ: Sign By-Law – Town of Foxborough
• Patriot Place Mixed-Use Development Foxborough, MA
• Fiscal Impact Analysis For Patriot Place / "The KOFF Report" (2/2/2007)
• Patriot Place's "Foxborough Performance" Presentation (March 2013)
• DOWNTOWN ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS FOXBOROUGH, MA.
• Comprehensive Patriot Place Review Committee & Reports
• Chestnut Green
• Foxborough Plaza
• Proposed: Shoppes at Robinson Brook
• Growth Districts Initiative/Foxborough Growth District
  Site Boundaries: Along Route 1 | Land Area (acres): 500 acres | Anticipated Build-Out: 1.5M sf office , 150,000 sf retail (designated on November 20, 2008)
  "Growth District Communities
  Under its "Growth Districts Initiative", EOHED will partner with municipalities that have identified one or more areas within their communities as being appropriate locations for significant new growth, whether commercial, residential or mixed-use. Within those identified "growth districts", EOHED will work with the community and property owners to make the district truly "development ready" with respect to local permitting, state permitting, site preparation (including brownfields remediation), infrastructure improvements, and marketing. The objective will be to create a level of "development readiness" within each of these growth districts. The following is a list of the commnities along with site maps and summaries of the Growth District's build out potential."
  
  
• Interbasin Decision For Foxborough
• Senate No. 2349: Amendment to House Bill establishing a Regional Wastewater District for the Towns of Mansfield, Foxborough, and Norton
• House No. 4307: aAn Act Establishing a Regional Wastewater District for the Towns of Mansfield, Foxborough, and Norton.
  For legislation to establish the MFN water district. Approved, May 5, 2010.
• CPA Community Preservation Act
  Foxborough has given the state >$499,261.00 in CPA Funds since 2000. Foxborough received no money in return.^*
  "Community Preservation Act
  The CPA allows communities to create a local Community Preservation Fund to raise money through a surcharge of up to 3% of the real estate tax levy on real property for open space protection, historic preservation and the provision of affordable housing. The act also creates a significant state matching fund, which serves as an incentive to communities to pass the CPA."
  
  
• Labor Force and Unemployment August 2012
  Foxborough unemployed 466
• Labor Force and Unemployment November 2011
  Foxborough unemployed 548
• Planning Board Projects
• Former Foxborough State Hospital Redevelopment
• Foxborough State Hospital Master Plan
• Planning Board Studies
• Foxborough, MA Economic Development Plan
• Foxborough in Boston-Worcester-Providence Combined Statistical Area by Census.gov
• Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH MSA Core Statistical Area
• District Utility/Constructability Engineer, Pole Data, & Utility Contact Information for Foxborough
• DCAM - Foxborough State Hospital
• Foxborough Open Space & Recreation Plan
• Foxborough Open Space & Recreation Plan TOC & Info
• Neponset River Watershed Assessment
• Neponset River Watershed Summary
• CWMP ENF
• Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization
• Three Rivers Interlocal Council
• Metropolitan Area Planning Council
• Foxborough Demmographics
• Foxborough Public safety Building - KBA Associates
• Patriot Place Peer Review Fiscal Impact Study - Larry Koff
• Nadia Estates
• Rodman Industrial Park by Bay Colony Group
• NPP DEVELOPMENT
• Foxborough State Hospital - MacRostie Historic Advisors
• 495Partnership - Foxborough
• The Kraft Group - Real Estate Development
• MA Smart Growth - Chestnut Green

* Foxborough poulation estimated ~18,399.*

County

• Engineering Department
• Norfolk County Conservation District

State

• 495/MetroWest Development Compact Regional Study Regionally Significant Priority Development Areas
• SRPEDD Transportation
• Labor Force and Unemployment Data - Norfolk County
  
• 495/MetroWest Development Compact
• Super Cluster 2008
• Massachusetts Department of Transportation - Highway Traffic Engineering Section
• MassDOT Completed Studies
• Massachusetts Department of Transportation - Highway Traffic Engineering Section - FOXBOROUGH- ROADWAY RECONSTRUCTION IN THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT
• MassDevelopment
• Massachusetts Economic Development
• Labor Force Statistics and Unemployment Rates for each City or Town by Area
• Massachusetts Incentives/Policies for Renewables & Efficiency
• Massachusetts Technology Collaborative'S 2010 Index of the Massachusetts Innovation Economy
• Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection - In Foxborough
• Rt. 1 and I-95 South
• Green Communities - Grants Program
• Manuals, Publications & Forms - Doing Business With Us
• Grants
• EOPSS Funding & Training Opportunities
• Designated Growth District - Economic Development Overlay District in Foxborough
• Economic Development Incentive Program
• Massachusetts School Building Authority
• UMass Extension Home Lawn & Garden Information


• Chap. 21E: Massachusetts Oil and Hazardous Material Release Prevention Act
• Find out about waste sites in your area or anywhere in Massachusetts.
• 310 CMR 40.0000: Massachusetts Contingency Plan | Cleanup of Sites & Spills
• Foxborough Commuter Rail Feasibility Analysis Sept 1
• Draft Massachusetts DOT State Rail Plan - January 2018
• Resilience and Adaptation In New England (RAINE)
• Development Area Profiles - A Better City
• Rt. 1 and I-95_South-FinalScope_-1
• MASS Housing Partnership: Foxborough - Baker Street Apartments
• Massachusetts Downtown Initiative (MDI)
Federal

• Highway Traffic Noise Barriers at a Glance
• Highway Traffic Noise
• Planning, Environment, & Realty
• FHWA Water, Wetlands, and Wildlife
• FHWA State Plant Listings Massachusetts
• Army Corps of Engineers - New England District
• EPA
• EPA: Smart Growth
• USDA: MA Natural Resources Conservation Service - USDA: MA Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG)
• USDA:Web Soil Survey
• Find A Grant
• Census Quick Facts
• Census Fact Finder
• CFDA Numbers
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA)
• Federal Infrastructure Permitting Dashboard
• Our Environs: More Planning Information Related To Foxborough - 02035

Agencies

• Boston Region MPO
• Massachusetts Biotechnology Council
• State Of Massachusetts Sites and Buildings
• Center for Economic Development
• Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
• Massachusetts Department of Transportation
• Canoe River Aquifer Advisory Committee
• UMass Amherst: Wind Energy Center ? Presentations
• Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board
• Community Preservation Coalition
• I-95 Corridor Coalition
• MetroFuture
• 495/MetroWest Corridor Partnership, Inc.
• Metropolitan Area Planning Council - 2015 Report
• Institute of Transportation Engineers
• MassDevelopment - Regional Office
• Neponset Valley Transportation Management Agency
• Real Estate Services
• Governors' Institute on Community Design
• Massachusetts Alliance for Economic Development, Inc.
• Chapter 16 of the Acts of 1999
• Our Environs: More Planning Information Related To Foxborough - 02035

Foxborough Committees

• Economic Development Committee
• Agricultural Commission
• Canoe River Aquifer Advisory Committee
• Neponsett Reservoir Committee - 2
• Neponset Reservoir Reclamation Committee
• Industrial Development Finance Authority
• Foxborough Housing Authority
• Southeastern Massachusetts Commuter Rail Task Force
• Renewable Energy Advisory Committee
• Foxborough Fair Housing Committee

General Economic, Evironmental, and Other Related Studies & Sites

Found online and not comprehensive.

• Metropolitan Area Planning Council - Route 1 Study
• Downtown Foxborough Parking Analysis & Workshop
• MAPC's Downtown Foxborough Business Visioning
• National Main Street Center, Inc. ("Main Street"=Foxborough's Central Business District/Downtown Foxborough)
• Climate Resilient Land Use Strategies
• 2006 Waterbody Report for Neponset River
• Draft 495 Rail Study
• 2010 Commuter Feasibility Study Report
• Economic Development Overlay District in Foxborough
• Foxborough Commuter Rail Feasibility Analysis
• MHD/MEPA: Patriot Place 4/20/2007
• Future Conditions 2009
• Economic Development Master Plan
• 495/MetroWest Development Compact Regional Study
• Vanasse - Patriot Place
• I-95 South Corridor Transportation Study 2009
• Foxborough Route 1 Economic Development Study - December 2015

The Former Foxborough State Hospital

Found online and not comprehensive.

• Foxborough State Hospital Reuse Plan 2002
• Former Foxborough State Hospital
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts EOHHS Sites on State
• Foxborough State Hospital (2005)

Patriot Place & Route 1

• Quarter POint at Patriot Place

Concerns

• Housing for Foxborough Seniors
• Taxes Generated For Town (meals, rooms, property, etc.)
• State Revenue Generated & Local Aid Distribution amounts.
• Mitigation money (town, neighbors)
• Mitigation Type (town, neighbors, noise abatement, light dampening, etc.)
• Water and Sewer Requirements and Needs
• Crime (addiction, DUI, prostitution, etc.)
• Noise
• Lights
• Public Services (Fire, Police, School)
• Traffic (increase, accidents)
• Transportation (Route 1, Rail, Main Arteries, Side Roads)
• Houses/Apartments/Mobile Homes (Current Stock, Full Build-out Potential, Location)
• Character (small town, Patriot Place, Route 1, Chestnut Green, The "Gem" of Norfolk County, Foxborough State Hospital/Massachusetts Hospital for Dipsomaniacs & Inebriates, Town Common, Straw Hat Capital of the World, Bay State Raceway, New England Harness Raceway, Foxboro Raceway, home to the New England Patriots and New England Revolution, New England Tea Men, Shaeffer Stadium, Sullivan Stadium, Foxboro Stadium, CMGI Field, Gillette Stadium, F. Gilbert Hills State Forest, Harold B. Clark Town Forest)
• Labor Force (existing local unemployed, local percentage hire requirement, influx of new people, commuters)
• Flora (Water requirements, dimensions, number, type, location)
• Schools Needs
• Supporting Business Development (relocation, expanding, new)