Marlow Master Plan - Survey Response - Business and Economics
Communication
• Access to choice of high-speed Internet
• Better cell service
• Develop infrastructure to support home businesses
• More education for landowners on preservation
• Strike balance between appropriate business growth and quality of life
Directory
• Industry historical index – past & present – currently 38 businesses, mostly sole proprietors
• Audio Accessories
• Kroka Expeditions
Gas Station
• … and a gas station (more of a community store)
• Encourage a Mr. Mike's (especially for snowmobilers in winter... we are at a crossroads)
• Gas?
• Gas station (2)
• Would like a gas station again, cars, boats & snowmobiles would use it
•
Grocery Store
• General store!
• Lovely to have a Marlow grocery store again & a diner
• Marlow Village store
• Store (2)
• Store – village
• We need a store!
Other Businesses
• Bed & breakfast (2)
• Coffee shop/tea room
• CVS to come to Marlow
• Diner
• Encourage local-type businesses
• Encourage a restaurant or a bed & breakfast that has inexpensive lunches & dinners.
• Home business – Zoning? Signs?
• No large stores (Dollar Store, etc.)
• Restaurant
Taxes
• All must be done without any tax increase.
• Historic tax credits & open space (revisit)
• New business – tax credit (1890 town offered the credit after tannery closed)
• Tax breaks for agricultural use
Housing & Population
Camping
• No trailer parks/”campgrounds” (RV parks)
• People living all year round in a camper in someone's yard. Doesn't that require a camp permit?
Cluster Housing
• Cluster housing is okay & saves on communal areas
• Cluster zoning
Energy
• Energy audits, encouraging citizens to do them
• Sustainable & energy efficiency grants, both individual and town
Housing
• Building codes (?) in Marlow?
• Creative solutions for affordable housing
• No large housing developments that are not tasteful & in keeping with the look of Marlow
• See Zoning - Land Use
Limits
• Discuss/explore the need for growth vs. quality of rural location
• Draw in more families (younger people)
• Limit growth +/-
• Limit/qualify type of high density housing
• More R2 (2 or more acre zoning) near town center
• Town center increase population – leave outlaying areas for rural/ag. use
• Waterfront development – limited by (state) zoning
• Zoning needs to protect rural quality
Senior Housing
• I could see in the future a large log home (like one in Marlborough on the main drag – the demo - Real Log Home – Senior housing with huge common room & greenhouse, each have small apt.
• Percentage of workforce housing (ie. working people making $50,000 or less) - % of growth – state requirement
• Plan for aging population
• Some kind of senior housing in Marlow.
• Access to choice of high-speed Internet
• Better cell service
• Develop infrastructure to support home businesses
• More education for landowners on preservation
• Strike balance between appropriate business growth and quality of life
Directory
• Industry historical index – past & present – currently 38 businesses, mostly sole proprietors
• Audio Accessories
• Kroka Expeditions
Gas Station
• … and a gas station (more of a community store)
• Encourage a Mr. Mike's (especially for snowmobilers in winter... we are at a crossroads)
• Gas?
• Gas station (2)
• Would like a gas station again, cars, boats & snowmobiles would use it
•
Grocery Store
• General store!
• Lovely to have a Marlow grocery store again & a diner
• Marlow Village store
• Store (2)
• Store – village
• We need a store!
Other Businesses
• Bed & breakfast (2)
• Coffee shop/tea room
• CVS to come to Marlow
• Diner
• Encourage local-type businesses
• Encourage a restaurant or a bed & breakfast that has inexpensive lunches & dinners.
• Home business – Zoning? Signs?
• No large stores (Dollar Store, etc.)
• Restaurant
Taxes
• All must be done without any tax increase.
• Historic tax credits & open space (revisit)
• New business – tax credit (1890 town offered the credit after tannery closed)
• Tax breaks for agricultural use
Housing & Population
Camping
• No trailer parks/”campgrounds” (RV parks)
• People living all year round in a camper in someone's yard. Doesn't that require a camp permit?
Cluster Housing
• Cluster housing is okay & saves on communal areas
• Cluster zoning
Energy
• Energy audits, encouraging citizens to do them
• Sustainable & energy efficiency grants, both individual and town
Housing
• Building codes (?) in Marlow?
• Creative solutions for affordable housing
• No large housing developments that are not tasteful & in keeping with the look of Marlow
• See Zoning - Land Use
Limits
• Discuss/explore the need for growth vs. quality of rural location
• Draw in more families (younger people)
• Limit growth +/-
• Limit/qualify type of high density housing
• More R2 (2 or more acre zoning) near town center
• Town center increase population – leave outlaying areas for rural/ag. use
• Waterfront development – limited by (state) zoning
• Zoning needs to protect rural quality
Senior Housing
• I could see in the future a large log home (like one in Marlborough on the main drag – the demo - Real Log Home – Senior housing with huge common room & greenhouse, each have small apt.
• Percentage of workforce housing (ie. working people making $50,000 or less) - % of growth – state requirement
• Plan for aging population
• Some kind of senior housing in Marlow.