Housing Production Plan
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Overview
A Housing Production Plan (HPP) is a community's proactive strategy for planning and developing affordable housing by: creating a strategy to enable it to meet its affordable housing needs in a manner consistent with the Chapter 40B statute and regulations; and producing housing units in accordance with the HPP.
The HPP regulation became effective on February 22, 2008 when the DHCD promulgated 760 CMR 56.00, Comprehensive Permit; Low or Moderate Income Housing. The HPP regulation is contained in 760 CMR 56.03(4). HPPs replace Planned Production under 760 CMR 31.07(1)(i).
If a community has a DHCD approved HPP and is granted certification of compliance with the plan by DHCD, a decision by the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) relative to a comprehensive permit application will be deemed "consistent with local needs" under MGL Chapter 40B. "Consistent with local needs" means the ZBA's decision will be upheld by the Housing Appeals Committee.
0.5% and 1.0% Thresholds (production goals)
0.75 % and 1. 5 % Thresholds (production goals) 
Checklist for adopting EO 418 Plans
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Approved Housing Plans: Approval & Expiration Dates
DHCD Approved Plans:
Abington Plan
Acton Plan
Amesbury Plan - contact Town Hall at 978-338-8118
Ashburnham Plan
Barnstable Plan
Barnstable Town Plan
Bedford Plan
Berlin Plan
Billerica Plan
Bolton Plan
Bourne Plan- contact Town Hall at 508-759-0615
Boxborough Plan
Boxford Plan
Boylston Plan
Bridgewater Plan
Carlisle Plan
Chelmsford Plan - contact Town Hall at 978-250-5231
Concord Plan
Dartmouth Plan
Dighton
Dracut Plan
Dunstable Plan
Duxbury
Easton Plan
Falmouth Plan
Falmouth Plan; revised January 09
Franklin Plan
Grafton Plan
Groton Plan
Groveland Plan
Hamilton
Harvard Plan
Holliston Plan
Hopkinton Plan
Ipswich Plan
Kingston Plan
Lakeville Plan
Lenox Plan
Lincoln Plan
Littleton Plan
Lynnfield Plan
Lunenburg Plan
Mansfield Plan
Marshfield Plan
Marion Plan
Marshfield
Mashpee Plan
Merrimack Plan
Middleborough Plan - contact Town Hall at 508-946-2425
Natick Plan - contact Town Hall at 508-647-6450
Nantucket Plan
North Andover
Northboro Plan
Norwell Plan
Peabody Plan
Pepperell Plan
Petersham Plan
Plymouth Plan
Quincy Plan
Reading
Rowley
Salisbury Plan - contact Town Hall at 978-463-2266
Sandwich Plan
Sharon Plan
Shrewsbury Plan
Scituate
Stoughton Plan
Southborough Plan
Sterling Plan
Stow Plan
Sunderland Plan
Templeton Plan
Tewksbury Plan
Townsend Plan
Truro Plan
Tyngsboro Plan
Wakefield Plan
Walpole Plan
Wareham Plan
Wayland Plan
Wenham
Westford Plan
Westminster Plan
Westport Plan
West Newbury Plan
Wilmington Plan
Wrentham Plan