Newton Zoning Exercise 2022 Report

This zoning feedback exercise was collaboratively designed by the City of Newton, Massachusetts Planning Department and the Stanford Crowdsourced Democracy Team. The purpose was to gain constructive feed- back on some of the proposed changes to the zoning rules in the Newton village centers as input for the City Council deliberations. Newton residents, workers, business owners and students were invited to participate. The exercise was designed with the use of Qualtrics, and was first published on September 1 and closed on October 17.

This report is a preliminary analysis of mostly the quantitative results. The survey was completed and submitted by 1634 respondents. 1373 people started the exercise, 1264 completed the introduction section, 1078 completed the Scaled Zoning section, 919 completed the Mapping section, 966 the Parking section and 975 people completed the demographics section.