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Speaker 1: As it stands, businesses in these village center areas looking

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Speaker 1: to open or expand have to meet a standard for

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Speaker 1: parking based on stuff like their size. Long Range planner

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Speaker 1: Zachary Lamel walked me through the new plan.

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Speaker 2: If a business were to expand, or if a new

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Speaker 2: business were to take over an existing space, those requirements

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Speaker 2: to provide on site parking would not be there.

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Speaker 1: The hope is to make it easier for businesses in

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Speaker 1: these areas that often don't have any room to create

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Speaker 1: more spaces and already a public parking available. Deputy Director

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Speaker 1: of Planning Jennifer Kira says local businesses support the plan

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Speaker 1: because it can help remove some hurdles.

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Speaker 3: Small businesses looking to open already have to figure out

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Speaker 3: all of the licenses and permits and things that they

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Speaker 3: need that then this just slows down the process and

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Speaker 3: adds one more step, making it harder for them to

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Speaker 3: locate here.

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Speaker 1: From Newton, Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's news radio