The Town of Amherst is creating new design standards to guide future development and maintain a welcoming, attractive, and vibrant downtown, and we need your input! This survey will help us understand your preferences on key design elements like building massing, articulation, setbacks, and window treatments. A separate survey focusing on streetscape details will be available later this fall.
Please review the images in the following questions, which show recently built examples from other communities. Consider if these buildings and/or streetscapes would be appropriate within the downtown Amherst study area (outlined in orange on the map). Some examples may be suitable for certain parts of downtown but not others. If so, rate each image based on where it would be most appropriate.