A development team behind an innovative 44-unit village of not-quite 400-square-foot workforce housing cottages in Dover has proposed another similar project. 

John Randolph has filed a proposal with Dover officials to build a 32-unit cottage cluster, this time with slightly larger units, on a 25-acre parcel on the town’s outskirts that currently holds a daycare center.  

According to a site plan review and zoning relief application prepared by Horizons Engineering for Randolph, the units would cluster around common green space and share a playground with the daycare center, which would remain. The resulting development would be highly compact by the standards of a New Hampshire town, only taking up 4 acres of the 25-acre parcel. 

Each cottage would be around 560 square feet, the application states and, unlike Randolph’s earlier studio-style cottages, would include separate bedrooms. A community center and a maintenance building are also noted in plans filed with the application. 

The units will be deed restricted as affordable housing, Randolph’s application states. As with Randolph’s earlier cottage development, his application states that building smaller units clustered together into miniature neighborhoods is necessary for the units to be offered at affordable prices.