Brookline’s Planning Department is moving forward with a plan that would ultimately rezone a large stretch of Harvard Street — one of the town’s main commercial strips, which runs through Brookline Village and Coolidge Corner and crosses the Green Line’s C branch — to allow for the construction of multifamily housing.A view of housing on Harvard Street in Brookline. DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFFThe proposal would change the zoning on Harvard Street to a so-called form-based code, which would allow multifamily housing by right — or without special permit — as long as developments meet certain parameters for design and mass.
