Board recommends technical amendments to raise-and-replace nonconforming rules

The planning board voted to recommend technical amendments to the town’s raise-and-replace and preexisting nonconforming-structure provisions to make the zoning bylaw conform to recent case law and current practice. The board described these changes as largely technical — clarifying when undersized lots or preexisting nonconforming structures require written findings under M.G.L. c.40A §6 versus a special permit — and said more substantive changes could come at a later fall town meeting.