Planning board says new comprehensive plan retains key sections despite format changes

Article 12 prompted questions about whether sections from the 1998 local comprehensive plan would disappear under the update. Mary Wagon, chair of the Planning Board, said the new plan keeps the history chapter and parts of the open-space and recreation plan because those sections contain detailed mapping and parcel information that require preservation in the local plan. "We haven't taken anything out," Wagon said, adding that the plan is long and many items were elevated as priorities.