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Planning board considers incorporating driveway rules into zoning and notes state expedited-permitting requirements

5942590 · October 14, 2025
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Summary

Board discussed making the town's driveway permit regulations part of the zoning ordinance (which would require future change by warrant) and noted state provisions for expedited permitting for large residential drives/subdivisions; SRPC and counsel will draft language.

The Brookfield Town Planning Board examined the town's driveway permitting process and considered moving the existing driveway permitting regulations into the zoning ordinance. Members were clear that if those rules are incorporated into the zoning ordinance they would require warrant-level votes to change in the future; keeping them as administrative regulations…

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