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Board adopts policy limiting reliance on ‘new recollections’ and requiring written staff communications for evidence
Summary
The Wilson County BZA voted to adopt a procedural policy that the board will not consider new recollections as new evidence and that any applicant relying on county staff communications must provide written documentation (email or letter) to be considered.
At the close of its September meeting the Wilson County Board of Zoning Appeals adopted a procedural policy change limiting the evidentiary weight of later “recollections” and requiring written documentation for reliance on county staff communications.
Board members said the change responds to a recent case in which an applicant produced later recollections of a conversation with zoning staff that the applicant said…
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