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Planning board reviews FEIS process for large development; conservation-easement and walkway dispute likely requires court action
Summary
The planning board reviewed the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for a major subdivision and was advised it cannot adopt a binding findings statement at the same meeting; the board also heard a request to relocate a recorded walkway and to reduce a conservation easement that overlaps a private lot.
The planning board reviewed the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) package for a major subdivision and discussed how the FEIS, errata, public-comment responses and the findings statement will move the project forward. Staff described FEIS organization and said the board may not adopt the binding findings statement at the same meeting because regulations require a period for review.
At the hearing, counsel and consultants explained FEIS contents: responses to substantive public comments in table form, appendices with the public comments, supplemental visual-impact assessment materials, updates to the fiscal-impact analysis and assessor data, and errata entries identifying changes to the draft EIS. One consultant said the FEIS includes a table identifying who provided each comment and where the DEIS addresses it.
Why it matters: adoption of a findings statement would conclude the environmental-review process and…
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