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Zoning commission prioritizes four rule changes and starts RFP for full regulation rewrite (FY26 funding)
Summary
Simsbury Zoning Commission on April 21 prioritized four zoning changes from the town’s POCD and directed staff to prepare a consultant RFP for a full zoning-regulation rewrite funded in FY26.
Simsbury Zoning Commission members on April 21 reviewed a zoning-regulation prioritization worksheet and directed staff to begin work on four items drawn from the town’s Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD): ridgeline regulations, a requirement that significant projects submit a fiscal impact study (FIS), revisions to parking requirements to include electric-vehicle infrastructure, and erosion and sediment-control standards for larger lots.
Planning staff said many items on the worksheet could be handled in-house and estimated a range of about 60 to 180 days for the shorter items, with a full rewrite of the zoning regulations requiring a separate, consultant-supported process of roughly 12 to 18 months. "We have money in, in the in the…
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