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Planning board begins review of zoning for vocational, trade and business schools

3033300 · April 10, 2025
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Summary

Board members asked staff to draft clearer definitions and zoning options for vocational and trade schools, considering intensity and parking impacts and recommending conditional use permitting for lower-intensity programs in neighborhood commercial zones.

The Planning and Zone Board held a policy discussion about where vocational, trade and business schools should be permitted in town and asked planning staff to draft clearer definitions and zoning options that distinguish low- from high-intensity uses.

Planner Smith explained the town’s zoning table currently lists “vocational, technical, trade or business schools” as a single category and that some tenants—cosmetology, esthetician or medical-spa training programs—do not fit neatly…

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