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Planning board debates scope and industrial uses in Tenney Mountain overlay
Summary
Board reviewed revisions to the Tenney Mountain Overlay District and discussed village-core standards, PUD thresholds and whether to cap sizes or permit large manufacturing and warehousing; no vote taken and staff will research building-size precedents and potential limits.
Planning staff presented a revised Tenney Mountain Overlay District (TMOD) draft and the Planning Board spent substantial time discussing how the overlay would handle village-core form, PUD thresholds and allowable business uses, including manufacturing, laboratory R&D and warehousing.
The board reviewed several changes: clarifying the underlying zoning that could apply to overlay parcels, correcting older references ("PUD plan" in place of "master plan") and adding a clear requirement that a village core in a PUD must be compact and consistent with the purpose of the overlay. The TMOD draft also makes explicit that a PUD village core shall be allowed only in PUDs containing at least 250 acres.
Why it matters: the overlay creates an opportunity to accommodate higher-intensity mixed-use development in designated areas near Tenney Mountain while also obligating the planning board to evaluate…
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