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Board of Health imposes temporary moratorium on variances tied to IA septic systems, schedules scientific review
Summary
The Board of Health enacted a 90-day moratorium on considering variances for new construction that would use innovative/alternative (IA) septic systems to gain additional bedroom credits, citing the need for updated scientific review and community-level impact analysis.
The Board of Health imposed a temporary moratorium — adopted at a prior meeting and discussed on June 25 — on considering variance applications for new construction that propose using an innovative/alternative (IA) septic system to support additional bedrooms. The moratorium is 90 days and is intended to give the board time to review scientific evidence and hear expert testimony before approving future bedroom-credit variances.
Board chair Malcolm McNabb read the moratorium motion into the record: "To adopt a temporary moratorium of 90 days on considering variance applications for new construction if they propose using an IA system to accommodate…
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