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Planning staff seek town‑meeting action to accept updated FEMA flood maps and revise floodplain zoning
Summary
Town planning staff asked the Select Board on April 15 to recommend two zoning articles for the special town meeting that would adopt updated FEMA flood maps and revise the town’s floodplain zoning to meet FEMA requirements.
Lee Newman, director of Planning and Community Development, and Tom Ryder from the town engineering department briefed the Select Board on two zoning articles the Planning Board will present at the upcoming special town meeting. Both articles are intended to keep the town compliant with Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) requirements after new digital flood‑plain mapping.
Newman said the articles do two things: (1) formally recognize and adopt the updated FEMA maps and (2) revise the town’s floodplain zoning bylaw to incorporate FEMA’s updated requirements. The…
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