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Board reviews NFP guide draft and data on variances, seeks ordinance updates and resource list
Summary
Staff presented data on withdrawn applications and variance requests for NFP properties and circulated a draft NFP guide; the board discussed slope and woodland-related dimensional variances, cross-cutting regulatory conflicts, and possible resource lists or RFQ approaches to help applicants.
Staff member Nolan opened an unfinished-business work session Tuesday on data and the draft NFP guide, telling the board “this is probably gonna be unfinished business for a while this this year because we kicked it off at the January meeting.”
Nolan reviewed historical application outcomes and said withdrawals were relatively rare: one withdrawn application in 2020 (attributed to the COVID pandemic), two in 2021 (one because the project stopped moving forward and another because the applicant was not ready for site plan). He also gave the board a breakdown of variance involvement: about 39% of projects that came through site plan review included a dimensional variance and about 24% included a use variance.
Board members and staff discussed causes behind those variances.…
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