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Lakeville planning board advances edits to site-plan review bylaw and proposes formal pre-submission/oversight process
Summary
Planning Board members asked staff to draft explicit triggers in the site-plan review bylaw for nonbuilding ground disturbance, strengthen architectural standards, add Open Space Committee landscape review, and create a formal pre-submission technical-review and post-permit oversight process.
The Lakeville Planning Board reviewed a package of suggested edits to the town's site-plan review bylaw and began discussing a formal permit and construction oversight process intended to reduce missed review items and improve transparency.
Discussion points included closing a procedural loophole whereby site-plan review can be avoided if a project disturbs more than 1,500 square feet of ground cover but does not require a building permit; board members asked the town planner to propose language so the bylaw expressly triggers site-plan review for nonbuilding disturbances that meet the applicable thresholds. Members also asked for clearer, enforceable architectural standards rather than advisory language that "strongly…
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