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Planning board debates tiered site plan review bylaw, splits over municipal projects and design standards
Summary
Board discussed a drafted tiered site plan review bylaw — tiers for small, medium and large projects — and debated whether municipal projects should be subject to the same review and how prescriptive design and regulation language should be.
The Middleborough Planning Board spent the bulk of its Jan. 7 meeting discussing a draft site plan review zoning amendment that would add a three-tier review structure for projects in the town's General Use (GU) zones.
Tracy Craig, planning board clerk and a member of the subcommittee drafting the text, outlined a tiered approach borrowed from other towns: a lower tier for smaller projects reviewed by staff, a mid tier reviewed by the planning board at a regular meeting, and a top tier requiring a noticed public hearing. "I basically looked at the notes that I had written down from our meetings and,…
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