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Board discusses updating Industrial Park zoning; members urge careful drafting and time to refine
Summary
The board reviewed a draft of Industrial Park District zoning updates intended to expand allowed uses. Members and EDC staff recommended simplifying categories, preserving special-permit review for heavier manufacturing uses, and taking more time to finalize language before placing it on a warrant.
Planning staff and members of the building-commissioner/zoning working group presented a draft zoning amendment that would broaden permitted uses in Industrial Park districts to reflect post-pandemic business types and allow additional commercial and light-industrial activities.
Why it matters: The existing Industrial Park use table is out of date, and building owners and economic-development staff say the town is losing potential tenants because allowable uses are too narrowly defined. The draft aims to…
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