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Residents urge Alton selectmen to address town-hall hours, building-department enforcement and zoning delays
Summary
Multiple residents used public input to press the board on three related issues: restoring five-day town-hall hours, inconsistent building-department enforcement and lengthy delays in planning and zoning approvals that they say hinder local development.
Several residents raised related concerns about town services during the public-input period at the Sept. 9 Alton Town Board of Selectmen meeting, asking the board to address reduced town-hall hours, what they called heavy-handed or inconsistent enforcement by the building department, and lengthy delays in planning and zoning reviews.
Roger Sample, who said he submitted an application related to a town roll-off truck, discussed complaints about limited town-hall hours and said the building department often appears unmanned: "It used to be 40 hours,…
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