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Planning board seeks funding to digitize zoning bylaws with General Code software

5742657 · September 9, 2025
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Summary

The Millis Planning Board requested that the select board encourage submission of a $16,500 General Code software purchase to the capital planning process; the software would digitize zoning bylaws, general bylaws and the Home Rule Charter to improve transparency and reduce legal risk.

Members of the Millis Planning Board told the select board they want to buy General Code software to digitize the town’s zoning bylaws, general bylaws and Home Rule Charter.

Jim McKay and Nicole Riley, representing the planning board, said the package would cost $16,500 for initial digitization of the three documents, with an annual maintenance fee of $1,195. Riley said the board has been reviewing the zoning bylaw — a document of more than 220 pages — and that the current Word-format file dates to an…

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