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Planning board advances master plan edits, maps and implementation tasks; approves consultant spending cap

5737897 · September 9, 2025
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Summary

Planning board members debated map accuracy, workforce housing overlays, a missing capital improvement program and other master-plan content. The board approved up to $7,500 to proceed with consultant work and agreed to send the draft and appendices to town counsel and SRPC for review.

The Planning Board spent the bulk of its meeting reviewing the draft master plan and ordering further work on maps, appendices and implementation steps.

Marshall Goldberg, Planning Board member, summarized the draft and the board’s outstanding questions about map intent. Members debated whether the land‑use map should show current conditions or a future vision. Goldberg noted the map’s title and content dated from 2006 and recommended removing dated proposals that are not intended policies.

Board members asked SRPC to provide clearer road maps and a separate workforce‑housing overlay. Goldberg said the workforce overlay “is going to be a 500 foot buffer around those” and recommended placing the…

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