Hubbardston planning board recommends trimmed site-plan rules and revised floodplain bylaw to town meeting

The Town of Hubbardston Planning Board on a voice vote recommended zoning bylaw changes that reorganize site-plan approval rules and revise the Flood Plain District to conform with state and federal guidance.

Planner Alec (Alec, town planner) told the board the packet contains a draft “site plan approval rules and regulations” intended to remove administrative detail from Article 9 and place it in a rules-and-regulations document. "My proposal is that you remove the more administrative components of article 9 ... and create the administrative document," Alec said, arguing the change will make decisions easier to defend on appeal and reduce time spent at town meeting.

The change would shift items such as site-plan forms and content from the bylaw into an administrative rules…