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Senate committee debates recusal rules for officials serving on both planning and zoning boards; sponsor asked to draft amendment
Summary
House Bill 92, seeking to require recusal when a planning-board member votes on a matter later appealed to a zoning board (and vice versa), drew detailed legal and practical questions. Senators asked the sponsor to draft a narrower amendment to address small-town quorum concerns.
Representative Joe Alexander introduced House Bill 92 to the Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs Committee, saying the measure responds to a constituent concern about the same faces deciding a planning-board matter and then hearing the appeal on the zoning board.
“My name is Representative Joe Alexander. I represent the town of Goffstown,” Alexander told the committee, and he said the bill’s intent is to prevent the same…
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