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Charlton approves zoning map changes and bylaw amendments including floodplain language and building-numbering policy

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Summary

Voters approved several zoning and bylaw amendments: a building-numbering bylaw change (Chapter 115), multiple zoning map changes removing parcels from the wireless telecommunications overlay and changing a parcel from BEP to agricultural/rural residential, and a zoning bylaw insertion clarifying subdivision review in the Floodplain Overlay.

Charlton ' Town meeting voters approved a series of zoning and bylaw amendments addressing building numbering, zoning districts and subdivision review language.

Article 7 amended Chapter 115 (buildings and the numbering thereof) by adding a section that authorizes the Board of Selectmen to approve and amend a policy for assigning numbers to buildings. The motion was presented as "accepted as written," carried by ballot and recorded in the transcript as 43 in the affirmative and 10 opposed.

Article 8 was a zoning map change sponsored by the property owner Waldo Eastman to rezone assessor's parcel Map 24 A-4.4 (about 4.8 acres on North Side Road) from Business Enterprise Park (BEP) to Agricultural/Rural Residential (AR-60). Eastman told…

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