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Andover council approves contract with Olson to refresh Unified Development Manual
Summary
The Andover City Council voted 6-0 to hire Olson Incorporated to update the city's Unified Development Manual, seeking to correct internal inconsistencies and improve user-friendly materials such as checklists and site-plan review procedures.
The Andover City Council on Oct. 28 approved a professional-services agreement with Olson Incorporated to update the city's Unified Development Manual (UDM), voting 6-0.
Julie Boyd, interim planning and zoning administrator, told the council the UDM is part of the city code and contains subdivision and site-plan regulations. "The idea with that was to separate it out of the pretty technical, you know, building code, and make it a more digestible format so that developers and and people living in the city can interpret the regulations in a way that's a little more plain English," Boyd said. She said the current UDM was put into practice in 2018 and has not been revised since adoption.
The contract follows an earlier RFP that drew no suitable…
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