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Planning staff seeks consultant-led ordinance audit and fee study

Board of Selectmen, Town of Swanzey · October 30, 2025
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Summary

Town planner Adam Paquette told the board the 2026 planning budget includes a pooled consulting line to cover a comprehensive ordinance audit and modernization, and signaled a separate permitting-fee and impact-fee review for 2026'27.

Town planner Adam Paquette requested funding in the 2026 draft to hire outside consulting for a comprehensive ordinance audit and to merge several small consulting lines into a single planning/economic development consulting budget. Paquette told the board the consolidated consulting allocation of $15,250 includes previously separate economic development consulting funds and will be used to bring in third-party…

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