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Planning committee restores flexible path for replacing nonconforming structures, sends revised language to legal review
Summary
Committee members agreed to restore elements of a prior ordinance to allow replacement or limited expansion of nonconforming structures by special exception (rather than forcing variances) and voted to send the revised E2 replacement language to legal review.
The Alton Town planning committee debated and approved sending revised language on replacement of nonconforming structures (E2) to legal review.
Norma presented a prior version of the nonconforming-structure rules and argued the 2024 rewrite had left owners without a workable path to rebuild or improve older structures. Committee members discussed the historical approach that had allowed reconstruction and limited expansions through the special-exception process.
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