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Andover council approves consultant to refresh Unified Development Manual

Andover City Council · October 29, 2025
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Summary

The Andover City Council unanimously approved a professional services agreement with Olsen/Olson to update the city's Unified Development Manual, directing a consultant-led, roughly six-month review with stakeholder sessions and recommendations for ordinance and staff-level edits.

The Andover City Council voted unanimously to hire a consultant to "refresh" the city's Unified Development Manual (UDM), a document adopted by ordinance in 2018 that contains the city's subdivision and site-plan regulations.

Julie Boyd, interim planning and zoning administrator, told the council the UDM was intended to translate technical code into a more digestible format and that the city has noticed internal inconsistencies and a high number of variance requests since the document was…

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