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Committee debates growth-management language, lot-size minimums and vision wording
Summary
Committee members and public commenters debated whether the draft should retain specific growth-control language and numeric lot-size minimums (20,000 vs. 40,000 sq ft). Public commenter Ed urged preserving statutory growth-management wording; members raised trade-offs including property taxes, affordability and zoning implementation.
Committee members discussed how the plan should treat growth management, lot-size minima and the vision statement.
Public commenter Ed (handouts) urged that statutory language from the state growth-management provisions be preserved verbatim in the comprehensive-plan draft, saying municipalities are authorized to enact growth-control ordinances and that the rate-of-growth ordinance differs from a moratorium statute. Ed told the committee the handout included "the section 43 12 statement of…
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