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Planning commission signals major rewrite of 1980 subdivision rules after legal review
Summary
A legal review found Rutland Town's subdivision ordinance (1980) out of step with state law and potentially overreaching into zoning; the commission plans multiple subcommittee meetings to align references, remove impermissible provisions and produce a defensible draft for Select Board review.
Speaker 4, a Planning Commission member who summarized legal counsel Kevin Brown's review, said the town's subdivision ordinance dates from 1980 and does not fully comply with changes made at the state level in 2003. "Our existing subdivision ordinance was enacted in 1980," Speaker 4 said, and Kevin's summary identified numerous references that are outdated or that risk exceeding the commission's statutory…
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