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Planning commission to form ad hoc group to implement attorney—s extensive subdivision-ordinance edits
Summary
Members said attorney Kevin Brown made extensive deletions and restructuring to the subdivision ordinance, particularly in sections 2 and 4, and agreed a small subgroup should implement the edits before the commission reviews and returns the revised draft to counsel.
The commission discussed an extensive set of edits from town attorney Kevin Brown to the town—s subdivision ordinance and agreed a focused subgroup should work through the changes outside a regular meeting.
Members said Brown—s comments removed or rewrote large portions of the document, particularly within Section 2 (general requirements) and Section 4 (design standards and procedural changes), and that implementing the edits will require renumbering and reformatting. Bill said the attorney—s work eliminated references that no longer apply because statutory citations had changed. Commissioners suggested forming an ad hoc team of staff and several commissioners (Dana, Norm and Bill were named as likely participants) to reconcile the language, produce a clean draft with page numbers and then return it to the attorney for confirmation.
Bill noted the review has already consumed a significant portion of the planning commission—s legal budget for the year and described the attorney—s invoicing as project-based. The group agreed this task will likely take multiple hours and should be scheduled as a working session rather than handled during a regular meeting.
Next steps: form an ad hoc review group, add page numbers to the attorney-edited PDF, prepare a clean revised draft and then submit it to the town attorney for confirmation before presenting changes to the full commission.
