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Planning board advances draft flood-ordinance changes; votes to seek joint workshop with select board
Summary
Staff presented draft amendments to the town's flood ordinance proposing a 10-year lookback for substantial-improvement calculations and excluding depreciation from market-value determinations; board members debated whether to include maintenance in the calculation and agreed to request a joint workshop with the select board to resolve differences.
Town planning staff reviewed draft amendments to Chapter 115 defining "market value" and the substantial-improvement lookback period. The proposed change would calculate cumulative improvements over a 10-year period rather than the life of a structure and would, in staff's draft, exclude depreciation when determining market value.
Board members debated whether to use a 5- or 10-year lookback and whether maintenance items (roofing, siding,…
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