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Select Board prioritizes short-term rentals, street standards and monumentation for ordinance work

Wells Select Board · January 7, 2026
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Summary

The Select Board agreed to prioritize short-term rental regulation and flood ordinance work for an early June schedule, discussed private-road street standards and a proposal to require permanent monumentation within 25 feet of property lines; members flagged state law LD 427 compliance as mandatory.

Select Board members directed staff to prioritize a set of ordinance changes to meet an upcoming ballot timeline, with short-term rental rules and a flood-ordinance revision given top attention.

A planner told the board she had prepared a timeline working back from the clerk's deadline and that zoning implications mean short-term rental rules may need both licensing and zoning changes. "...you want to present town meeting, with respect to the…

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