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Stamford planning board tightens historic‑preservation language, weighs giving HPAC enforcement authority
Summary
The Stamford Planning Board on Oct. 14 revised comprehensive‑plan language to emphasize protecting historic resources, agreed to remove two narrowly scoped draft actions, and added an action to consider elevating the Historic Preservation Advisory Commission to a decision‑making role alongside a citywide resources survey.
Stamford — The Stamford Planning Board refined its comprehensive plan on Oct. 14 to strengthen historic‑preservation language and debated a possible expansion of the Historic Preservation Advisory Commission’s role.
Staff recommended rewording the plan’s "encourage thoughtful development" goal to emphasize design quality, community identity and respect for historic resources. "We are reinforcing protection in the strategy...and creating some new actions to give ourselves more strength in creating regulations and enforcing regulations, as well as identifying historic resources that we have remaining," staff member Lindsey said during the session.
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