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Planning board consolidates several zoning edits for public hearing, flags drive-throughs and data centers as potentially controversial

Town of Northborough Planning Board · January 21, 2026
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Summary

Staff will prepare a clean packet for public hearing containing a consolidated set of zoning bylaw edits — including changes to ATM/drive-through language, donation-bin rules, assembly-hall definitions, open-space wording and parking/impervious-surface clarifications — while the board debated whether some items should be separate warrant articles.

Town planning staff told the board on Jan. 20 that she would compile this year's zoning edits into a single, clean document (with tracked changes removed) for the public-hearing packet. The package combines a number of relatively minor fixes (donation-collection bin location/registration rules, fence/hedge clarifications, updated definitions, and a…

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