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Nantucket’s Planning Department outlines services, staffing and role in town master plan
Summary
Leslie Snell, the town’s planning director, summarized the Planning and Land Use Services (PLUS) department’s structure, core services (permitting, code enforcement, applications processing), interboard support, and its role in updating the town master plan under Massachusetts law.
Leslie Snell, director of planning for the Town of Nantucket and executive director of the Nantucket Planning and Economic Development Commission, gave an overview of the town’s Planning and Land Use Services department in a Government 101 presentation.
Snell said the PLUS department ‘‘has over 20 full time employees and was established in 2012’’ and that staff work from an office at 2 Beargrounds Road. She introduced Deputy Director Megan Trudell and said the two together oversee three divisions: Land use and regulatory; Regional focus; and Safety and code compliance.
The Land use and regulatory division provides staff support for…
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