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Council adopts state-driven zoning and home-occupation updates, pares back daytime noise limit for retail
Summary
Council adopted updates to local code to implement 2025 state law changes (including a new 'comprehensive zoning amendment' definition and revisions to home-occupation rules) and approved an LDR amendment on parking and landscaping; members removed an office/retail daytime noise limit from the proposal before passing the updates.
Staff summarized three clusters of state-driven changes: procedural updates to planning-and-zoning review and notice requirements, a new definition for "comprehensive zoning amendment," and alterations to permitted uses and home-occupation language set by recent state laws. The recommended local changes would make 'no-impact' home-based businesses permitted in residential zones, require updated notice timing on the town website and in publications, and adjust protest thresholds in certain density-increase cases consistent with…
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