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Selectmen keep town attorney's opinion private as 24 Shore Drive plan faces ZBA route

Greenland Board of Selectmen · June 5, 2025
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Summary

The Greenland Board of Selectmen reviewed a town attorney's opinion concluding the ordinance's buffer exceptions apply only to vacant lots or attached additions; the board voted not to release the letter and advised the applicant to seek ZBA relief or resubmit a revised plan.

At a public-hearing item on 24 Shore Drive, staff summarized a town attorney's written opinion that the ordinance's exceptions apply only to a vacant lot of record or to an attached addition to an existing structure, and therefore the presented plan as currently configured does not qualify for the ordinance exception.

Staff (S4) described the attorney's letter and said it was intended as advice to the board; several members said the letter merely reaffirmed an interpretation they had…

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