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Yarmouth planners raise legal and enforcement questions about state's "seasonal communities" designation
Summary
Planner Cathy Williams told the board the state presentation left open key questions about undersized lots, whether new units must be capped at 200'100'50% AMI, permanence of year-round restrictions, and whether the term "regulate" could be read to prohibit movable tiny homes; members asked for written legal clarifications.
Yarmouth planners spent a large portion of the March 18 meeting discussing the state'backed "seasonal communities" designation and what it would mean for local zoning, housing affordability requirements and enforcement.
Cathy Williams, the town planner, summarized a March 13 presentation by Matthew Walsh of the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities and said the presentation left multiple unanswered legal and practical questions. Williams said the draft materials did not include a date in the definition of "undersized lots," which raised concern among town planners and several municipal attorneys about whether the designation could apply to future lots. "The actual definition doesn't give a date," Williams said, adding that planners advised specifying a 'prior to'…
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