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Planning Board questions town's proposed hospitality overlay, cites spot-zoning and adaptive-reuse concerns
Summary
Planning Board members probed a town-board draft hospitality overlay that narrows where larger hospitality uses can locate, warning it may amount to spot zoning, exclude adaptive reuse, and conflict with the comprehensive plan; the town board representative said the overlay is intended to limit future nonconforming uses.
Planning Board members criticized a town-board draft hospitality overlay district at their meeting, saying the proposal as written appears narrowly targeted to a handful of properties already under review and could effectively block future hospitality uses or adaptive reuses without clear policy justification.
"When you read this, the overwhelming impression is we don't want these uses," the Chair said, noting the draft’s…
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