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Swansea planners debate revisions to site-plan rules, add one-year expiration language
Summary
The Planning Board spent substantial time revising site-plan review regulations, proposing a one-year expiration for approvals 'unless active and substantial development has occurred,' discussing examples of qualifying work and agreeing staff will redraft language for public hearing.
At its March 12 meeting the Swansea Planning Board conducted a line-by-line review of proposed edits to the town's site-plan review regulations, focusing on the placement of approval and conditional-approval language and on a proposed one-year expiration for approvals unless "active and substantial development" occurs.
Planning staff and board members debated where the approval/conditional-approval language should live in the document and how to phrase expiration so it does not imply automatic termination of an approval. Members…
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