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Rangely committee forwards zoning‑map updates and targeted setback changes to selectboard
Summary
The Comprehensive Plan Implementation Committee voted to forward three recommendations to the Board of Selectmen — prioritizing updates to the future land‑use map, identifying zoning/map conflicts, and expedited review of Chapter 38 setback/coverage tables — and asked that an edited memo be circulated before submission.
Members of the Comprehensive Plan Implementation Committee voted to forward three recommendations to the Board of Selectmen after reviewing a draft memo and agreeing on edits.
The committee agreed the first recommendation is to prioritize updates to the town's future land‑use map so that state resource designations and local growth areas are reconciled. Carl, who drafted the memo, said the committee's role is to "identify things we want" and to "draft a document to send to the board of selectmen" for further work by the planning and ordinance committees.
Committee members asked the memo to explicitly note known map conflicts (for example, where prime agricultural or forestry areas overlap with growth areas) so the planning board and related committees are alerted during map updates. Mark urged that these conflicts be "identified" rather than resolved by the implementation committee, saying the planning board should perform the detailed review.
On a related item, members discussed moving quickly on a narrower change to Chapter 38: the setback and coverage table (referred to as Table 3). Supporters described the table revision as a "quick hit" that could improve buildability (reducing the need for variances) without waiting for a full rewrite of Chapter 38. One member explained that small changes to setbacks could make previously unusable parcels buildable and reduce frequent variance requests.
A motion to forward the first two recommendations (priority map updates and identification of map conflicts), with an edit to call out zoning map conflicts, was made and discussed. The committee later voted to forward all three recommendations (the zoning map update, the conflicts identification, and a targeted review of the Chapter 38 setback/coverage table) to the selectboard with the agreed edits. Members requested the edited memo be circulated to the committee before it is submitted so they can confirm the final language.
The committee also noted schedule constraints: to appear on the selectboard's mid‑March agenda the memo needed to be finalized and submitted by the 11th; otherwise it would wait until the April meeting. Committee members agreed to circulate the edited draft the next day to meet the deadline.
The committee confirmed it will reconvene to continue old business, with the next meeting set for March 23 at 5:00 p.m.
