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Planning commission discusses transmission and possible telecom plan amendment
Summary
Members debated adding a telecommunications/utility-transmission section to the town plan and whether to insert it via a formal amendment alongside the enhanced energy plan (EEP); staff recommended an amendment route.
Commissioners raised the question of whether to include explicit telecommunications and transmission-line policy language in the municipal plan or to add it later by amendment. One member said the town could add a new section on telecommunications and potentially do a plan amendment to insert transmission-line protections and scenic-resource language.
Staff advised that a plan amendment would be the quickest way to get a new telecommunications section in place and suggested pairing it with planned EEP amendments. Members discussed keeping strong discouragement language for major transmission lines but removing conditional language that would tie local decisions to vague regional energy needs.
The commission asked staff to draft amendment language that protects scenic resources while allowing the town to make its local needs clear in the plan.
