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Board votes to remove Route 202 vegetated-buffer clause from ordinance
Summary
The planning board voted to remove Article 4.13d (Route 202 vegetated buffer) from the local ordinance, citing that the clause does not apply anywhere in town and the Town Council is unlikely to approve it; members said traffic and curb-cut concerns are already addressed through conditional-use and DOT rules.
The board moved to remove Article 4.13d — the clause that would require a vegetated buffer on Route 202 — from the town ordinance. A committee member (S5) said the provision "doesn't apply anywhere in town" and noted the Town Council expressed no desire to adopt it as written. The board debated enforcement, equity across properties and whether state DOT rules and existing conditional-use traffic-study requirements already address the intended safety and access-management goals.
A motion was made and seconded to remove the provision as a correction to the ordinance at the next update; the board discussed that any future access-management or buffer policies could be recommended to the council but that removal as written would reflect current practice. The motion passed with no opposition.
