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Residents urge clearer notice and a consolidated redline for draft bylaws
Summary
Several residents told the commission they only learned about the hearing through word of mouth and asked the commission to post a single cumulative redline and clearer links so community members can track changes across months of edits.
Multiple residents told the commission they had difficulty finding a single, consolidated record of changes to the bylaws and urged better outreach about the hearing. One attendee said she "only knew about this because 1 person that knows about these meetings told me," and several others asked the commission to publish a cumulative redline showing how the draft differs from the current regulations.
Commission staff and members pointed to redline PDFs and meeting minutes already hosted on the town website and said they have been keeping ongoing documentation. Attendees asked staff to consider posting a single snapshot redline for the current draft to make it easier for the public to compare the proposed language to the existing text rather than hunting through 18 months of meeting minutes.
