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Zoning board maps topics for broader ordinance rewrite; to draft recommendations for planning board
Summary
Board members compiled a list of zoning topics for planning-board review, including multifamily definitions, ADU standards, detached home-occupation rules, private-road policy, and renaming agricultural to rural districts; members agreed to draft a package for September.
Board members used the latter portion of the meeting to identify topics the board wants the planning board to review as part of a broader zoning ordinance update. The items included a clearer definition of multifamily, ADU requirements (reflecting state changes), detached home-occupation rules, mixed-use provisions, potential renaming of the agricultural district to a rural district while preserving agricultural uses, and dimensional/matrix revisions for residential and commercial districts.
One member described the effort as an "Etch A Sketch" to be shaken up and modernized; the board agreed to prepare a package of suggested changes and vote on it at a future meeting for transmittal to the planning board. Members emphasized the need to track common variance triggers to identify problematic ordinance language and to coordinate with planning for public outreach. The chair said the board will draft the package and place it on the September agenda.
