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Planning Board streamlines site-plan review: staff review changes, parking rules clarified
Summary
Staff outlined revisions to site-plan review procedures including an initial review/second-meeting flow, retention of development requirements for projects over thresholds, and clarified parking-reduction process; the board agreed to pass amendments along.
Planning staff presented a substantial set of procedural edits to the town's site-plan review ordinance, describing a retained multi-step review for major projects and a streamlined staff-review process for smaller projects. The staff speaker said the core substantive restrictions and responsibilities remain the same but explained that a new flow would provide an initial review followed by a second meeting when necessary, and preserve existing site-plan triggers for projects over thresholds such as 5,000 or 10,000 square feet.
Members also asked about parking-reduction standards and the requirement to notify abutters within 500 feet of a proposed development and publish notice at least 10 days before hearings in a newspaper of general circulation. The board approved forwarding the amended site-plan language; staff will clean up definitions for home-occupation standards and ensure alignment with state building-code occupancy categories.
