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Charleston Planning Board reviews comprehensive plan draft, hears Begley Road development proposal
Summary
At its Oct. 8 meeting the Town of Charleston Planning Board approved routine items, reviewed a draft comprehensive plan and outreach schedule, and heard a proposal to develop a Begley Road property into a lodge and 10–15 tourist cabins; questions remain about an abandoned road and subdivision requirements.
The Town of Charleston Planning Board met Oct. 8, 2025; Chair David Wiener called the meeting to order at 6:57 p.m. Board members recorded attendance, heard no public comments, and moved to approve the agenda and last month’s minutes (motions noted in the minutes). The meeting adjourned at 7:56 p.m.
Board members reviewed a draft comprehensive plan submitted by the consultant and said the Comprehensive Plan Committee will meet with Amy next week to suggest adjustments; the committee reported that survey responses are not fully tallied and that a community bus tour connected to the plan is scheduled for Saturday with a 9 a.m. departure (participants asked to arrive at 8:45 a.m.). The board discussed work to identify hamlet boundaries as part of plan outreach.
The meeting also addressed code changes: the board will examine creating a Town of Charleston Unified Subdivision Code modeled on the Town of Glen; Andrew Ragozzino and John Scrima were named as the committee to draft that code and the board tabled further discussion until its November meeting.
In new business the board heard a presentation from representatives for buyer and property owner Michael Hulskotter about a parcel on Begley Road. Presenters described a concept that includes an owner-occupied house, a lodge with a large kitchen, a separate bathhouse, and roughly 10–15 small cabins or yurts intended for tourists as an agritourism venture. Cabins were described as approximately 150–200 square feet, placed about 50–100 feet from a central bathhouse with a stated 200-foot maximum separation. Representatives also raised an irregular or abandoned road on the property and asked the board to determine whether the right-of-way is town-owned; they said that if it is, the owner would build and maintain that section and that the town would not take maintenance responsibility.
The transcript records motions to approve the agenda (moved by Amanda Peterson, seconded by Andrew Ragozzino) and to approve last month’s minutes (moved by Donna Wakefield, seconded by Andrew Ragozzino); the minutes do not record roll-call tallies or explicit vote outcomes.
