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Planning board pushes to digitize town code, add searchable format and interactive zoning map
Summary
Board member Andrew Ragozzino outlined a plan to gather, standardize, and digitize town laws and codes, add quick links for common permits/variance forms, and build an interactive map showing zoning and hamlet delineations to improve public access.
At the Nov. 12 meeting, Planning Board member Andrew Ragozzino presented a multi‑part proposal to organize and publish the town's laws and codes in a single, searchable digital format. He described steps to gather existing laws, prioritize them by popularity and relevance, digitize them uniformly, and create quick links to common documents such as building permit and variance request forms.
Ragozzino also proposed adding an interactive map focused on zoning and hamlet delineations and attaching short plain‑language summaries describing "what most people ask for," with links to the full code text. The minutes record that the board intends to make permit and variance forms available online once the code is digitized.
