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Officials say zoning must be updated before master plan work can resume
Summary
A planning-board member asked if funds were included to update the town master plan; a town official responded that no money is in the 2026 budget because the zoning code must be updated first and prior master-plan funds were not spent.
During public input at the Nov. 6 hearing, a planning-board speaker asked about funding for the town master plan update. A town presenter said there is no money in the 2026 budget for a master-plan update because the town needs to update zoning first.
"There's no money in for the master plan because we have to update the zoning before we can move on to the master plan," the presenter said, and the meeting record shows $10,000 had been put into the master plan in the prior year but not used. The presenter and the planning-board speaker discussed holding a Zoom meeting to begin preliminary work but confirmed the zoning update must precede a full master-plan process.
The exchange clarifies sequencing for the planning process and signals that additional budget requests or a separate appropriation will be needed before a full master-plan update can proceed.
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