Published: 4/18/2018 6:02:50 PM
As the May ballot approaches, the Planning Board is in its final days of explaining its zoning overhaul to the public, and the board is receiving mixed reactions.
The board has several amendments on the ballot this year, the most comprehensive of which is its “zoning simplification” amendment. While its aim is to streamline the code, the amendment itself is the longest and most complex of the ones proposed by the board this year, and will have the most impact on what types of building can go on in town.
The “simplification” piece of the ordinance is that it makes the zoning more uniform, taking the existing districts and overlays and making them into more packaged districts. While some regulations are changing, many of them will stay the same for those areas, such as what uses are allowed there.