Planning Board hears Community Preservation Act overview from Sheffield consultant. Acting Chair Jon James, Christian Stovall, and Becky Wilkinson heard Rene Wood explain that the CPA allows towns to impose a 1 to 3 percent property tax surcharge for affordable housing, land conservation, outdoor

Planning Board endorses bylaw recodification with contested piggery classification. Chair Bob Hartt and the board voted four to one (with one abstention by Jordan Archey) to retain language classifying piggeries as a by-right agricultural use, citing the Right to Farm bylaw's inclusion of swine and