Planning Board

Planning Board receives federal floodplain bylaw mandate after 45-year compliance gap. Joy Duperault, Director of the Massachusetts Flood Hazard Management Program and State NFIP Coordinator, presented the board with a 25-page FEMA-approved template containing 19 mandatory elements, including

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

Planning Board votes down Historic Commission proposal for village construction review. The four-member board present, Chair Bob Hartt, Jordan Archey, Christian Stovall, and Becky Wilkinson, rejected the measure on grounds that mandatory Historic Commission input could worsen affordable housing