INFORMATION

Current

Regulatory Audit - The Planning Board has worked with the Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission to conduct a comprehensive regulatory audit. The purpose of conducting this regulatory audit is to ensure that the Master Plan, the document that is meant to guide future land use, is actually being implemented through the existing land use regulations. UVLSPRC reviewed all of the town's documents and assessed how the policies work together as a system and found inconsistencies and gaps. They have created a list of recommendations for the Planning Board giving us guidance on what needs improvement. To see the draft document click below:

Regulatory Audit Results Document - this is a 7.1 MB, PDF document

This is a very comprehensive document that gives us recommendations for bringing our ordinances and regulations into line with the Master plan. We will begin working on this in the fall, in the hopes that we can bring the issues before the town at the 2009 Town Meeting.

Ballot issues at Town Meeting 2008 - At Town Meeting on March 11th, the townspeople voted to pass the Floodplain Management Ordinance and all of Land Use Ordinance additions and definitions, except the change in the frontage requirement, deciding to keep it at 200 feet on road or water.

Storm water information
Cluster Development and Open Space information
Facts About Washington
Ways of Dealing with Growth