1/24/2018 BY-LAW REVIEW COMMITTEE Minutes

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Discussion with ZBA members regarding Bylaws impacting ZBA continued &174-33 — Setbacks from water and wetlands. ZBA is proposing deleting the current language and replacing with new verbiage. Under Bylaws, Conservation addresses this .and applying to ZBA is just a duplication of the approval process. This eliminates going to ZBA. X174-37 —Industrial Zone Parking. ZBA is proposing to add a sentence to this bylaw that would allow parking in front of a building in an industrial zone. Jonathan Furbush said it doesn't make sense to not allow parking in the front in an industrial zone. Mike Mendoza said these 5 items that ZBA proposes changing are top priority to be considered because these are repetitious, create duplication, and/or are outdated bylaws that are causing a lot of lost time with meaningless duplication of effort. Ed Larkin said that in view of the urgent need for these bylaw changes, they should go forward with submitting the Articles by the February 12th deadline and present at May Town Meeting for approval. In addition, Ed commented that there was no need for them to have presented to the Bylaw Review Committee for review, since it was up to ZBA to decide submission to May Town Meeting. Mike Mendoza submitted a proposal for a section to be placed in the Zoning Bylaws---- namely, §174-57--Violations and Penalties and a proposal for §174-1 Violation and Penalties to be placed in the General Bylaws. Mike said these suggested proposed changes, along with other suggested changes he made at an earlier meeting with Bylaw Review Committee, can wait for submission by Bylaw Review Committee to Town Meeting. Finally, Mike again repeated his suggestion that the Bylaw Review Committee review the Zoning Bylaw Table of Use Regulations §174-25 (Page 31) since so many of these prohibit use in industrial zone that are not logical. He left 4 pages from the Use Table with some of the areas highlighted for the Bylaw Review Committee's reference. Subdivision Board of A eals Committee Ed asked Jonathan Furbush and Bill Blaisdell if they were in agreement that §3-44 of the General Bylaws appointing a Subdivision Board of Appeals Committee be deleted since that committee has never met, Both Jonathan and Bill agreed it should be deleted. Ed thanked Mike Mendoza, Jonathan Furbush and Bill Blaisdell for coming to the meeting and for everything they did in putting the draft Articles together for May Town Meeting. 2