Planning Board rushes floodplain bylaw hearing
Rutland Planning Board rushes to vet a floodplain bylaw before a November town meeting.
Planning Board · Meeting of September 8, 2026
Rutland Planning Board rushes to vet a floodplain bylaw before a November town meeting. Chairman Norman Anderson said the Select Board referred the Floodplain Overlay District bylaw directly to his board, bypassing the usual Bylaw Subcommittee review, with a hearing set for September 22 and warrant articles due September 28 ahead of a November 19 special town meeting. The bylaw concerns a private dam at Thayer Pond, now under Massachusetts Water Resources Authority authority, and would restore insurance protection for three homeowners after a similar bylaw was rejected by the state last year.
"I personally am not rubber stamping anything," Anderson said. The board also approved asphalt curbing and a two-trees-per-lot landscaping standard for the Brice-Lemon subdivision, approved its August 11 minutes 2-0-1, and said the Rutland Free Library has denied it meeting space even as other town boards use the building.
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Source: the Planning Board meeting of September 8, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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