Annual Town Meeting

Monday, April 4, 2005 at 6:00 p.m.

Article 26. Transfer LCP Implementation Functions to Planning Board; Abolish LCPIC. To see if the Town will vote to rescind its vote under Article 16 of the April 3, 2000 Annual Town Meeting, which authorized the Board of Selectmen to appoint a Local Comprehensive Plan Implementation Committee (LCPIC) to oversee the implementation of the Local Comprehensive Plan (LCP); and to transfer the LCP implementation function instead to the Planning Board, consistent with the Planning Board’s responsibility under Charter §6-12-4 to “develop and periodically update a master or comprehensive plan, subject to the approval by the town meeting, which shall be utilized as the basis of all major developments in the town, and shall report annually to the town meeting on the status of the plan;” to take any other action relative thereto.

[Requested by the Board of Selectmen]

BOARD OF SELECTMEN RECOMMENDS: 5-0-0

FINANCE COMMITTEE HAS NO RECOMMENDATION

Cheryl Andrews moved that the Town vote to rescind its vote under Article 16 of the April 3, 2000 Annual Town Meeting, which authorized the Board of Selectmen to appoint a Local Comprehensive Plan Implementation Committee (LCPIC) to oversee the implementation of the Local Comprehensive Plan (LCP); and to transfer the LCP implementation function instead to the Planning Board, consistent with the Planning Board’s responsibility under Charter §6-12-4 to “develop and periodically update a master or comprehensive plan, subject to the approval by the town meeting, which shall be utilized as the basis of all major developments in the town, and shall report annually to the town meeting on the status of the plan.”

Motion Passed. (69 For, 60 Against)