<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp2416adccyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="ydp2416adccyiv3845929969"><div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;" class="ydp2416adccyiv3845929969ydpbf567118yahoo-style-wrap"><div><div dir="ltr">Dear Michelle:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Absolutely, that's pretty much our day job.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I harken from the cocktail napkin generation and often tell applicants bring me your plans on the back of a cocktail napkin if necessary to discuss the basic tenets of what you want to do. Because when people spend money on plans with stamps from engineers and surveyors or have counsel to represent them they are less inclined to change their plans because of the dollars they've already spent. Its not unusual to have a second more formal informal meeting with the Conservation, Health Agents and the Building Commissioner if needed to clarify any grey areas.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I learned a long time ago in a town not so far far away that its the Building Commissioner who interprets the bylaw. In the ToK back in the last millennia, a committee and I made some changes to the zoning bylaw not long after I moved here from Atlanter. The changes passed but when applied the Building Inspector/Commissioner had a different take on the language much to everyone's chagrin. After I made my case he said, "that's not what that says." </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Since that time I have always sat with a Building Commissioner with our draft bylaw, explained our intent and handed them a red pen so they could mark up the bylaw so their interpretation matched our intent. Pronouns have morphed but the navigation of building inspector/commissioner/zoning enforcement officers hasn't.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">TBott</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp2416adccyiv3845929969ydpbf567118signature"><div style="font-family:new times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div>Thomas Bott, Interim Carver Town Planner</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><i id="ydp2416adccyiv3845929969ydpfb687fb8yiv6753380931yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519652102965_53159" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font id="ydp2416adccyiv3845929969ydpfb687fb8yiv6753380931yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519652102965_53160" color="#4c76a2">You too could follow me on Twitter @TBottPlimoth but it clearly isn’t necessary</font></i></div></div></div></div>
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On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 03:50:27 PM EDT, Michelle Tyler <mtyler@randolph-ma.gov> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv3845929969"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0000ff;" class="yiv3845929969gmail_default">"Asking" information ---to me -- is different from asking for a DETERMINATION. So I'd say that a Planner could provide information subject to final decision/opinion by whomever is charged with Zoning Enforcement per a community ordinance or bylaw. </div><div><div dir="ltr" class="yiv3845929969gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#a64d79" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1B6j3ietT62Ha2z-7cZV8TtzXLczsUs35&export=download" width="96" height="95"></b></font><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#0000ff"><b>Michelle R. Tyler</b></font><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#0000ff"><b>Director of Planning</b></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#0000ff"><b>Town of Randolph</b></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#0000ff"><b>781-961-0936</b></font></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);"><i><font size="1">Please be advised that the Massachusetts Secretary of State considers e-mail to be a public record, and therefore subject to the Massachusetts Public Records Law, M.G.L. c. 66 § 10.</font></i></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#0000ff"><b><br clear="none"></b></font></div></div></div></div><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv3845929969gmail_quote"><div id="yiv3845929969yqt24312" class="yiv3845929969yqt3185454951"><div dir="ltr" class="yiv3845929969gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 3:44 PM Thomas Bott via MassPlanners <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:massplanners@masscptc.org" href="mailto:massplanners@masscptc.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">massplanners@masscptc.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="yiv3845929969gmail_quote"><div><div style="font-family:new times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;"><span style="font-family:New serif;color:black;">Dear Planners:</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;"><span style="font-family:New serif;color:black;">I am posting the following verbatim on
behalf of the Building Commissioner who's question is from a Building
Commissioner in another town (clearly the names, except for "inspector" and "commissioner" have not been changed):</span></p>
</div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px;"><div style="font-family:new times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;"><span style="font-family:New serif;color:black;">" When a resident
or developer has a zoning related question who is the authority in the
community to answer? Is it the Town Planner or the Building Commissioner/Zoning
Enforcement Officer?"</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:new times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;"><span style="font-family:New serif;">Carver, like most bylaws I have seen, include some provision in the Administration section to wit:</span><br clear="none"></p>
</div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px;"><div style="font-family:new times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;"><i>5100. ADMINISTRATION</i></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family:new times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;"><i>5110. <u>Permits</u>. This
[Zoning] By-Law shall be administered by the Building Inspector.... </i></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family:new times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;"><i>5120. <u>Enforcement</u>.
The Building Inspector shall institute and take any and all such action as may
be necessary to enforce full compliance with any and all of the provisions of
this [Zoning] By-Law and of permits and variances issued thereunder,...</i></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family:new times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr">For the record, the Commish here and I are sympatico on the issue.</div><div dir="ltr">Lemme know: asking for a guy who knows a guy.</div><div dir="ltr">Thanks,</div><div dir="ltr">TBott</div><div style="font-family:new times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><div style="font-family:serif;font-size:16px;"><div>Thomas Bott, Interim Carver Town Planner</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><i id="yiv3845929969gmail-m_-3115251128250572369ydpfb687fb8yiv6753380931yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519652102965_53159" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><font id="yiv3845929969gmail-m_-3115251128250572369ydpfb687fb8yiv6753380931yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519652102965_53160" color="#4c76a2">You too could follow me on Twitter @TBottPlimoth but it clearly isn’t necessary<br clear="none"></font></i></div></div></div></div></div>-- <br clear="none">
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