<div dir="auto"><div>My advice, always open the hearing, there is a clock that you do not want to miss. So</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1. Read notice opening the hearing;</div><div dir="auto">2. Allow applicant to make request;</div><div dir="auto">3. Board consideration, if there is a large crowd you could consider allowing public input as it could guide what happens at a continued hearing. Board members may also have comments for applicants. </div><div dir="auto">4. Grant continuance.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We have granted many consecutive continuance.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Dan Fortier, AICP </div><div dir="auto">Retired Planner </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 10:39 AM Benson, Rachel via MassPlanners <<a href="mailto:massplanners@masscptc.org">massplanners@masscptc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Looking to get some process information on how your Boards handle public hearing continuances.
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<li class="m_-3838754230406488211MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Do you allow them to continue the opening of the public hearing?
<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="m_-3838754230406488211MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Do you have a max. number of continuances allowed before re-advertisement?
<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="m_-3838754230406488211MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Has your Board ever not approved an applicant’s continuance request? What was the result?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Our Conservation Commission allows up to three continuances in a row without testimony before they require the Applicant to re-advertise but there is nothing in the Planning
Board’s Rules/Regs. We’ve seen recently that Applicants are rushing to get their applications in and then requesting multiple continuances without providing new information. I understand that the Applicant is requesting these continuances, and the Board can
decide not to approve their request, but the Board hasn’t taken that step yet.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Any insight into your process would be greatly appreciated!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Happy Halloween!!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Thank you, and have a great day!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Rachel Benson</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Director of Planning & Economic Development<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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