By Mike Rego
At the end of its most recent meeting held Wednesday night, Sept. 17, the zoning board held a first substantive discussion on the possibility of combining it with the planning board to form one, single review entity in the town since the council broached subject at its forum the week prior.
While the council's talks were in the very preliminary stages, members did decide to investigate the matter further by tasking Town Solicitor Anthony DeSisto to provide more detail in the near term, whether that be at its regularly scheduled forum in October or potentially a special workshop session next month.
DeSisto told the council in early September of the need to expedite the process if indeed it intended to pursue a merger of the zoning and planning boards because of the administr