[MassHistPres] notification of abutters

[Anne Forbes]

The Acton HDC notifies abutters in the same manner--directly adjoining, or 
across the street.   This minimal amount of notification was chosen in order 
to minimize the work load for the commissioners, as there is no staff 
assistance for the commission.  While the Planning Board and other town 
bodies send notices to a wider range of abutters, they require the 
applicants to do it.  When the Acton commission was formed in the early 
1990s, we were strongly urged to put as small a burden on applicants as 
possible--hence the policy of having the commission itself send out the 
notices.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nancy Dole" <ndole at verizon.net>
To: "masshistoric mail list" <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 8:00 PM
Subject: [MassHistPres] notification of abutters


> Hello everyone. The West Tisbury HDC is updating guidelines, application 
> forms, certificate forms. Presently we send a notice of a public hearing 
> on an application to the  directly adjoining abutters only, or owners who 
> would be adjoining abutters if there were no public way between themselves 
> and the applicant.
>
> One of our members thinks we should notify a wider range of abutters... we 
> are wondering what other districts do, and why.
>
> FYI we also put a notice in the newspaper, and post it in Town Hall, and 
> inform the ZBA, Planning Board, Building Inspector, and Town Clerk.
>
> Thank you for your help in this matter, and thank you to all the people 
> who replied to my request for information on how to soften the look of 
> proposed black asphalt walking roadside paths in the district.
>
> Nancy Dole, West Tisbury HDC Secretary
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