Belchertown Planning Board Votes to Send Zoning Changes to Town Meeting
Belchertown Planning Board sends industrial zoning changes to Town Meeting, endorses Cottage Street lot split 5-0.
Planning Board · Meeting of September 8, 2026
Belchertown Planning Board sends industrial zoning changes to Town Meeting, endorses Cottage Street lot split 5-0. Vice Chair Elizabeth Pols and Town Planner Doug Albertson untangled ownership records on a Cottage Street ANR for Margaret and Stephen Lanphear before the board's 5-0-0 endorsement of the plan, which shifts land between a family trust and Cottage Grove LLC. The board added a special permit requirement for new commercial parking areas and garages in industrial zones before unanimously recommending the schedule-of-uses amendment to Town Meeting.
"Doug was right when he said it wasn't as complicated as it looked," Pols said. Members also paid a $171.50 advertising bill, approved August 25 minutes, and heard updates on stalled Woodland Lane flood-repair documentation and a new town economic development planner, Eric Weiss.
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Source: the Planning Board meeting of September 8, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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