August 25, 2025, Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 51 goals of the state plan as much as possible. That's the idea. But it's not prescribed. It doesn't impose what the local Master Plan. MR. HAIZEL: So as we're in the process now of, the end process I guess, of the abatement of the state plan, is there, as we do with local ordinances and things of that sort, is there a requirement or a review to see whether local ordinances contradict or are in conflict with the state plan and it's goals and objectives? THE WITNESS: They don't have -- they have a very small office, they don't have the capacity to view 564 municipalities. So I don't know of any mechanism where it is, you know, gauged against the state plan, but I am sure that if a municipality wanted to have that conversation, they probably could make that happen. But I don't know that it prescribed that it has to happen. MR. HAIZEL: Well, having participated in it way to much myself, there is a process in which there is all local ordinances matched up against the goals and objectives of the state plan and you identify where there is conflict, staff of the state plan Office of Planning Advocacy, does also comment on each. So there is that process where one can indicate whether there is conflict or not. I guess what I'm getting at is --